(a) The rules shall provide for a pay plan for all employees in the classified service, after consultation with state officers and after a public hearing held by the Board. Such pay plan shall become effective only after it has been approved by the Governor after submission to the Governor by the Board and after adequate appropriations to put such plan into effect have been received. Amendments to the pay plan may be made in the same manner. Nothing shall be contained in the pay plan except the salary and wage schedule and each employee in the classified service shall be paid at the rate set forth in the pay plan for the position classification. Any state employees who are not covered under Title 20, who are normally scheduled to work on weekends, and, who are members of the National Guard or United States Reserves shall be afforded the opportunity to reschedule within the same pay cycle their normally scheduled work weekends whenever their National Guard or United States Reserves drill weekend conflicts with their state weekend to work. The employee shall provide the State with 30 days advance notification of their scheduled Guard or Reserve drill weekend.

(b) No agency shall engage a consultant or authorize expenditures of any General or Special Funds for the purpose of studying personnel policies and/or the wage and salary classification of employees without the written authorization of the Secretary, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the concurrence of the Controller General.

(c) No state employee whose salary is designated in the annual appropriations act shall receive compensation, whether in wages, salary, wages-in-kind, food allotment bonuses or overtime, from agencies of this State in excess of said salary regardless of the source of funds involved except as provided in §§ 5105(c), 5112(b) and 5123 of this title. In the event that an employee shall receive excess compensation, the amount of the appropriation from the General Fund shall be reduced by the amount of such excessive compensation and the Attorney General shall take such steps as necessary to recover from such employee any such excessive amount as has actually been paid. In the event the “All Other” part of the salary is made up entirely of federal funds and such federal funds are terminated or reduced, that state appropriation is hereby increased to provide the “Total Salary” indicated.

(d) A state employee may perform additional duties for a state agency other than that employee’s principal employing agency, with the consent of that employee’s principal employing agency, and may be paid additional compensation, provided such additional duties are not a part of that employee’s regular duties for the principal employing agency and not rendered during the time paid for by the principal employing agency. All wage payments resulting from the performance of such additional duties, including FLSA overtime, shall be the responsibility of the secondary employing agency unless otherwise authorized by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Secretary.

(e) No employee of any department or agency shall receive hazardous duty pay, except those specifically included in the following paragraphs:

(1) Employees, otherwise qualified, who are employed by the Department of Correction (or its successor agency).

(2) Employees, otherwise qualified, who are employed by the Delaware Psychiatric Center (or its successor agency) and who are assigned to programs for the criminally insane.

(3) Employees, otherwise qualified, who are employed by the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families (or its successor agency).

(4) Casual seasonal employees performing the same job duties as those eligible employees identified in paragraphs (e)(1), (2), (3) of this section, shall also be deemed eligible. The amount of the monthly hazardous duty pay supplement shall be prorated based on the actual hours worked.

(5) Employees employed in the Prison Education Program as authorized in Chapter 24 of Title 14 whose primary job location is within the institutions.

(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed or interpreted by the Merit Employee Relations Board or by the Secretary to include hazardous duty pay as coming within the definition of fringe benefits.

29 Del. C. 1953, § 5916; 55 Del. Laws, c. 443, § 1; 56 Del. Laws, c. 376, § 5; 65 Del. Laws, c. 87, § 66; 66 Del. Laws, c. 85, § 196; 67 Del. Laws, c. 47, § 29; 69 Del. Laws, c. 436, § 9; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 550, § 1; 72 Del. Laws, c. 395, § 215; 72 Del. Laws, c. 413, § 1; 73 Del. Laws, c. 310, § 1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §§ 20(6), 21(13), 25(2), 26(2); 77 Del. Laws, c. 327, § 208; 80 Del. Laws, c. 242, § 1; 81 Del. Laws, c. 66, § 38; 82 Del. Laws, c. 64, § 30.