And while U.S. companies in general follow the seniority level limits, compensation ranges for the local Chinese companies are not posted because there are simply too many exceptions.
In 2009, a group of prominent law professors drafted and sent to Congress a proposal for limiting a Supreme Court justice to seven years as chief justice, much as the chief judges of the lower federal courts, where judges become chief through seniority, are limited by law to a single seven-year term.
To get the best teachers for difficult schools, limiting seniority is only a partial solution.
"On the Retirement Road, 65 Is Still Their Limit" (Seniority, Jan . 2, by Fred Brock, suggested that raising the retirement age to 70 would be difficult for Americans whose jobs required hard physical labor -- construction workers, for example.
He also altered the seniority system to limit the effect of job cuts at schools with large numbers of less-experienced instructors, who are generally the first to be laid off.
His/her seniority may have limited incentives for risk-taking and entrepreneurship.
Jill S. Levy, president of the union, the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, said the main sticking points were salaries and the city's demands to limit certain seniority rights of assistant principals.
The survey dings states, including California, for preserving seniority rules for teachers and limiting charter-school growth.
Under a pair of bills moving through the Indiana General Assembly, teachers would have to earn "professional" status based on evaluations tied to student learning, and their collective bargaining would be limited to salary, not seniority rules.
Yet the Atlanta factory still has union work rules guaranteeing that workers with the most seniority receive the easiest jobs, a system that limits management's flexibility.
