Class Maintenance Study. The Employer may initiate class maintenance studies related to a specific class or a group of positions within a department/division to maintain the integrity of the Employer’s classification system. The Employer will consider requests by the Union to initiate such studies. The format of these studies may include an informal survey or an in-depth study of changes in the kind, responsibility, or difficulty of work performed since the classification was last studied at the discretion of the Human Resources Department. Individuals in a studied class may not request a position study while the Maintenance Study is in progress. If the study is not completed within 120 days, the employee may request an individual position audit using the previously stated process and time frames for job audits. If a class or group of positions is/are reclassified pursuant to a class maintenance study to a class providing a higher maximum salary, no vacancy shall be deemed to have been created. Upon reclassification, the incumbent employees shall be appointed to the reclassified position and the incumbent employees’ pay shall be determined in accordance with Section 9.03, Subd. 1 of this Agreement. The effective date of the reclassification for pay purposes shall be January 1st of the calendar year following completion of the study. Incumbent employees shall maintain the classification seniority date of their previous classification as the classification seniority date of the new classification. The provisions of this section shall apply only to the incumbent employees who have been permanently certified to the involved positions. When a class or group of positions is/are reclassified pursuant to a Maintenance Study to a class providing a lower maximum salary, the involved incumbent employee may request that the reclassification be considered to be a layoff. If so requested, the provisions of Article 8 ("Xxxxxx and Recall From Layoff") shall be applied. In the alternative, the involved incumbent employee may elect to remain in the reclassified position and the incumbent employee's pay shall be frozen until such time as the salary for the new classification is the same or greater than the salary as frozen, at which point the salary schedule for the classification shall govern future changes. The Human Resources Department will develop an initial schedule of class maintenance studies in conjunction with the Union that provides that each class will be reviewed within six (6) calendar...
Class Maintenance Study. The Employer may initiate class maintenance studies related to a specific class or a group of positions within a department/division to maintain the integrity of the Employer’s classification system. The Employer will consider requests by the Union to initiate such studies. The format of these studies may include an informal survey or an in-depth study of changes in the kind, responsibility, or difficulty of work performed since the classification was last studied at the discretion of the Human Resources Department. Individuals in a studied class may not request a position study while the Maintenance Study is in progress. If the study is not completed within 120 days, the employee may request an individual position audit using the previously stated process and time frames for job audits. If a class or group of positions is/are reclassified pursuant to a class maintenance study to a class providing a higher maximum salary, no vacancy shall be deemed to have been created. Upon reclassification, the incumbent employees shall be appointed to the reclassified position and the incumbent employees’ pay shall be determined in accordance with Section 9.03, Subd. 1. of this Agreement. The effective date of the reclassification for pay purposes shall be no later than January 1st of the calendar year following completion of the study. Incumbent employees shall maintain the classification seniority date of their previous classification as the classification seniority date of the new classification. The provisions of this section shall apply only to the incumbent employees who have been permanently certified to the involved positions. Standard Updates and Housekeeping TA 9/15/2022
