5.021 -   DESCRIPTIVE BUT NOT RESTRICTIVE.  The specifications are descriptive and not restrictive.  They are intended to indicate the kinds of positions that are allocated to the several classes, as determined by their duties and responsibilities, and shall not be construed as declaring to any extent, or in any way, what the duties or responsibilities of any position shall be, or as limiting or in any way modifying the power of any appointing authority to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his supervision.  The use of a particular expression or illustration as to duties shall not be held to exclude others not mentioned that are of similar kind or quality.

5.022 -   USE IN ALLOCATING POSITIONS.  In determining the class to which any position should be allocated the specification of each class shall be considered as a whole.  Consideration shall be given to the general duties, specific tasks, responsibilities, minimum qualification requirements and relationship to other classes as together affording a picture of the kind of employment that the class is intended to embrace.  The specification shall not be construed to indicate that all of the duties so enumerated shall be requisite to allocation of a position to the class concerned.

5.023 -   IMPLIED QUALIFICATIONS.  Qualifications commonly required of all incumbents of positions of different classes, such as ability to perform the essential functions of the position, honesty, sobriety, and industry, shall be deemed to be implied as qualification requirements for entrance to each class, even though they may not be specifically mentioned in the specifications.

5.024 -   USE IN EXAMINATIONS.  The class specifications for any civil service position shall constitute the basis and source of authority for the examination content for the class and for the eligibility determination of applicants.

5.025 -   CAREER PROGRESSION CLASS.  A Career Progression class is a class that encompasses positions performing at different levels of responsibility within a single job class.  Positions range from entry level to full performance level and from entry level to advanced performance level.  Employees will be appointed to positions in career progression classes from an eligible list for the career progression class, or from an appropriate, related eligible list.  Employees appointed to positions in the entry to full performance level in a career progression class will advance through the steps in the pay range in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 6.099.  Employees permanently allocated to positions in a career progression class may be eligible for accelerated advancement through the pay range in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 6.099.

5.051 -   POSITION IN EXISTING CLASS.  No person shall be employed or paid in any position in the Civil Service until the class of such position has been determined by the Director.

5.052 -   POSITION IN ALLOCATED CLASS.  No person shall be appointed, employed or paid in any position in the Civil Service under any title other than that of a class to which the position he occupies is allocated.

5.061 -   CLASS DEFINED.  The Classification Plan shall be so maintained that all positions substantially similar with respect to the kind, difficulty, and responsibility of work are included in the same class, that the same means of recruitment may be used for filling all positions within a class, and that the same pay range may be applied with equity to all positions in a class.

5.062 -   REVISION OF CLASSIFICATION PLAN.  Whenever any change in departmental organization, creation of a new position, or change in duties or responsibilities of a specific position makes the revision of the Classification Plan necessary, the Director shall recommend the necessary revisions to the Commission.  The Commission shall consider the proposed changes at a public meeting and they shall become effective upon approval by the Commission and the Administrative Board, according to the procedure set forth in subsection 5.077.  The Director shall give advance notice of such public meetings of the Commission.  Such advance notice shall indicate the nature of the recommended changes in the Classification Plan and shall be sent to all appointing authorities who would be affected by such proposed changes.

5.071 -   A written appeal shall be prepared in duplicate on forms provided by the Director.

5.072 -   The appeal shall set forth the changes requested in the Classification Plan together with specific reasons in support thereof.

5.073 -  The appellant shall file the original of the appeal with the Director and, if an employee, the copy with the head of department, office, board or commission with which he is employed.

5.074 -   The Director shall review all such appeals and shall schedule such appeals for hearing before the Commission.  Appointing authorities and the appellants affected by the appeal will be notified of such hearings by the Director.

5.075 -   The Director shall make recommendations for or against the proposed changes in the Classification Plan.

5.076 -   The Director shall notify in writing the appellant and departments concerned of the final disposition of the appeal.

