Ala. Admin. Code r. 670-X-7-.04

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 1, October 31, 2024

Section 670-X-7-.04 - Allocation Of Positions To Classes

Every position in the state service shall be allocated to one of the classes established by the classification plan. Those positions which are substantially similar with respect to difficulty, responsibility, and character of work, require generally the same kind and amount of training and experience for proper performance, and merit approximately equal pay shall be allocated to the same class. The class specifications for the class series in the service shall be considered in allocating positions to classes and shall be interpreted as follows:

(a) Class specifications are descriptive only and are not restrictive. The use of a particular expression of duties, qualifications, requirements, or other attributes shall not be held to exclude others not mentioned if such others are similar as to kind or quality.

(b) In determining the class to which any position shall be allocated, the specifications for each class shall be considered as a whole. Consideration is to be given to the general duties, specific tasks, responsibilities required, qualifications and relationships to other classes as affording together a picture of the positions that the class is intended to include.

(c) Class specifications shall be construed as a general description of the kinds of work characteristic of positions allocated to a class and not as prescribing what the duties of any position shall be, nor as limiting the expressed or implied power of the authority now or hereafter vested with the right to prescribe or alter the duties of any position.

(d) The fact that the actual tasks performed by the incumbent of a position do not appear in the specification for the class to which the position has been allocated shall not be taken to mean that the position is necessarily excluded from the class. Nor shall any one example of a typical task taken without relation to the parts of the specification be construed as determining that a position should be allocated to the class.

(e) The statement of compensable factors expresses the minimum background in terms of education and experience which would likely be required of any new appointee to a position in the class as evidence of his ability to perform the work properly, and is to be so construed and not as imposing in itself any new or additional requirements upon incumbents of positions. Although they may not be expressed, such qualifications as should properly be required of incumbents of all or any positions, such as honesty, security clearance, sobriety and industry, are taken for granted.

Ala. Admin. Code r. 670-X-7-.04

Filed September 29, 1981.

Amended by Alabama Administrative Monthly Volume XXXIII, Issue No. 08, May 29, 2015, eff. 6/24/2015.

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Statutory Authority:Code of Ala. 1975, § 36-26-11.