22 Pa. Code § 155.14 – Positions affected.

(a) If positions must be retrenched at a college, the impact shall be distributed among all position classifications of employes specifications of employes specifically. This shall include positions classified as:
1. (1) State college and university managers
2. (2) Civil service managers
3. (3) State college and university administrators
4. (4) Association of Pennsylvania state college and university facilities, unit II
5. (5) American Federation of State of county, and municipal employees; Pennsylvania nurses association; United Plant Guard workers of America; Pennsylvania Association of state mental hospital physicians, and federation of state cultural and educational professional units.
6. (6) Association of Pennsylvania State College and university faculties, unit I
(b) However, the impact shall be equitably applied to each of these classifications in accordance with subsequent regulations.
(c) The established salary range of each position remaining after the implementation of retrenchments shall govern the salary to be paid to a person continuing to hold the position or to a person newly assigned to the position regardless of the salary paid in his former position.
(d) One major effect of any retrenchment decision shall be the reduction of the management structure of each college to the absolutely smallest number of positions required to maintain the programs and services retained in the approved retrenchment plan.
(e) Each college shall attempt to combine management functions and reduce management positions. This may be accomplished partially by collapsing equal level positions of a semi-similar nature into fewer positions.
(f) In each case where an ‘‘assistant’’ position, careful examination shall be made of the assistant position to see if it can be eliminated with the duties included within the‘‘primary’’ position.
(g) Each college shall attempt to identify administrative positions which, while important to the college, are not central to the effective operation of the college operating under a condition of extreme fiscal crisis.
(h) As with management positions, each college shall attempt to reduce the number of positions within an administrative function by collapsing equal level positions and by eliminating ‘‘assistant’’ positions whenever feasible and necessary.
(i) The Secretary shall arrange through the Office of Administration for the publication and distribution of appropriate procedures to be used at the college for notifying these employe organizations, under subsection (a)(5) of the planned termination of employes within these bargaining units.