Salary Adjustment on Promotion a) The appointment of an employee constitutes a promotion where the maximum rate of pay applicable to the position to which that person is appointed or reclassified exceeds the maximum rate of pay applicable to the employee’s substantive level immediately before that appointment.
b) Upon appointment to a position with a higher maximum rate of pay, the employee shall be placed on the step on the new pay scale that provides the employee an increase of no less than 5%, not exceeding the maximum of the new salary grid, or to the minimum of the new salary grid, whichever is greater.
c) Should an employee’s appointment consistent with paragraph (b) above happen on the same day as a step increase and / or general economic increase, the step and / or general increase will be applied before the 5% referenced in paragraph (b) above is calculated.
Salary Adjustment on Promotion