5.077 -   If the Commission approves an amendment to the Classification Plan, the Director shall submit the amendment to the Managing Director and the Director of Finance.  If the Managing Director and the Director of Finance approve the amendment, the amendment shall be deemed approved as of the date of the last of these approvals.  If the Managing Director or Director of Finance do not approve the amendment, by the date of the Administrative Board meeting following the submission of the amendment, the amendment shall be considered by the Administrative Board at such meeting and approved or disapproved by the Board.

5.081 -   ALLOCATION APPEALS. 

5.082 -   REALLOCATION REVIEW.  An employee, his representative or appointing authority, affected by a reallocation or denial of a request for reallocation, shall have the same right to make an application for reconsideration as is granted the appointing authority in the case of an original allocation by Section 5.04 of this Regulation, and the procedure set forth in Section 5.081 of this Regulation shall apply to such application.  Any reallocation granted by the Director upon reconsideration shall become effective retroactive to the date that the Director shall determine but not earlier than the date of the reallocation request.

5.091 -   EMPLOYEE STATUS FOLLOWING REALLOCATION OF POSITION.  An employee whose position is reallocated shall continue his status in the former class but shall be ineligible to continue in the position in the new class unless he is appointed to that position in accordance with applicable Regulations governing appointments, transfers, demotions and promotions.

5.092 -   REALLOCATION DUE TO TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES IN POSITIONS FILLED BY PERMANENT EMPLOYEES.  Where the addition of new and more complex equipment has resulted in an increase in the breadth of duties and responsibilities or skills of a class of positions and the Director deems a division of such class by way of a reclassification of existing positions therein necessary, the incumbents of positions affected shall have an opportunity to obtain status in their respective positions by

5.131 -   EMPLOYMENT IN TWO OR MORE CLASSES.  In those departments where it is necessary to provide regularly for relief workers in semi-skilled, skilled and trades classes of the Labor and Trades Service in the Classification Plan, to substitute for permanent employees during periods of absence, leave, changes in shift schedules, or for other proper reasons, employees may, in addition to working in their regular positions in which they have Civil Service status, also be appointed on a relief or substitute basis to higher level positions.  Such relief employees shall be selected from the persons standing highest on the appropriate promotional eligible lists, provided however, that for a given organizational or working unit, only those eligibles on the list from such working unit shall be considered for employment as relief workers in that unit.  In the absence of appropriate promotional eligible lists or the lack of eligibles from a working unit, the appointing authority may select any qualified employee to work as a relief employee.

5.132 -   DUAL CLASS EMPLOYEES.  In those departments where it is necessary to provide regularly for dual class workers whose employment during each twelve (12) month period usually alternates on a recurring or seasonal basis in two classes of positions, each alternating employment usually covering an extended period of work in each class, such employees have Civil Service status in both positions of employment.  Appointment to the higher level position of the dual employment shall be from the names of those persons standing highest on the departmental promotional eligible list or, in the absence of eligibles on the appropriate list, the appointing authority may select, on a provisional basis, any qualified employee for the dual class employment, pending availability of a qualified employee from an appropriate eligible list.

5.133 -   PREFERENCE.  In the event that two or more persons are relief employees in the same classification of work in a given organizational unit, the employee who has the highest standing on the current promotional eligible list for the class shall be given all such relief work possible, except as provided above, after which the relief employee next on the current eligible list shall be given such work, and so on down the list.  If all relief employees on the current list are being utilized in a work unit or if no employee in a work unit is on the current list, the relief employee most recently selected to the same class from the prior list shall then be given all further possible relief employment, and so on.  Provisional relief appointees shall be given assignments only after appointees selected from eligible lists have been offered assignments.  The appointing authority may cancel the relief appointment of an employee whose name does not appear on the current eligible list for the employee's relief class, if that appointment is not needed to meet a work unit's relief employee requirement.  Full-time vacancies in the higher classes for which there are relief employees shall be filled from the appropriate eligible list without regard to the subdivision of such list by organizational units.