Originally Posted by CaptainProp
What are these cat based on??
Maybe
this will explain how the classifications are decided. The bit I love most of all (bearing in mind that our current Deputy Prime Minister is in social group 1) is that:
the two main concepts of the classification remain unchanged:
kind of work performed - job, and
the competent performance of the tasks and duties - skill.
Apparently, classification in future will decided using
The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification:
The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification Analytic Classes
1 Higher managerial and professional occupations
1.1 Large employers and higher managerial occupations
1.2 Higher professional occupations
2 Lower managerial and professional occupations
3 Intermediate occupations
4 Small employers and own account workers
5 Lower supervisory and technical occupations
6 Semi-routine occupations
7 Routine occupations
8 Never worked and long-term unemployed
Basically, it all comes down to
whether an employer, self-employed or employee; whether a supervisor; number of employees at the workplace
which explains why every office bod now needs at least one "assistant".
I suppose the real question is which class do we
think we should be in? Let me begin.... Whichever class it is, it can't be the same one as Estate agents and it's GOT to be above "Senior officials in national government" and "Senior officials in local government", otherwise that puts us in line with the criminal class.