Sample Job Descriptions at HR.BLR.com Make Human Resources Administration Easier

With job descriptions essential to so many human resource functions, its particularly important that companies take the time to update their organizations descriptions. BLR's HR.BLR.com has hundreds of sample descriptions to make that task easier.

Old Saybrook, CT (PRWEB) January 10, 2005 -- If your company has not updated its job descriptions lately, it might be an unpleasant surprise to compare them with the actual work performed by employees today. With job descriptions essential to so many human resource functions, its particularly important that companies take the time to update their organizations descriptions.

Ive never run into anyone who has admitted liking to write job descriptions," says Martin Simon, legal editorat HR.BLR.com, State HR Answers and Tools Online. But these tools, sometimes called position descriptions, are critical to effective and legal human resource administration."

Sample job descriptions can drive recruitment campaigns, set expectations for new workers, establish salary grade levels for groups of jobs, and align individual goals and activities with an organizations strategic objectives. A good job description follows a simple but consistent format that describes key roles played by that job, as well as essential functions." A job description should not set physical tasks that would run into compliance problems with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

ADA compliance is one standard when creating job descriptions, but its in the area of compliance with the FLSAs new overtime regulations where job descriptions have increased in importance," Simon stressed. If written correctly, the job description should clearly list the skills required. Using the duties in that document, along with salary data and knowledge of the new overtime regulations, it should be easy to substantiate to the Department of Labor (DOL) that a job be considered exempt or nonexempt from overtime." The DOL goes further on this point: The exempt or nonexempt status of any particular employee must be determined on the basis of whether the employees salary and duties meet the requirements of the regulations."

Hundreds of sample job descriptions
Writing job descriptions takes valuable time from other important HR tasks, which is why they are frequently overlooked. Fortunately at www.HR.BLR.com there are several hundred sample job descriptions, plus HR checklists, forms, letters, and state HR analysis. Employers may obtain a free copy of an HR.BLR.com article that summarizes job descriptions importance at http://www.blr.com/82008400/jobs.cfm.

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