The governing body shall make or cause to have
made an analysis of the duties and responsibilities of full-time positions
in the Borough and shall assign each position to an appropriate class
in accordance with the approved position-classification plan.
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 classification shall be sufficiently alike to permit the
use of a single descriptive title, the same test of competence and
the same salary range, thus carrying out the basic principle of classification,
which is equal pay for equal work. A job classification may contain
one position or a number of positions. The governing body shall from
time to time review the job classifications.
A.Â
The classification plan may be amended from time to
time by the governing body. Such changes may result from the need
of creating new positions, changes in organization or change in assigned
duties and responsibilities.
B.Â
The Councilman in charge of the respective committee
or department 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 recommend to the
governing body appropriate action necessary to ensure the correct
classification and allocation of the position.
C.Â
Each department head shall report to the Chairman
of his committee changes in his organization or assignment of duties
and responsibilities to a given employee which result in changes in
the position-classification plan or in the classification of any of
the positions in his department.
D.Â
An employee may submit a request in writing to the
Councilman in charge of the respective committee or department at
any time for a review of the duties and responsibilities of his position.
Such a request shall be submitted through his department head and
shall include the employee's own description of his current duties
and responsibilities. The Councilman in charge of the respective committee
or department shall then make an investigation of the position to
determine its correct allocation. He shall report his findings in
writing to the governing body and shall furnish a copy to the employee
requesting the review and to his department head.
A position may be abolished or the number of
personnel reduced by the governing body for reasons of economy or
for reasons of a reorganization within a department or departments.
In the Police Department such events shall be governed by the provisions
of N.J.S.A. 40A:14-143. Every effort shall be made to reassign any
affected permanent employees to another position in the Borough service
for which the employee may be qualified, prior to taking applications
for the vacancy. If an employee is demoted because of economy or departmental
reorganization, he shall be placed in a new salary grade in the same
step he held in his prior position before demotion.
