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 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.