District Of Columbia § 1-611.01 - Classification policy; grade levels; publication required; public hearing.
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§ 1-611.01. Classification policy; grade levels; publication required; public hearing.
1-611.01The classification of all positions in the Career, Educational, Legal, Excepted, and the Management Supervisory Services will be accomplished in accordance with the following policy:
Individual positions will be grouped and identified by classes and grades, in accordance with their duties, responsibilities, and qualification requirements and shall be indexed and cross referenced in the incumbent classification and compensation system; and
The principle of equal pay for substantially equal work will be supported.
The grade levels of all positions in the Career, Educational, Legal, Excepted, and the Management Supervisory Services shall be based on the consideration of applicable factors, such as knowledge and skills required by the positions; supervisory controls exercised over the work; guidelines used; complexity of the work; scope and effect of the work; personal contacts; purpose of contacts; physical demands of the positions; and work environment.
Classification systems or proposals developed under the authority of this subchapter shall be published in the District of Columbia Register at least 60 days prior to their proposed effective date. The Mayor or the Board of Education or the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia shall hold, as provided in this subchapter, a public hearing on all such proposals he, she, or it has published in the District of Columbia Register prior to his, her, or its adoption of a classification system or amendment to such system; provided, that the classification system or systems in effect on December 31, 1979, shall remain in effect until the adoption of a classification system or systems pursuant to or .
Annotations
Compensation for District employees: Section 120 of Pub. L. 104-194, 110 Stat. 2366, the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1997, provided that notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the provisions of et seq., enacted pursuant to , shall apply with respect to the compensation of District of Columbia employees and provided that, for pay purposes, employees of the District of Columbia government shall not be subject to the provisions of title 5 of the United States Code.
Repeal of § 4(b) of Law 6-177: Section 3(b) of , effective March 15, 1990, provided that § 4(b) of is repealed.
Repeal of § 3 of Law 6-177: Section 4(b) of provided that the provisions of § 3 are repealed on the 1st day following the 36-month period after February 24, 1987.
Source: official District Of Columbia text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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