Common use of Salary Step After Promotion or Demotion Clause in Contracts

Salary Step After Promotion or Demotion. When a nurse is promoted from a position in one class to a position in a higher class, and at the time of promotion is receiving a base salary equal to, or greater than, the minimum base rate for the higher class, that nurse shall be entitled to receive the next step in the salary schedule of the higher class which is at least 5.7% above the rate he/she has been receiving, except that the next step shall not exceed the maximum salary of the higher class. When a nurse is demoted, whether such demotion is voluntary or otherwise, that nurse's compensation shall be adjusted to the salary prescribed for the class to which demoted, and the specific rate of pay within the range shall be determined by the HRD Director, whose decision shall be final; provided, however, that the Board of Supervisors may provide for a rate of pay higher than the maximum step of the schedule for the nurse's class, and designate such rate of pay as a Y rate, and also provided that a nurse demoted as a result of abolition of a position shall be placed at the salary step in the lower class which most closely approximates (but does not exceed) his/her salary in the higher class.