Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)

[Steve Rutherford]

West Virginia APCO needs your support!!

We are working with APCO International to revise the SOC of 911 Dispatchers from Secretary to Public Safety Telecommunicators.

The Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) is one of several classification systems established by the federal government to ensure coordination of federal statistical activities. In its current version, 9-1-1 professionals are identified as “Police, Fire, and Ambulance Dispatchers” and classified as “Office and Administrative Support Occupations.”

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) coordinates the SOC. In 2014, OMB initiated a revision for the 2018 SOC. The SOC Policy Committee (SOCPC) was established, consisting of representatives from nine federal agencies, to review public comments and make recommendations to OMB.

The occupations in the SOC are classified at four levels: major group, minor group, broad occupation, and detailed occupation. What APCO would describe as “Public Safety Telecommunicators” are currently categorized as “Police, Fire, and Ambulance Dispatchers”:

43-0000 Office and Administrative Support Occupations

43-5000 Material Recording, Scheduling, Dispatching, and Distributing Workers

43-5030 Dispatchers

43-5031 Police, Fire, and Ambulance Dispatchers

For more information about the SOC, including a timeline of the revision process, click here.

(The SOC does not have a direct legal relationship to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Reclassification in the SOC would not, by itself, open the door for different treatment under FLSA.)

 

 

For complete details following the link: https://www.apcointl.org/advocacy/topics/soc-revision.html

 

Call to Action Page: https://www.votervoice.net/mobile/APCO/Campaigns/47568/Respond

 

This Call to Action will allow you to very quickly enter basic information and will automatically submit a letter on your behalf to the SOC petitioning them for a revision in the classification of Dispatchers.

 

Thank you for your consideration and taking the time to participate!!

 

 

       

            

 

                     WV APCO - Chapter President

 

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