Code of Maine Rules › 18 - DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES › 389 - BUREAU OF HUMAN RESOURCES › Chapter 15 - THE MAINE MANAGEMENT SERVICE › Section 389-15-3 - Definition of Terms

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
1. The following
				words and terms, wherever used in this chapter, shall have the following
				meaning:
A. "Agency" means a department,
				division, board, institution, or other unit of the Executive Branch, in which
				all positions are under the same appointing authority.
B. "Allocate" means the assignment of a
				salary grade, subject to budgetary procedures, to an individual
				position.
C. "Appointing Authority"
				means a person or group of persons empowered by the constitution, by statute,
				or by lawfully delegated authority to make appointments to positions in the
				State Service.
D. "Benchmark
				Classification" means a group of positions so sufficiently alike with respect
				to duties, responsibilities and authority that the same descriptive title may
				be used with clarity to designate each such position.
E. "Classification Plan" means a system of
				identifying and describing the different kinds and levels of work which
				comprise the MMS whereby significantly similar positions are grouped under a
				common Benchmark Classification.
F.
				"Classification Schedule" means the listing of individual positions and their
				designated pay ranges and any amendment/adjustments thereto, resulting from
				application of the classification plan.
G. "Classify" means to assign an individual
				position to a benchmark classification.
H. "Demotion" means a rate of pay adjusted to
				a lower rate in another benchmark classification and/or management
				function.
I. "Individual position"
				means a group of current duties and responsibilities assigned or delegated by
				competent authority, requiring the employment of one person. Individual
				positions are assigned within the various Benchmark Classifications.
J. "Management Function" means broadly
				defined series of Benchmark Classifications grouped according to their
				managerial role.
K. "Promotion"
				means a rate of pay adjusted to a higher rate in another benchmark
				classification and/or management function.
L. "Salary Grade Adjustment" means changing
				an employee's authorized salary grade, based on evaluated job
				content.
M. "Salary Grade" means an
				authorized and budgeted minimum, maximum, and intermediate rates of pay
				(steps).
N. "Salary Range" means
				grades authorized for a benchmark classification.
O. "Unclassified employee" is in a job that
				is excluded from the civil service system. [NOTE: All unclassified positions
				have a basis in law and are not subject to civil service. MMS employees who
				fill unclassified positions that are excluded from the collective bargaining
				process are appointed to serve "at the pleasure" of the hiring authority.
				Examples of unclassified "serve-at-the-pleasure" positions include cabinet
				members, heads of State boards and agencies and major policy-influencing
				appointees.]
P. "Transfer" means a
				change in position or assignment where the rate of pay remains
				unchanged.