Worker Classification Code | Jombone Help Center

📌 Why This Matters

Clients with workforces spanning multiple risk classifications need to report hours by classification code. Jombone lets you maintain a list of codes per client and carry the right one from the job order down to each employment.

This helps you:

✅ Track hours accurately by classification for workers' compensation and labor reporting
🔁 Set a code once on the job order so it carries to every employment created from it
⚙️ Override the code for an individual employment without affecting the job order or other employments

👥 Who Can Access This

Available to any staffing company user/client user with access to Client/Company Settings, Job Orders, or Employments.

📌 Where to Find It

Client/Company Settings: Clients → [Client] → Staffing Settings → Worker Classification Codes
Job Order: Post New Job Order or Edit Job Order → Step 7 (Staffing Settings)
Employments: Start Employment or Edit Employment popup

🧭 How To: Manage Codes on a Client

Go to Client (Company) Settings → Staffing Settings → Worker Classification Codes.

Field	Description	Validation Message
Code	🔹 Mandatory 🔹 Max 10 characters 🔹 Characters, numbers & special characters allowed	🔴 “Please enter a code” if blank 🔴 “Maximum 10 characters are allowed”
Code Name	🔹 Mandatory 🔹 Max 50 characters 🔹 Characters, numbers & special characters allowed	🔴 “Please enter a code name” if blank 🔴 “Maximum 50 characters are allowed”
Description	🔹 Mandatory 🔹 Max 100 characters 🔹 Characters, numbers & special characters allowed	🔴 “Please enter a description” if blank 🔴 “Maximum 100 characters are allowed”

✏️ Edit a Classification Code

If a code already exists:

Click the 🖉 Edit icon beside the entry.
The Code, Code Name and Description fields will be pre-filled with existing values.
Update as needed and click 🟦 Save.

🚫 A code linked to an active employment can't be deleted — you'll see an error message instead.

🧭 How To: Assign a Code to a Job Order

Open Post New Job Order or Edit Job Order.
Go to Step 7 (Staffing Settings).
Below the Fixed Hourly/Monthly Bill Rate checkboxes, select a code from the Worker Classification Code dropdown.
Save the job order.

⚙️ This field is optional — you can save a job order with no code selected. 🔁 Cloning a job order does not carry over its classification code — the clone starts with none selected.

🧭 How To: Assign or Override a Code When Starting an Employment

Trigger Start Employment for a candidate on a job order.
In the popup, find the Worker Classification Code dropdown below Paid Time Off.
If the job order has a code, it's pre-selected (shown as "— None —" if not).
Keep, change, or clear the code, then click Start.

🧭 How To: Update the Code on an Existing Employment

Open Edit Employment.
Find the Worker Classification Code dropdown below Cost Center.
Change or clear the code as needed.
Save your changes.

💡 There's no lock on this field — you can change or clear the code at any time, and no history of past values is kept.

🧠 Key Points to Remember

🔠 Code values are case-sensitive — "WC-01" and "wc-01" are treated as different codes; exact duplicates are blocked
📏 Code names are optional, up to 50 characters
👤 Each employment links to only one code at a time — no history is kept
🚫 A code in use by an active employment can't be deleted; renaming is always allowed
📊 Existing reports are unaffected — the Bulk Time Upload Report's Workers Comp Code column works the same as today
🔓 No role or permission changes — access follows your existing Client Settings, Job Order, and Employment permissions

💡 Tips

🗂️ Set the code at the job order level first — it saves you from re-selecting it on every employment you start from that job order
🔍 If a code you expect to delete won't go away, check whether it's still linked to an active employment