Common use of Salary Increase in Next Lower Rank Clause in Contracts

Salary Increase in Next Lower Rank. When a classification that was formerly a next lower rank in a regular civil service promotional examination receives a salary grade higher than the salary grade of the classification to which it was formerly promotive, the MTA Department of Human Resources shall authorize a rate of pay to an employee who was promoted from such lower class equivalent to the salary the employee would have received had the employee remained in such lower class, provided that such employee must file with the MTA Department of Human Resources an approved request for reinstatement in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Service Commission rule governing reinstatements to the first vacancy in the employee’s former classification, and provided further that the increased payment shall be discontinued if the employee waives an offer to promotion from the employee’s current classification or refuses an exempt appointment to a higher classification. This provision shall not apply to offers of appointment which would involve a change of residence.

Salary Increase in Next Lower Rank. When a classification that was formerly a next lower rank in a regular civil service promotional examination receives a salary grade higher than the salary grade of the classification to which it was formerly promotive, the MTA Department of Human Resources shall authorize a rate of pay to an employee who was promoted from such lower class equivalent to the salary the employee would have received had the employee remained in such lower class, provided that such employee must file with the MTA Department of Human Resources an approved request for reinstatement in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Service Commission rule governing reinstatements to the first vacancy in vacancyin the employee’s former classification, and provided further that the increased payment shall be discontinued if the employee waives an offer to promotion from the employee’s current classification or refuses an exempt appointment to a higher classification. This provision shall not apply to offers of appointment which would involve a change of residenceofresidence.