§18B-9-4 Establishment of personnel classification system; assignment to classification and to salary schedule. - West Virginia Statutes

§18B-9-4. Establishment of personnel classification system; assignment to classification and to salary schedule.
(a) The commission shall implement an equitable system of job classifications, with the advice and assistance of staff councils and other groups representing classified employees, each classification to consist of related job titles and corresponding job descriptions for each position within a classification, together with the designation of an appropriate pay grade for each job title, which system shall be the same for corresponding positions of the commission and in institutions under all governing boards. The equitable system of job classification and the rules establishing it which were in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this section are hereby transferred to the jurisdiction and authority of the commission and shall remain in effect unless modified or rescinded by the commission.

(b) Any classified salary increases distributed within a state institution of higher education after the first day of July, two thousand one, shall be in accordance with the uniform classification system and a uniform and equitable salary policy adopted by each individual board of governors. Each salary policy shall detail the salary goals of the institution and the process whereby the institution will achieve or progress toward achievement of placing each classified employee at his or her minimum salary on the schedule established pursuant to section three of this article.

(c) A classified employee may receive a salary in excess of the salary established by the salary schedule for his or her pay grade and years of experience only if all such employees at the institution are receiving at least the minimum salary for their pay grade and years of experience as established for them by the salary schedule: Provided, That any salary increase must be provided in a manner that is consistent with the uniform classification system and the institution's salary policy.