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The District may temporarily grant a reduced workload to full-time faculty members, offering an opportunity for flexibility in the schedule of its faculty.
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24.1.1 |
To participate, a faculty member must have been continuously employed as a full-time faculty member by the District for the ten (10) years preceding application, and have not utilized other paid options (excluding leaves covered in Article X, Sections 10.1 through 10.7) within the preceding five (5) years.
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24.1.2 |
The reduction in load may be for a maximum of two (2) consecutive semesters with one (1) application.
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24.1.3 |
Except for extenuating circumstances, and excluding disability leaves and health/emergency type leaves covered in Article X, Sections 10.1 through 10.7, the total number of faculty exercising various leave and reduced workload options shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the full-time faculty within an academic year.
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24.1.4 |
It is recognized by the District that an employee participating in the reduction of workload is on an approved leave of absence, and has all of the rights of a faculty member on any approved leave of absence. Participants who average a seventy percent (70%) or greater load for the year will qualify for step advancement as usual.
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24.1.5 |
Faculty members on a reduced workload leave shall have the right to return to full-time status, with an assignment comparable to that held prior to the commencement of the load reduction.
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24.1.6 |
Participants will be subject to reduction in force decisions, pursuant to Article XXI and Appendix E, and to reassignment decisions, pursuant to Article XVIII, while in reduced workload status.
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24.1.7 |
Application and Approval Process |
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The application will be submitted to the appropriate Dean. Those requests willl then be forwarded to the Superintendent President by February 15th. |
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Following Presidential review and approval, supported requests shall be forwarded to the Board for approval. |
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24.1.8 |
The amount of load reduced shall not exceed fifty percent (50%) of the normal full-time load of fourteen (14) to sixteen (16) lecture equivalent hours per semester (the remaining load taught must be at least seven (7) L.E.H.).
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24.1.9 |
The faculty member in reduced-load status will receive the percentage of his/her salary that corresponds to the remaining work load (e.g., a faculty member with a forty percent (40%) reduction in load will be working sixty percent (60%) of his/her full-time salary).
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24.1.10 |
The faculty member in reduced-workload status will be entitled to the percentage of the benefit package that corresponds with the remaining workload (see Section 24.1.11). He/she may pay the balance needed to complete the benefit coverage.
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24.1.11 |
Additional benefit payments paid by the reduced-load faculty member, as referenced in Section 24.1.11, will be deducted from the reduced-load salary each month, and will be so noted on the monthly pay warrant.
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24.1.12 |
The District will contribute to STRS an amount (based upon the faculty member's salary) that corresponds with the reduced workload.
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24.1.13 |
The faculty member in reduced-load status must contribute to STRS the regular contribution plus that portion of the employer's normal contribution which the employer is not currently making.
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24.1.14 |
Once a faculty member has requested a reduced workload, and the request has been approved by the President, it may be cancelled only by mutual agreement.
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| 24.2 |
The District may grant a reduced workload to full-time faculty members who are 55 or over, but no older than 70, with benefits based on full-time employment, as authorized by Ed Code sections 87483 and 22713 |
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| 24.2.1 |
To participate in this program, a faculty member must have continuously employed as full-time faculty member by the District for the ten (10) years of which the immediate preceding five (5) years were full-time employment without a break in service. |
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| 24.2.2 |
Application and approval process: applications to the appropriate dean shall be accepted beginning July 1, 2006. No more than two (2) faculty members shall participate in this program at any given time. Faculty members participating in this program are not eligible for any other retirement incentive |
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| 24.2.3 |
The minimum load shall be one-half of a full-time load or one-half of the number of the days of service required for the academic year |
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| 24.2.4 |
The faculty member in reduced-workload status shall receive the pro rata share of the salary earned as if she/he continued in full-time employment |
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| 24.2.5 |
The faculty member in reduced-workload status shall receive the same full benefit package as a full-time unit member |