3rd August 2011, 01:55 PM
From what I understand of employment law, job titles do not have any status.
It is the job as it is constituted which is important and protected. This is what prevents employers from changing your job title slightly and using the change as an excuse to get rid of you. If your job description changes (by a certain percentage), you might have to reapply for your own job, but your job title can change underneath you as long as the job description stays the same.
You could just as easily have a hierarchy of pay grades which goes:
Entry level 1
entry level 2
middle manager 1
middle manager 2
senior manager
director
but it wouldn't mean very much without some accompanying stuff about levels of responsibility.
It is the job as it is constituted which is important and protected. This is what prevents employers from changing your job title slightly and using the change as an excuse to get rid of you. If your job description changes (by a certain percentage), you might have to reapply for your own job, but your job title can change underneath you as long as the job description stays the same.
You could just as easily have a hierarchy of pay grades which goes:
Entry level 1
entry level 2
middle manager 1
middle manager 2
senior manager
director
but it wouldn't mean very much without some accompanying stuff about levels of responsibility.