Common use of Assignment of Responsibility Clause in Contracts

Assignment of Responsibility. 19.1.1 When any employee of the bargaining unit performs the majority of the duties of a position in a classification higher than the classification currently held by the employee, the employee shall receive a five percent temporary salary increase. An employee will be deemed to be assigned such duties when the temporary transfer exceeds fifteen consecutive calendar days in a thirty day period. Any such pay increase will begin on the sixteenth day, shall be retroactive to the date of the temporary transfer and shall end when the employee reverts to his/her previous classification. Such assignments shall be in writing. When the employer knows higher level duties will be temporarily assigned for more than thirty consecutive calendar days no employee shall be arbitrarily required to work out of class for periods of less than 15 consecutive calendar days in order to avoid paying the employee the salary for performing the higher level position.