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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 439

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 64A - Merit System

27.

(d) Extra compensation, to be known as shift
differential pay, shall be granted to designated employees.
Such employees, to be eligible, must regularly work on [an
eight-hour] A FULL-TIME shift, starting between 2:00 p.m.
and 1:00 a.m. The Secretary shall establish rules and
regulations for the payment of such shift differential, to
provide fairness and equity among all employees in
consideration of the hours worked, conditions and place of
employment, prevailing practices in the locality, and other
factors deemed by the Secretary to be relevant under the
circumstances.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 16, 1978.

CHAPTER 440

(Senate Bill 216)

AN ACT concerning

Merit System — Transferred Employees

FOR the purpose of providing for the appointment, salary or
wages, leave, and seniority of certain employees
transferred into the State merit system; and providing
that the Secretary of Personnel shall transfer to the

State__merit system certain employees whose positions

are judicially determined in any action filed prior to

January 1, 1978 to have been created unlawfully or to

otherwise be unlawful.

BY adding to

Article 64A - Merit System

Section 56

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland