[R.O. 1957, 5:4-1, adopted Dec. 1, 1969]
(a) 
The City Administrator shall make or cause to be made an analysis of the duties and responsibilities of all full-time positions in the City except his own position.
(b) 
He shall recommend to the Mayor for transmission to the Council a position classification plan. The salary and wage schedule adopted by Council shall identify the position classification. Within thirty (30) days after adoption of such salary and wage schedule, the City Administrator shall assign each employee to an appropriate class in accordance with such schedule and with the approval of the Civil Service Department of the State of New Jersey.
[R.O. 1957, 5:4-2, adopted Dec. 1, 1969]
(a) 
Each employee shall be assigned or allocated to an appropriate job classification on the basis of the kind and level of his duties and responsibilities to the end that all positions in the same job class shall be sufficiently alike to permit the use of a single descriptive title, the same tests of competence and the same salary range, thus carrying out the basic principle of classification which is equal pay for equal work.
(b) 
A job class may contain one (1) position or a number of positions. The City Administrator shall from time to time review the job classes and submit a report thereof to the Mayor.
[1]
State law reference: As to classification of employees, standards of salaries or wages, see N.J.S.A. 11:24-1 et seq.
[R.O. 1957, 5:4-3, adopted Dec. 1, 1969]
(a) 
The position classification plan may be amended from time to time by the Council upon recommendation of the Mayor and the City Administrator with approval of the Civil Service Department of the State of New Jersey. Such changes may result from the need for creating new positions, changes in organization, or changes in assigned duties and responsibilities.
(b) 
The City Administrator shall review all requests for creation of new positions, the abolition or consolidation of present positions, reclassification of positions to different job classes, or the reallocation of positions to new salary ranges. In such review, he shall study the current duties and responsibilities of the position concerned and take appropriate action, with the approval of the Civil Service Department of the State of New Jersey, necessary to insure the correct classification and allocation of the position.
(c) 
Each Department Director shall report to the City Administrator any changes in his organization or assignment of duties and responsibilities to a given employee which would result in changes in the position classification plan or in the classification of any of the positions in his department.
(d) 
An employee may submit a request in writing to the City Administrator at any time for a review of the duties and responsibilities of his position. Such a request shall be submitted through his division head and shall include the employee's own description of his current duties and responsibilities. The City Administrator shall then make an investigation of the position to determine his correct allocation. He shall report his findings in writing to the Mayor and furnish a copy to the employee requesting the review and to his Department Director.
(e) 
An employee may submit a request for a review of the duties and responsibilities of his position directly to the Civil Service Department of the State of New Jersey.
[R.O. 1957, 5:44, adopted Dec. 1, 1969]
(a) 
A position may be abolished or the number of personnel reduced by the Council for reasons of economy or for reasons of a reorganization within a Department or Departments.
(b) 
A permanent employee must receive a written notice of such action forty-five (45) days prior to its effective date.
(c) 
Every effort shall be made by the City in cooperation with the Civil Service Department of the State of New Jersey to reassign any affected permanent employee to another position in the City's service for which the employee may be qualified. If no such position is available immediately, the name of the affected employee shall be kept on a special reemployment list and he must be offered employment should a vacancy occur in a position for which he is qualified prior to taking applications for the vacancy.
(d) 
If an employee is demoted because of economy or departmental reorganization, he shall be placed in the new salary range at a step no lower than the step he held in his prior position before demotion.
[1]
State law reference: As to abolition of Police or Fire Divisions positions, see N.J.S.A. 40:11-10 et seq.