Master Agreement 2005 - State Employment Relations Board

704.03 The non-retention in employment or the reduction
of assignment below six (6) hours per day on a regular
basis of full-time hourly professional employees (teachers)
resulting from program cancellations or other cutbacks
shall be accomplished on the basis of seniority
among full-time hourly professional employees in the
system within the program and area of certification
affected by the reduction with the following stipulations:
A. Seniority shall be measured from the first day of paid
status in the earliest year of continuous employment
by the Board of Education. To qualify as a year of
continuous employment, the employee must have
worked a minimum of 37 weeks with a minimum of
six (6) hours per day on a regular basis during the
year.
B. Such teachers shall be considered in a layoff status
and shall be recalled in the order of seniority as contract
or full-time hourly positions are available for
which they are certified. Such teachers as may be
recalled to contract teaching positions may, at the
option of the Board, be reassigned at the end of the
school year to a full-time hourly teaching position.
C. All provisions of Section 704.02 of this article not in
conflict with Section 704.03 shall also apply to fulltime
hourly professional employees.
D. Anyfull-time hourly professional employee whose
assignment is reduced to less than six (6) hours per
day on a regular basis shall be considered on layoff
status; however, such employee may elect to remain
in the less thanfull-time position without prejudicing
hisorher rights under 704.03(B) above.
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