A. 
The classified service shall include all positions which are now or hereafter created, designated within a collective bargaining agreement; and any other position designated and/or established by the Town Council, except positions under the control of the Board of Education, Water and Sewer Commission, and Housing Authority. The Mayor shall negotiate all such collective bargaining agreements on behalf of the Town, and shall employ a professional labor negotiator to provide assistance. All such agreements shall become effective upon ratification by resolution of the Town Council.
B. 
It shall be the duty of the Mayor to cause to be prepared a statement of the duties and responsibilities of each position in the classified service and of the minimum qualifications for appointment to such positions. These statements shall comprise the classification plan of the Town, which shall become effective upon approval by resolution of the Town Council. A pay plan for all positions in the classified service shall be similarly prepared, adopted and amended. New or additional positions in the classified service may be created, and changes in the duties and responsibilities of existing positions may be made by resolution of the Town Council.
The Mayor shall also cause to have prepared a set of personnel rules which shall provide, among other things, for the method for determining the merit and fitness of candidates for appointment or promotion, administration of the classification plan, probationary periods of employment, hours of work, vacations, sick leaves and other leaves of absence, attendance regulations, provisional appointments, inservice training programs, grievance procedures, including procedures for the hearing of grievances by the Town Council which shall render final decisions based on its findings to the Mayor with a copy to the aggrieved employee; periodic supervisory performance valuation; removals; and such other rules as may be necessary to provide for the handling of the personnel affairs of the Town. Such rules and any amendments thereto shall become effective upon approval by resolution of the Town Council. Copies of such rules and any amendments thereto shall be distributed to all employees of the Town. The said set of rules shall contain a provision for the adoption of the sexual harassment policies pursuant to the provisions of Section 46a-60 of the Connecticut General Statutes, as amended, and any other harassment policy authorized under the Connecticut General Statutes.
Any elected or appointed Town official, or any Town employee, who has a financial interest, direct or indirect, in any matter to be acted upon or coming before his board, commission or office, shall make full record disclosure in writing of that interest which shall be incorporated in the minutes of the particular board, commission, or office, and a full copy of such minutes shall be filed in the office of the Town Clerk, and he shall be disqualified to act in any way upon such matter. Violation of this section with knowledge, express or implied, of any person or corporation participating in such matter or decision shall be an additional ground of appeal which will nullify the action of such board, commission, or office, upon appeal to the appropriate court under the statutes applicable to appeals from such boards, commissions, or offices. Violations of provisions of this section by any officer or employee shall constitute grounds for dismissal. Nothing contained herein shall be intended to limit the scope or applicability of the Code of Ethics to be adopted by ordinance of the Town Council pursuant to the provisions of § C308 of this Charter.
The Town Council may provide by ordinance a system of retirement allowances for the Town's regular, full-time paid employees, and for contributions by employees and the Town to a fund from which such allowances shall be paid. The Town may enter into contract with any company or institution authorized to do business in this state for the purpose of insuring the whole or any part of its retirement plan; elect to participate in the Connecticut Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund; elect to participate in the old-age and survivors' insurance system under Title II of the Social Security Act, in accordance with provisions of Part II of Chapter 113 of the General Statutes, as amended[1]; or elect any combination thereof. The Town Council may authorize the transfer of the management and investment of the Town's pension funds to any fiduciary institution chartered or licensed to operate in the State of Connecticut under the provisions of the General Statutes, as amended.
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Editor's Note: See C.G.S. § 7-425 et seq.
No Town employee, appointed official, or applicant for employment by the Town shall be employed, promoted, reduced, removed, or in any way favored or discriminated against because of his race, religion, political affiliations, national origin, sex, marital status, or any other reason unconnected with the performance of the duties of the position.
The Town Council shall approve all salaries and benefits and changes of salaries and benefits of all employees in the classified and nonclassified services of the Town of Montville. Boards and commissions may recommend to the Town Council for approval, salaries and benefits or changes of salaries and benefits for all administrative employees appointed by or directly responsible to said boards and commissions. The salaries and benefits must be in conformity with a systematic pay and benefit plan for the positions involved; provided nothing herein shall be construed to limit the power of the Board of Education to fix compensation of professional employees of the school system.
All members of the classified service shall have all of the political rights and shall be subject to all the political prohibitions as set out in Connecticut General Statutes § 7-421, as amended.