Modernizing Legacy Job Requirements: Lessons from Contra Costa County
HR leaders and analysts from Contra Costa County shared how they're systematically auditing legacy requirements at scale

Are outdated job requirements hiding compliance risks in your classification specs? In this session, HR leaders and analysts from Contra Costa County—a complex organization with over 12,000 employees and nearly 1,300 class specs—shared how they're systematically auditing legacy requirements at scale.
Starting with driver's license mandates under SB 1100, a high-risk area facing increased legal scrutiny across California, the session covered:
• Why legacy requirements (licenses, degrees, certifications) pose growing organizational and legal risk - and how Contra Costa reframed the work as both a compliance and equity initiative
• How the team moved from slow, one-off spec reviews to identifying and prioritizing all 1,300+ classes for audit using AI-powered bulk analysis, with live walkthroughs of tool functionality
• The human side of rolling out changes - from internal department pushback to union notifications and building defensible documentation
• How AI supports analyst judgment without replacing it, and how the county is validating AI outputs against prior comp study results
Missed the webinar? Reach out below, and Holly will provide a custom analysis on your driver's license requirement status across your specifications — assessing what percentage have unnecessary or SB 1100 non-compliant barriers to hiring. SB 1100 is a new requirement on California agencies treating unnecessary license requirements as a potential form of employment discrimination. Holly's report generation capabilities accelerate the effective review of classifications to ensure compliant and inclusive workplaces.
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