§ 37. Salary plan for non-judicial employees. 1. Salary schedules for\nnonjudicial officers and employees allocated to salary grades;\npromulgation; placement thereon. (a) The chief administrator of the\ncourts shall promulgate salary schedules for state-paid positions in the\nunified court system, allocated to salary grades, in accordance with\nlaw.\n (b) This paragraph shall apply to each nonjudicial officer or employee\nof the unified court system in a position allocated to a salary grade\nand paid pursuant to a salary schedule, who moves to another position\nallocated to the same salary grade, provided (i) his or her former\nposition is in a collective negotiating unit established pursuant to\narticle fourteen of the civil service law and his or her new position is\nin another collective negotiating unit or not in any such unit, or (ii)\nhis or her former position is not in a collective negotiating unit and\nhis or her new position is in such a unit. Each such nonjudicial officer\nor employee shall receive a basic annual salary upon such movement, to\nbe determined as follows:\n (1) Where his or her new position is paid pursuant to the same salary\nschedule as his or her former position, such nonjudicial officer or\nemployee shall be paid the same basic annual salary in his or her new\nposition as he or she received in his or her former position.\n (2) Where his or her new position is paid pursuant to a salary\nschedule ("new salary schedule"), which is different from the salary\nschedule pursuant to which he or she was paid in his or her former\nposition ("former salary schedule"), he or she shall be placed on such\nnew salary schedule and paid a basic annual salary on such new salary\nschedule which shall equal a rate that represents the same proportion of\nthe maximum salary of his or her grade on the new salary schedule, as\nhis or her basic annual salary under the former salary schedule\nrepresented of the maximum salary of his or her grade on such former\nsalary schedule.\n 2. All state-paid positions in the competitive, non-competitive and\nlabor classes in the unified court system shall be allocated to a salary\ngrade by the administrative board of the judicial conference and shall\nbe paid in accordance with this section. In the discretion of the\nadministrative board any or all state-paid exempt class positions may\nalso be so paid, within the appropriation available therefor.\n 3. Additional increment. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of\nthis chapter, when an employee holding a position allocated to a salary\ngrade prescribed in subdivision one of this section has reached, on or\nafter April first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine, a salary equal to or in\nexcess of the maximum salary of the grade of his or her position and\nthereafter has rendered continuous service in such position, or in a\nposition in the same salary grade, he or she shall be entitled, on the\nfirst day of the fiscal year following completion of four years of such\nservice, to an additional increment of the grade to which his or her\nposition is allocated, and following completion of eight years of such\nservice, to a second additional increment of such grade. The salary of\nsuch employee shall not be increased, pursuant to the provisions of this\nsubdivision, to an amount in excess of the maximum salary of the grade\nof his or her position plus one additional increment of such grade or,\nupon qualifying for such second additional increment, to an amount in\nexcess of the maximum salary of the grade of his or her position plus\ntwo additional increments of such grade.\n For the purposes of this subdivision: (a) an employee who has reached\na salary equal to or in excess of the maximum salary of the grade of his\nposition and whose position, on or after April first, nineteen hundred\nseventy-two is reallocated to a higher salary grade shall be deemed to\nhave had continuous service at the maximum salary of the grade of his\nposit‹ Prev All New York sections Next ›
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