SEC. 3. Definition of Terms. —As used in this Decree, the following shall mean:
a. Actual Service—The period of time for which pay has been received, excluding the period covered by terminal leave.
b. Allocation —The act of assigning a position to its proper class and salary grade.
c. Class (of position) —The basic unit of the Position Classification System. A class consists of all those positions in the system which are sufficiently similar as to (1) kind or subject matter of work, (2) level of difficulty and responsibility, and (3) the qualification requirements of the work, to warrant similar treatment in personnel and pay administration.
d. Class Specification or Standards —A written description of a class of position (s). It distinguishes the duties, responsibilities and qualification requirements of positions in a given class from those of other classes in the Position Classification System.
e. Classification —The act of arranging positions according to broad occupational groupings and determining differences of classes within each group.
f. Commission —Stands for the Budget Commission.
g. Compensation or Pay System —A system for determining rates of pay for positions and employees based on equitable principles to be applied uniformly to similar cases. It consists, among others, of the Salary and Wage Schedules for ' all positions, and the rules and regulations for its administration.
h. Grade —Includes all classes of positions which, although dif ferent with respect to kind or subject matter of work, are sufficiently equivalent as to luvel of difficulty and responsibility and level of qualification requirements of the work to warrant the inclusion of such classes of positions within one range of basic compensation.
i. Immediate Supervisor —One who occupies the first level of supervision over a subordinate and who assigns, directs, supervises and reviews the work of the latter.
j. OCPC —Stands for the Office of Compensation and Position Classification.
k. Occupational Group —A group of classes of positions in the same occupation or occupational area arranged by level of difficulty and responsibility.
l. Part-Time Position —A set of duties and responsibilities not requiring performance for the total number of prescribed working hours per week, specified as normal for the organiz ation in which the position is located.
m. Position —A set of duties and responsibilities, assigned or delegated by competent authority and performed by an in dividual either on full-time or part-time basis. A position may be filled or vacant.
n. Position Classification —The grouping of positions into classes on the basis of similarity of kind and level of work, and the determination of the relative worth of those classes of positions.
o. Position Classification System —A system for classifying positions by occupational groups, series and classes, according to similarities or differences in duties and responsibilities, and qualification requirements. It consists of (1) classes and class specifications and (2) the rules and regulations for its installation and maintenance and for the interpretation, amendment and alternation of the classes and class specifications to keep pace with the changes in the service and the positions therein.
p. Preparation Equivalent Rating —A rating of the academic or educational preparation of an individual teacher with equi valents for his training for professional growth and teaching experience.
q. Reclassification or Reallocation —A change in the classification of a position either as a result of a change in its duties and responsibilities sufficient to warrant placing the position in a different class, or as a result of a re-evaluation of a position without a significant change in its duties and responsibilities.
r. Salary or Wage Adjustment —A salary or wage increase to wards the minimum of the grade, or an increase from a non-prescribed rate to a prescribed rate within the grade.
s. Salary or Wage Grade —The numerical place on the Salary or Wage Schedule representing multiple steps or rates which is assigned to a class.
t. Salary or War/e Schedule —A numerical structure in the Compensation System consisting of several grades, each grade with multiple steps with a percentage differential through out the pay table. A classified position is assigned a cor responding grade in the Schedule.
u. Salary or Wage Step Increment —An increase in salary or wage from one step to another step within the grade from the minimum to the maximum. Also known as within grade increase.
v. Series —Classes of positions in an occupational group with similar specialized lines of work that differ in the difficulty of duties and responsibilities and are assigned different grades.
