22nd November 2005, 10:16 AM
Corporate grades clearly cause aggravation to a lot of people and therefore warrant attention. Grading serves a purpose particularly to those outside the profession as a signal to what that individual can do, and as such a split system would commend achivement of both office and field based skills. If the IFA is to get more members, offering excavators the chance for recognition is an obvious measure. I would tend to prefer this method, because under a MIFA(date) method we wouldn't eliminate the obstacle of distinguishing site activity from office activity and the percieved or actual problem of site directors/managers with minimal experience would persist. Playing devils advocate, the obvious problem of periods unemployed/long term illness/career breaks etc would make the system unwieldy.
The original point of the question was to demonstrate that it is quite difficult to split site assistants based on their duties alone, and I think the ideas which have resulted were worth the thread and resulting debate, which I hope will continue.
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The original point of the question was to demonstrate that it is quite difficult to split site assistants based on their duties alone, and I think the ideas which have resulted were worth the thread and resulting debate, which I hope will continue.
Haec olim meminisse iuvabit