The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the establishment of a merit system and personnel program to regulate the appointment, advancement and removal of persons in the employment of the city. The merit system and personnel program shall provide for the analysis and classification of jobs, establishment of adequate and equitable wages, fringe benefits and retirement plans; development of effective recruitment, selection, placement, training, employee evaluation and promotion programs; assurance of equal employment opportunity of persons consistent with merit principles without regard to race, national origin, politics, religion, age, sex or other nonmerit factors; protection of employees from discrimination, arbitrary removal and political pressures; development and administration of positive employee management relations and communications to promote improvement of personnel management and employer relations by providing a uniform basis for recognizing the rights of city employees to join organizations of their own choice and to represented by such organizations in their employment relationship with the city or to refrain from joining such organizations.
(Ord. 338 § 1, 1979).