Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
Compensation, as used in this manual,
is an inclusive term which shall refer to salary or wages plus all fringe
benefits. Salary and wages shall be defined as direct monetary payment for
services rendered. In the cases where regularly scheduled part-time employees
are granted benefits, the benefits apply only if the employee is regularly
scheduled to work a minimum of twenty hours per week.
(A)
Compensatry
time.
The compensatory time policy includes
the following considerations:
(1)
Non-exempt
employees must be paid for all hours worked. Any hours worked beyond forty
hours in a work week (hourly work week is Sunday through Saturday) must be
compensated at time-and-one-half the normal hourly rate. Employees have
discretion in being paid overtime for actual hours worked or can bank the
overtime hours to be used as compensatory time. Example: Non-exempt employee
works forty-four hours in one pay period -- He/she opts to bank the overtime
instead of being paid time -- and-a-half -- The employee can bank six hours
(four hours times 1.5). The maximum number of hours that may be accrued is two
hundred and forty. Any hours over two hundred and forty must be paid as cash
overtime. Compensatory time must be used in the fiscal year in which it is
earned; however, forty hours may be carried over to the next fiscal year with
the remaining balance paid out in the next or following pay period.
Non-exempt employees who receive
approval from the college to work during an emergency/weather closure will earn
time-and-a-half for the hours they actually work during the closure period. If
the college is open, no overtime or compensatory time will be earned or
accrued.
(2)
Non-exempt employees must apply to use compensatory
time by completing a leave request form which is signed by the appropriate
supervisor. Supervisors must grant use of compensatory time within a reasonable
period that will not unduly interrupt the normal business operation of the
department or division.
(3)
Upon termination of employment or reclassification of a
non-exempt employee, all accrued unused compensatory time must be paid out
within the last or following pay period.
(B)
Salaries
recommended by the president.
Salaries for administrative,
instructional, and support Staff employees shall be recommended by the
president and approved by the board of trustees. The president's salary shall
be established by the board of trustees. The following shall be used as
guidelines in the determination of salaries and wages for full-time and
part-time personnel:
(1)
Entry employment salaries and wages shall be based on
the salary and wage schedule of the college which takes into consideration the
education and experience of the candidate.
(2)
Recommendations
for subsequent salaries shall be presented by the president to the board of
trustees.
(C)
Part-time instructional salaries.
(1)
Part-time faculty
are paid according to the payment schedule for part-time and overload
instructional employees.
(2)
Instructional employees teaching courses on an
independent study basis will be paid one hundred and fifty dollars per student
per course. Procedures for offering independent study courses are described in
rule 3358:17-60-03 of the Administrative Code. The exceptions to the salary schedule described in paragraph (A) of this rule are music studio courses which consist of private lessons. In these situations the instructor will be paid the flat rate per student enrolled, plus an hourly rate based on the total times scheduled for private lessons. Students enrolling in music studio courses will pay a studio fee in addition to the tuition for the course.
(D)
Retirement.
(1)
All employees of the college other than students of the
college are required to join the school employees retirement system ("SERS") of
Ohio, state teachers retirement system ("STRS") of Ohio, or an alternative
retirement plan ("ARP").
(2)
The college will pay the employee's share of the
retirement contribution, up to ten per cent of compensation earned. The college
will not pay any of the employee's share of the retirement contribution for
Washington state community college work study students and student
employees.
(E)
Insurance.
(1)
The college will offer medical, vision and dental
policies for full-time and regularly scheduled part-time employees and eligible
dependents who participate in the group insurance plan.
(2)
The premiums for
the health, vision and dental insurances will be shared by the college and the
employee. Regularly-scheduled part-time employees' eligibility commences the
beginning of their third year of employment and they share costs according to a
schedule on file in the office of human resources.
(3)
If a full-time
employee's hours are involuntarily reduced to regularly scheduled part-time,
and such employee has completed two thousand and eighty hours of work, the
employee may purchase health, vision or dental insurance and share costs as
outlined in paragraph (E)(2) of this rule.
