78-28 PERSONNEL ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS

Home Browse Search

(a) a statement indicating the number of dependents to be used in computing the amount required to be withheld from the employee's paycheck under state and federal tax laws; (b) a statement authorizing deductions and designating beneficiaries for the appropriate state pension funds; and, (c) a statement of information as required for coverage un- der the City's employee performance bond. 4-2 . The employee may, at any time, make arrangements in writing with the City Treasurer's Office regarding the following deduc- tions as approved by the City Manager: employee insurance, credit union shares, union dues, the United Way, the Police Benevolent Association, and other similar purposes. CHAPTER 5 SALARIES 5-1. Employees shall be paid weekly or biweekly, as the case may be, according to a pay plan established and modified from time to time by the City Council and upon approval of payrolls submitted to the Council. Said pay plan shall assign a grade or range to each position classification, and each employee shall be paid ac- cording to the step in that grade or range said employee has achieved, beginning with Step A at entry into grade unless other- wise directed by the City Manager. 5-2 . Advancement from a lower step to a higher step shall be as authorized and directed by the City Manager, but such advancement shall not be made more than once in any 6 month period as to Steps A to B and B to C and not more than once annually as to all other steps. 5-3 . When an employee other than a Police or fire service employee is temporarily assigned to generally perform the duties of a position which is assigned a higher wage or salary in said pay plan than the position regularly occupied by said employee, such employee for the time he is so temporarily assigned shall be paid the wage or salary of the position to which such employee is temporarily assigned. This provision shall not apply to temporary assignments of a duration of two duty days or less so long as fourteen calendar days have lapsed since the last day said employee was temporarily assigned to a position with higher wage or salary than his regular position. Further, this provision shall not apply if the duties so performed are in connection with the training program such employee is engaged in. 5-4. If an employee in the fire service is temporarily assigned to perform the duties of a classified position with a higher rate of pay because a vacancy exists in said position, the employee shall be paid the wage or salary assigned to that position. This provision shall not apply to Lieutenants performing their duties in the absence of a Captain.