Every employee of the municipal government on the effective date of this revised Charter shall continue in such employment and thereafter be subject in all respects to the provisions of this Charter and ordinances, resolutions, rules, or regulations enacted or promulgated thereunder, except that no employee who has been continuously employed by the City for a period of at least one year immediately prior to the effective date of this revised Charter shall be required to submit to an examination, but shall be hereby granted civil service status if such employee occupies a position in the classified service of the City under this revised Charter.