Staff Reduction In the event the District adopts a reduced educational program by reason of financial necessity, including but not limited to, levy failure and/or decreased State or Federal support, certificated employees who will be retained to implement the District’s reduced or modified program and those certificated employees who will be non-renewed from employment or adversely affected in contract status shall be identified by the provisions contained in this Article. If the District is only reducing provisional employees, the following procedures do not need to be implemented.
Salary on Reduction A. 1. When a probationary employee is reduced to a class not previously occupied by the employee, the employee shall receive the recruiting step for the lower class and shall receive a new merit increase eligibility date as provided in Section 3.C., above, or the employee's salary and merit increase eligibility date may be determined by the Chief Human Resources Officer.
Salary Reduction A reduction in pay from one step to another, which is not below the minimum rate established for the position by the salary plan. The employee must be interviewed by the concerned department head or designated representative and served with a written notice of salary reduction. The reduction in pay of any regular employee requires the approval of the City Manager. A copy of the notice of salary reduction shall be sent immediately to the Administrative Services Department for inclusion in the employee's official personnel file.