Promotion normally requires no funding beyond that available to the department in the provision to which the employee is promoted. If additional funding is required it must be provided from departmental resources. Upward Reclassification will be funded by Resource Management to the limit of turnover savings available, provided the incumbent in the provision has occupied the position for at least twelve months. The cost of upward reclassification of a position which is vacant or which has experienced turnover within a period of twelve months shall be borne by departmental funds. Reclassification of a vacant provision to an unrelated series, i.e., Typist Clerk to Laboratory Mechanician, represents a change in the use of budgeted funds and is not eligible for funding from the campus provision for reclassification.
Savings resulting from demotion or downward reclassification of an employee's position are rare.
When an employee's salary is reduced to a step within a lower level classification, the difference between Step I of the previous classification and the employee's new salary level shall be treated in accordance with rules applying to replacement at a lower level staff title as explained in the final paragraph of IV.A.2. If the salary is reduced to a lower rate within the existing title code, the resulting permanent savings, which represent previously awarded staff merit funding, shall be drawn to campus turnover savings and the current year saving is committed to achievement of the campus budgetary savings target. Funding General Assistance Salaries Permanent General Assistance budgets funded from General Funds are augmented from centrally administered provisions for range adjustment only to the extent that funds are provided to the campus from the Systemwide Administration Provision for Range Adjustment. General Assistance budgets are ineligible to receive augmentation from campus provision accounts for six-months, merit, exceptional or reclassification increases. In the event that a department wishes further clarification of the budgetary requirements described herein, Resource Management should be contacted.