North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 4 - Management and Budget, Office of › Article 4-07 - Organization of Human Resource Management Services › Chapter 4-07-02 - Salary Administration Procedures › Section 4-07-02-01 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
The terms used throughout this title have the same meaning as
				  in North Dakota Century Code chapter 54-44.3, and sections 54-06-30 and
				  54-06-31, except:
1. "Appointing
				authority" has the same meaning as provided in North Dakota Century Code
				section 54-44.3-02.
2. "Class" or
				"classification" means a group of positions, regardless of location, which are
				enough alike in duties and responsibilities to be called by the same
				descriptive title, to be given the same pay range under similar conditions, and
				to require substantially the same qualifications.
3. "Classification plan" means the listing of
				all the classes that have been established, the description for those classes,
				and the process and procedures developed to maintain the plan.
4. "Equity increase" means a salary increase
				provided to a classified employee to mitigate either a serious internal agency
				inequity or a documented external market condition.
5. "General salary increase" means a salary
				increase provided to classified employees by specific legislative
				appropriation.
6. "Hiring rate"
				means the salary level assigned to an employee upon initial employment with an
				agency.
7. "Job evaluation
				committee" is the committee responsible to evaluate, maintain, and ensure the
				consistency of job evaluations of the North Dakota classification system. The
				job evaluation committee shall be made up of professional human resource staff
				from human resource management services and state agencies designated by the
				director of human resource management services.
8. "Pay grade" means the number assigned to a
				classification which corresponds with one specific range of pay
				rates.
9. "Performance increase"
				means a salary increase provided to a classified employee in recognition of
				documented performance which is consistently superior or which consistently
				exceeds performance standards.
10.
				"Probationary increase" means a salary increase provided to a classified
				employee upon the successful completion of their applicable probationary
				period.
11. "Promotional increase"
				means a salary increase provided to a classified employee when the employee is
				assigned to a position in a different class which has a higher pay grade or
				which reflects a substantially higher level of responsibility than the
				employee's previous position, and the assignment is not a result of a
				reclassification of the employee's position.
12. "Reclassification adjustment" means a
				salary change applied to a classified employee when the employee's position is
				reallocated to a different classification that has a different pay
				grade.
13. "Responsibility level or
				workload increase" means a salary increase provided to a classified employee
				when either of the following conditions are met:
a. The level of duties and responsibilities
				assigned to the employee is permanently changed, is documented, and is
				independent of any change in classification.
b. A substantial, documented, increase in
				workload is assigned to a position.