Plant and Laboratory Nonprofessional Personnel

Plant and lab people in the chemical and plastics industries must be hired after a careful screening to ensure that only those who are particularly conscientious in following established operating procedures are hired. Furthermore, these attitudes must be fostered by training and supervisory reinforcement. Willful disobedience of these procedures or a negligent attitude cannot be tolerated and appropriate disciplinary procedures followed, including (if warranted) dismissal. 

Since plant and lab employees are expected to be a cut above other nonprofessionals, they should be paid more than an average wage for parallel jobs in the area. Nonprofessional persoimel tend to be less mobile than professionals are, so that compensation needs to be compared against the area or regional levels in the industry (effectively there are no national levels per se). You do not want to lose people that have taken much time and money to find, hire, and train. 

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