ARTICLE 20

ASSIGNMENT/REASSIGNMENT

20.1

    An employee shall be assigned/reassigned to a position by the appropriate administrator. Such assignments shall be consistent with the employee's classification except as provided elsewhere in this article. It is expressly agreed that the application or interpretation of this section shall not require any change of the classification of any unit member.

20.2

    An employee may be temporarily assigned, on a de minimus basis, to perform other duties inconsistent with his/her classification or may be reassigned to a position in a higher classification for which he/she is qualified. Notice of such pending temporary reassignment to a higher classification shall be posted on appropriate bulletin boards prior to the effective date of the temporary reassignment, except in cases of emergencies.

20.3

    An employee who has received written notice from his/her appropriate administrator that he/she will be serving in such a full-time temporary assignment in a higher classification on an acting basis, pursuant to provision 20.2 above for longer than fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days shall be entitled to receive extra pay commencing with the sixteenth (16) day or earlier at the discretion of the President. The employee's rate of pay upon such temporary reassignment shall be no less than the minimum rate of the higher classification or the rate within the higher salary range which results in at least five (5) percent over the rate last received, whichever is greater.

20.4

    If any such future reassignment within a twelve (12) month period occurs which extends for more than five (5) consecutive working days, the employee shall receive the appropriate compensation of the higher classification from the first day of such a reassignment. Days on which an employee is absent from work or on a paid leave shall not constitute a break in "consecutive workdays" as the term is used in this Article.

20.5

    After forty-five (45) consecutive days in a less than full-time temporary assignment at a higher classification, an employee shall begin to receive the appropriate compensation pro rata commencing with the forty-sixth (46) day.

20.6

    Temporary reassignment in a higher classification shall not exceed one hundred and eighty (180) consecutive calendar days unless it is extended by mutual agreement and/or in the cases of IDL, NDI, and extended illness of the prior incumbent.

20.7

    An employee shall be returned to his/her previous assignment upon completion of a temporary assignment with the same status that the employee would have had if not temporarily assigned.

20.8

    The Employer shall notify the Union thirty (30) days prior to the effective date of new or revised classifications relating to bargaining unit employees.

20.9

    Prior to the implementation of a new or revised classification, a three (3) step procedure may be invoked as follows:

    a. The Union may request a meeting to discuss whether the new or revised classification and its salary are appropriate for the bargaining unit. Such a meeting shall be held. The parties may agree in writing to modify the unit to include the new classification.

    b. The Union may request a meet and confer session regarding the impact of the new or revised classification on bargaining unit members and whether the wage rate is appropriate for the classification.

    c. If the parties are in disagreement, either may seek a unit modification pursuant to the procedures established by PERB.

20.10

    The number of student work hours in this unit at a campus shall not be increased in the event of layoff of bargaining unit employees at that campus.


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