Aug 6, 2009 01:06
14 yrs ago
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Spanish term

Compactar las categorias

Spanish to English Bus/Financial Human Resources
This sort of context:

La realidad es que debemos buscar una reforma a la ley laboral en el caso de los escalafones para establecerlos por capacitación, "esa sí es una medida de flexibilidad para tener talento en las empresas", acotó.

En entrevista sostuvo que hay una tendencia en las empresas de bajar su pirámide de puestos, y "compactar las categorías" para tener mejores sueldos, pues está comprobado que harán mejores funciones.

Discussion

Ray Ables (asker) Aug 6, 2009:
more context Thank you for your prompt replies. In the actual text I am translating, involving a union forced to agree to company stipulations, it says "...les impuso un convenio para que no tomaran descansos obligatorios como marca la ley y les compactó las categorías; luego los enfrentó con los supervisores..."

Maybe: eliminated management positions, or seniority positions... strange expression. Has to do with putting all of the workers on the same level

Proposed translations

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streamline/amalgamate positions/job categories

maybe ....

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or: merge

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I think "merge" is the idea in a corporate context ...
Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard
3 hrs
agree Ruth Ramsey : Yes, or "reduce the number of job categories".
7 hrs
agree argosys
9 hrs
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level/even out the (different) categories

In this context, it sounds strange to state "flatten" or "crush"

Mike :)
Peer comment(s):

agree Richard Boulter
1 hr
Thank you, Richard - Mike :)
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7 hrs

compress/combine job classifications

or maybe even reducing the breadth of job classifications..
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10 hrs

rationalize/streamline the categories

As I'd prefer to put it.
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