Administration

(a)The Director of Administration shall adopt and apply the currently used unified pay schedule based on the Hay methodology or any other classification methods and salary administration to the extent he deems appropriate. The unified pay schedule, either by the Hay Group or any other experts in classification and pay, shall be administered by the Director of Administration, by the Judicial Council for the Judicial Branch, and by the Board of Trustees for the Public Defender Service Corporation.

(b)The Director of Administration, the Judicial Council, and the Board of Trustees of the Public Defender Service Corporation may reassign pay grades as they deem necessary. Reassignment shall be based upon the calculation of Hay points or points established by other experts and shall be performed by technical staff trained in the classification and compensation evaluation system for the sake of consistency and uniformity of results. The technical staffs of the Human Resources Division in the Executive Branch, the Judiciary Human Resources Office, and the Public Defender Service Corporation Human Resources Office shall coordinate their efforts in implementing the Hay methodology or any other classification and pay system.

(c)The Director of Administration, the Judicial Council, and the Board of Trustees of the Public Defender Service Corporation shall establish appropriate policies and procedures for implementing the provisions of this Article for their respective jurisdictions.