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31.1. Classification Plan. The positions of all officers and employees in the service of the Town (whether full time, part time, seasonal, casual, special, Civil Service, or others) other than those positions filled by popular election and those under the direction and control of the School Committee, are hereby classified by titles in the groups listed in Schedule A entitled "Job Classification by Groups" which follows this article and is made a part hereof. (See Appendix)
31.2. New or Changed Positions. Whenever a new position is established, or the duties of an existing position are so changed that in effect a new position is created, upon presentation of substantiating data satisfactory to the Human Resources Board, the Board shall allocate such new or changed position to its appropriate Group.
31.3. Titles of Positions. No person shall be appointed, employed or paid as an employee in any position subject to the provisions of the Classification Plan under any title other than those of the Classification Plan or under any title other than that of the job the duties of which are actually performed. The job title in the Plan shall be the official title for all purposes having to do with the position and shall be used to designate the position in all payrolls, budget estimates and official reports, and in every other connection involving personnel and fiscal processes.
31.4. Reclassification of Employees. No employee may be reclassified to a job in another group, either higher or lower, until the Human Resources Board shall have determined such reclassification will be consistent with the Classification and Salary Plans. There shall be only one reclassification in any twelve month period for any employee except in unusual circumstances.
31.5. Job Descriptions. The Human Resources Board shall maintain written job descriptions of the jobs, or positions, in the Classification Plan, describing the essential characteristics, requirements and general duties of the jobs. The descriptions shall not be interpreted as complete or limiting definitions of any job, and employees shall continue in the future, as in the past, to perform any duties assigned by department heads, supervisors, or other administrative authority.
31.6. Salary Plan. A Salary Plan is to be established by vote of the Town Meeting to provide minimum and maximum salaries, or single rate salaries, for the groups and positions in the Classification Plan. The salary range, or rate, of a group shall be the salary range, or rate, for all positions classified in the group.
31.7. Amendment to Plans. The Classification and Salary Plans may be amended by a majority vote of Town Meeting. No amendment of either plan shall be made until it has been presented by signed petition to the Human Resources Board and acted upon by the Board. Upon receipt of such a petition, the Board, after giving the petitioners, the heads of the departments and employees affected at least three days' written notice, shall hold a hearing of the parties interested to consider the proposed amendment. If the Human Resources Board shall fail to act on an amendment so presented within fifteen days after the hearing thereon, the Board shall be deemed to have disapproved the amendment. The petition may then be presented to the Town Meeting, if so desired. The Board may, of its own motion, after a similar hearing of the
parties interested, propose an amendment to either Plan.
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