Common use of Reallocation of Position Clause in Contracts

Reallocation of Position. ‌ If an employee is reclassified to a higher salary range based upon the work already being performed, the employee’s status, and step placement shall remain unchanged. An employee who has earned a pay increment must remain at that pay increment in the new range for two years. If an employee is reclassified to a higher salary range based upon work that they have not already been performing, their step placement shall be determined in accordance with Article 13. The merit anniversary date or pay increment date, status and salary step assignment of an employee whose position is reallocated from one (1) class to another class at the same salary range shall remain unchanged. An employee holding a position which is assigned to a lower pay range or reallocated to a classification which carries a lower pay range shall be treated in the following manner: 1. If the employee's current salary is the same as any step in the new range, the employee shall enter the new range at that step; 2. If the employee's current pay rate falls within the lower range, but does not match any steps within the new range, the employee shall be placed at the lower of the two steps closest to their current pay rate and the employee's pay rate shall remain frozen at the current pay rate until that employee earns the next merit increase or pay increment at which time that employee shall be placed at the next higher step; 3. If the employee's current salary exceeds the maximum of the new range, it shall remain frozen until it is the same as any step or falls between steps which appear on the salary schedule at the lower range, whichever is earlier. Salaries which are frozen shall not be subject to any salary increase including contractually negotiated adjustments or cost-of-living adjustments to the salary schedule. For purposes of this paragraph employees whose positions are subject to a reallocation from one (1) class to another may not be paid at a pay increment unless they have earned such step in the class occupied prior to the reallocation action or until said step is earned in the class to which the position was reallocated. Time served at Step F or a pay increment of the higher range shall be counted as time served at Step F or a pay increment of the lower range.