Job profiles: labour-law risks and grouping into wage categories

ABSTRACT

Job profiles are an important personnel management tool. This note provides an analysis of job profiles by applying cooperative game theory. In particular, job profiles are explored for two main purposes. First, are there labour-law risks that occur based on the tasks mentioned in the job profile? In a second step, what is the impact of a task to the grouping of the entire job profile into wage categories? With this analysis, it is possible to determine the share of the labour costs caused by the task. The new analytical framework helps to understand the interaction of the different tasks in job profiles from a new perspective.

KEYWORDS:

• Job profiles
• labour-law risks
• grouping into wage categories
• cooperative game theory
• Shapley value

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• C71
• K31
• M52

Acknowledgments

I thank Arbeitsplatzbewertung team and B-Check team for inspiring discussions. In addition, I am grateful to an anonymous referee for valuable comments.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

¹ Public employees in German states (Laender) are paid by the Framework Collective Agreement for Federal States (German abbreviation: TV-L). Public employees of the federal government and municipalities are paid by the so-called TVöD. Based on this framework, many in-house wage agreements in institutions of public law (German abbreviation: AöR) are contracted.

² BetrVG: Betriebsverfassungsgesetz, English: Works Constitution Act.

MaRisk: Mindestanforderungen an das Risikomanagement, English: Minimum Risk Management Requirements (Publisher: Federal Financial Supervisory Authority).

³ A current short compilation is given by Schmitt-Rolfes (2019).

⁴ TzBfG: Teilzeit- und Befristungsgesetz, English: Act on Part-Time Work and Fixed-Term Employment.

BEEG: Bundeselterngeld- und Elternzeitgesetz, English: Act on Parental Allowance and Parental Leave.

PflegeZG: Pflegezeitgesetz, English: Home Care Leave Act.

SGB VI: Sozialgesetzbuch, English: Social Security Code.

AltTZG: Altersteilzeitgesetz, English: Semi-retirement Act.

WissZeitVG: Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, English: Fixed-Term Employment Act for Academic Staff.:

⁵ For example, an E10 according to TV-L in the administrative service requires an activity of at least one third of which stands out from pay group 9b case group 1 due to its particular difficulty and importance.