A.
The specifications herein provided shall apply to
all existing authorized offices, positions and employments or such
as have been established or created in the classified civil service
in the Village and shall supersede all groupings of employments not
consistent thereto and shall be applied subject to the conditions
in these regulations.
B.
The specifications herein provided shall not in themselves
be construed to define or prescribe the organization or procedure
under which employees shall work, nor to limit or restrict the responsible
administrative officials in exercising supervision or assigning such
other duties as may be in the interest of good administration or necessary
in case of emergency, nor shall it limit or restrict such officials
from transferring employees from one department to another or causing
an employee to work in more than one department, provided that this
article shall not be interpreted as authorization to assign, detail
or transfer an employee to a position involving duties of an essentially
different character.
A.
The standard titles as set forth in Schedule 1[1] shall be applied to all existing offices, positions and
employments in the classified civil service of the Village. Changes
in titles shall not alter or affect the salaries of the present incumbents
of offices or positions so rearranged.
[1]
Editor's Note: Schedule 1 is on file in the
Village offices.
B.
The standard title shall be used to designate positions
in all reports to the State Department of Civil Service, department
records and all payrolls or accounts of salaries and wages of all
departments, institutions and commissions submitted to the State Department
of Civil Service for check and certification.
All departmental requests for additions to or
changes in the specifications involving either the classification
or compensation schedules, together with full reporting of maintenance
requests, shall be first presented to the Village Manager, who shall,
as he deems proper, forward the requests, together with his recommendations,
to the State Department of Civil Service for investigation and consideration.
No reclassifications, changes in compensation schedules or maintenance
allowances shall be effective until they have received the approval
of both the Village Manager and the State Department of Civil Service.
When new positions are to be created, there
shall be submitted by the department head through the Village Manager
to the State Department of Civil Service a statement of the duties,
qualification requirements and other matters affecting the proper
classification, title, grade and compensation and the necessity for
the creation of such position. No office or employment shall be considered
new unless the duties thereof are found to be substantially different
from those of every other existing position in the classified service
of the Village. When the State Department of Civil Service shall find
that an office or employment is in fact new or that the requested
changes affecting any existing position should be made, it shall so
classify such position under the appropriate service, grade and title,
and it shall become a part of the classification of the Village upon
approval by the Village Manager and the State Department of Civil
Service.
A.
Appointments to newly created or vacant offices or
employments shall be made at the lowest rate within the standard range
of compensation for such office or employment. In cases of promotion
where the employee to be promoted is receiving compensation equal
to or greater than the minimum rate established for the position to
which promotion is to be made, appointment shall be made at the nearest
next salary rate higher than the compensation received by such employee.
B.
All new employees shall be appointed at the minimum
rate established for such position.
A.
Advancement to the next higher rate within the range
of compensation provided for a particular position shall be conditional
upon service at each rate for at least the period specified in the
schedules[1] or later determined upon by the Village Manager and upon
satisfactory efficiency in the performance of the specified duties.
[1]
Editor's Note: The schedules are on file in
the Village offices.
B.
Nothing in this article, the rules of the State Department
of Civil Service or the action of the Village Council in adopting
the classification and salary standardization plan shall be construed
to mean that it shall be mandatory upon the head of the department,
institution or commission to advance an officer or employee to the
next higher rate within the range of compensation provided for the
position merely because such officer or employee has served at the
lower salary rate for a certain period of time.
C.
Promotions from one class to the next higher class
of positions in the classified civil service shall involve a change
of duties and shall be made only when a vacancy has been created by
resignation, transfer, death or dismissal or when the needs of the
service require additional employees in the higher position.
A.
Advance in compensation from rate to rate within the
range for each position shall be made at such periods as may be determined
upon by the Village Manager for all others and employees who are eligible
for advancement after the completion of the designated period of satisfactory
service. Unless otherwise provided, proof of satisfactory and meritorious
service shall be established for all employees in the classified civil
service through efficiency records of the departments which shall
be kept in accordance with existing laws, rules and regulations and
in the form approved by the State Department of Civil Service.
B.
Where efficiency records are kept in an office in
accordance with the Civil Service Act,[1] no advancement in salary shall be granted to an employee
whose average net efficiency for the six months preceding the date
of request for advancement in salary is less than 75%.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 11A:1-1 et seq.
C.
An increase above the maximum salary rate of an existing position shall not be made except in case of increased duties or responsibilities which actually involve a change of position or until changes in the prevailing compensation schedule for the position or positions in question are made as provided in § 64-6.
