Where classifications obscure meaningful differences, the risk is that regulation becomes either overinclusive or ineffective, imposing burdens that do not address actual risks while failing to account for those that do.
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Susie Violet Ward,
Forbes.com,
19 Jan. 2026
The Newsom administration also touted its efforts to streamline the number of state job classifications in use as a means to speed up the state’s notorious slow hiring process.
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