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Personnel matters - 74 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 1724

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     § 1724.  Personnel matters.
        (a)  Classification of position.--
            (1)  The general manager shall classify all the offices,
        positions and grades of regular employment required with
        reference to the duties and compensation fixed therefor and
        adopt rules governing appointments to any of such offices or
        positions on the basis of merit and efficiency.
            (2)  Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the chairman of the
        board, secretary, counsel to the board or controller.
            (3)  No discrimination shall be made in any appointment
        or promotion because of age, sex, race, creed, color,
        political or religious affiliations or disability. No officer
        or employee shall be discharged or demoted except for just
        cause.
        (b)  Change in work force.--The general manager may abolish
     any office or reduce the force of employees for lack of work or
     lack of funds, but, in so doing, the officer or employee with
     the shortest service record in the classification and grade to
     which the officer or employee belongs shall be first released
     from service and shall be reinstated in order of seniority when
     additional force of employees in that job classification and
     grade is required. No person shall be released from service
     under this subsection if the person can be transferred:
            (1)  to another job classification at a lower grade in
        which job classification the person had previously served,
        for which that person is qualified and in which the incumbent
        is junior in seniority; or
            (2)  to a vacancy in another job classification for which
        that person is qualified.
        (c)  Pension system.--There shall be established and
     maintained by the authority a pension and retirement system to
     provide for payments when due under such system or as modified
     from time to time by resolution of the board. For this purpose,
     both the board and the participating employees shall make such
     periodic payments to the established system as may be determined
     by resolution. The board may provide for participation by its
     employees in the Social Security program or, in lieu of Social
     Security payments required to be paid by private corporations
     engaged in similar activity, shall make payments into such
     established system at least equal in amount to the amount so
     required to be paid by such private corporations or shall make
     such other arrangements as will accomplish the same purpose.
     Provisions shall be made by the board for all officers and
     employees of the authority appointed under this chapter to
     become, subject to procedures adopted by resolution of the
     board, members and beneficiaries of the pensions and retirement
     system with uniform rights, privileges, obligations and status
     as to the class in which the officers and employees belong.
     Members and beneficiaries of any pension or retirement system
     established by a transportation system acquired by the authority
     shall continue to have rights, privileges, benefits, obligations
     and status with respect to the previously established system. To
     achieve the purposes set forth in this subsection, the board
     shall, by resolution, adopt appropriate procedures and from time
     to time shall obtain competent actuarial advice.

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