Salary and Benefits PEP School Law Academy

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Salary and BenefitsPEP School Law Academy

• An overview of the benefits
• available for school personnel and
• informational tips to building level
• administrators
• Gary Jarrett, School Personnel Support,
• Division of School Business, DPI

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Salary and Benefits

• Specific topics to be reviewed
• eligibility for benefits
• use of leave
• special items of interest
• hiring retired individuals

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Benefits Who is eligible?

• Must be a permanent employee employed to fill a
  position if funds and needs continue
• Can be either part-time or full- time
• Hours worked make a difference
• Special attention to interim employees and six
  month rule
• Chart for summary

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Benefits Who is eligible?

• PT employees work at least 20 but not more than
  30 hours per work
• Eligible for pro-rated benefits like vacation,
  holidays, sick leave, personal leave, retirement
  and disability

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Benefits Who is eligible?

• FT is an employee who works the regular work week
  for that class of employee, but not less than 30
  hours
• Two or more positions can be combined
• Earns retirement at 30 hours
• Earns it all
• Tips for interim employee

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Use of Leave

• Types of leave available
• sick leave
• extended sick leave
• voluntary shared sick leave
• personal leave
• holiday leave
• vacation/annual leave
• FMLA leave
• special leave

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Use of leave sick leave

• Eligible for period of temporary disability which
  prevent an employee from doing the job
• Medical appointments
• Death or family illness but the LEA can determine
  length
• LEA can ask for verification
• Other notes of interest
• Benefits of saving sick leave

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Use of leave extended sick leave and personal
leave

• Available for classroom teachers and media
  personnel who require a substitute only
• Specific earning rates
• ESL limited to personal illness only
• Personal leave open
• Pay is deducted

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Use of leave voluntary shared leave

• Available for serious medical condition of self
  or immediate family member
• LEA decides eligibility
• Donations open to all LEA and State agencies
  depending on relationships
• Has specific criteria to follow

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Use of leave holiday

• Earning based on same number of legal holidays as
  designated by State Personnel Commission
• Veterans Day must be a student holiday
• Extra day for Christmas when it falls on a
  Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday
• Bona fide religious holidays limited to two

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Use of leave vacation/annual

• Earnings based on years of state service
• Restrictions for teachers and bus drivers
• Used in lieu of sick leave
• Accumulations and conversions
• Upon separation a payoff
• Use for birth or adoption

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Use of leave FMLA

• Specific eligibly rules
• For birth or adoption of a child and for care of
  a child
• Also for medical conditions of self or immediate
  family
• Limited to 12 weeks of either paid or unpaid
  leave
• LEA sets the starting time
• Carry-over into the summer

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Use of leave special leave

• Educational/professional
• Civic responsibility
• Parental
• Military leave
• Episode of violence
• FLSA Comp time
• Workers compensation
• Others

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Special items of interest

• To be a substitute or not to be a substitute,
  that is the question
• a person that is hired to fill a position for a
  permanent employee who is still on payroll and
  using paid leave
• can use teacher assistant if LEA has policy but
  changes the pay

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Special items of interest

• Media coordinators as teachers or instructional
  support positions
• LEA decision
• Depends on function and use
• Depends on the need for a substitute
• Depends of daily contact with assigned students
• Impacts benefits earned

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Special items of interest

• Interim employees are not substitutes
• Interim employees are individuals hired to fill a
  vacancy caused by
• separation of employment, leave without pay,
  disability, episode of violence or the inability
  to find a person to fill a vacancy
• pay may vary and source of much confusion

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Hiring retired individuals

• Hiring retirees subject to the income cap
• Open to all employees
• Earnings limitations placed by the Retirement
  System
• Cap is higher of two figures
• 23,600 adjusted each year,or
• 50 of the previous 12 months salary

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Hiring retired individuals

• Hiring retirees exempt from the cap
• At present, open for classroom teachers only
• Must do no other work in the previous 6 months
  other than substitute or serve as a part-time
  tutor
• Retains many of FT employee benefits

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Hiring retired individuals

• Keys to understanding law
• must be a substitute
• must be retired 6 months prior to employment
• must show a clear break in service
• law expires June 30, 2003
• cannot be an interim teacher, a teacher paid as a
  substitute, a volunteer, contracted teacher or
  subject to cap

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Hiring retired individuals

• Penalty for violation is severe loss of
  retirement
• Being closely monitored
• Whole retirement issue under close examination
  this spring
• A big issue regarding personnel shortages and the
  requirements of No Child Left Behind

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Where to go for help !

• Personnel Administrators in your school system
• Finance Officers in your school system
• Web sites
• www.ncpublicschools.org/esea/
• www.ncpublicschools/fbs/schlbus/SchPerSupp.htm
• www.ncpublicschools/benemanual/

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Questions and Answers (maybe)

• Gary Jarrett, Section Chief, School Personnel
  Support gjarrett_at_dpi.state.nc.us or 919-807-3364
• Marcie Holland, Personnel Analyst, School
  Personnel Support mholland_at_dpi.state.nc.us or
  919-807-3366
• Joe Parry-Hill, Personnel Analyst, School
  Personnel Support jparry_at_dpi.state.nc.us or
  919-807-3368