Case: Labor Arbitration/Job Classification (Arb.)

Arbitrator Paul D. Roose ruled that Oakland Unified School District violated its CBA by misclassifying the grievant as a job coach instead of a higher-paid case manager, since, among other things, there was little evidence differentiating the positions, and the business cards of both positions identified them as “employment specialists.” He found that had the district performed a desk audit as promised, the grievant likely would have been reclassified as a case manager, as over half of her job coach duties were “at another level,” if that had occurred she wouldn’t have been laid off in 2019, and the district ...