We addressed the vocational expert equivocation about the four-and-four sit-stand option in
Vocational Experts Will Say Anything. We continue that discussion by looking at the O*NET information about the occupational group of
Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers, to which the sample maker belongs.
To recap, the vocational expert testified that our non-English-speaking claimant could go back to work as a sample maker with a sit-stand option and the inflexible four hours each, maximum. The O*NET says this:
According to the O*NET, this occupational group requires continuous or almost continuous sitting in 27% of jobs; sitting more than half the time in 15% of jobs; and less than half the time in 13% of jobs. In 40% of the jobs, the worker must sit about half the time. Curious, the O*NET reports:
We have slightly different reports about sitting as opposed to standing about half the time. The reasonable explanation comes from the other primary exertional activity -- walking.
The question asked about occasional bending, stooping, squatting and kneeling. The O*NET reports:
A significant percentage of postural activities are unaccounted for.
We can end this piece of the inquiry with the language problem. The occupation as generally performed:
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English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
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The concept of "as generally performed" has limited definition in
Social Security Ruling 82-61. A fair question inquires whether less than half constitutes "as generally performed" or the word used by the ruling, "ordinarily." More on that later.
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