Employment Option If the State determines that it would be in the State’s best interest to hire an employee of the Contractor, the Contractor will release the selected employee from any non-competition agreements that may be in effect. This release will be at no cost to the State or the employee.
’ Compensation Leave If such determination cannot readily be made and all healthcare leave or annual leave subject to 100% payoff has been applied to the absence, the employee shall be placed on Official Leave until a final determination is made.
Retirement Incentive To recognize the contribution of those employees who have provided long and dedicated service to the district, the Board shall provide a retirement incentive to teachers who meet the following eligibility requirements:
a. the teacher must have completed 15 years of service to District #34 by the date of his or her retirement;
b. the teacher must submit a written, irrevocable, notice of intent to retire to the Superintendent by no later than August 1 of the start of the retirement incentive period; and
c. the teacher must not have received an increase of greater than 6% in creditable earnings (excluding any grandfathered or exempt earnings) in the three (3) school years immediately preceding the proposed start of the retirement incentive. In up to each of the final four years of his/her employment, the teacher shall receive an incentive of 5% over his/her prior year’s base salary (which in the second, third and fourth year of the incentive includes the prior year’s retirement incentive). In the event that the State of Illinois should raise the maximum allowable percent increase, the Board will honor an increase up to 6% so long as the district does not incur any penalty. Once the teacher begins to receive the retirement incentive, he/she shall not be eligible for earnings from extra duties or summer school, stipends, and/or any other type of compensation that could result in the Board’s obligation to pay any additional contribution or “penalty” to TRS. However, the teacher may submit a request to the Superintendent’s office to continue performing paid extra duties or to earn additional compensation, so long as any such additional compensation would not result in the teacher receiving a greater than 6% increase over his/her prior year’s creditable earnings. The Superintendent’s grant or denial of such request shall be non-precedential and non-grievable. Any payment necessary to ensure the retiring employee receives an incentive of 5% shall be made in a lump sum each year by no later than June 30th. In the event a certified employee who tenders his or her irrevocable letter of resignation experiences a drastic and unanticipated change in personal circumstances, the Board may, at its option, permit the certified employee to revoke his or her irrevocable letter of resignation. In the event the Illinois General Assembly enacts any legislation during the term of this Agreement, which legislation would require the District to pay any additional moneys (or lose any additional revenues) to the State of Illinois and/or the Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System on account of its payment of this retirement incentive, then this retirement incentive shall cease to exist at the end of the current school term. However, prior to the cessation of the benefit, either party may demand to bargain concerning whether some or all of the retirement incentive can be continued without adding any additional costs to the District. Eligibility to submit a request to receive this incentive shall terminate on August 1, 2021, and any such request received prior to August 1, 2021, must be for retirement to occur no later than the end of the 2024-2025 school year.
Disability Leave a. An employee who has suffered possible injury in the performance of assigned duties shall immediately undergo such medical examination as the appointing authority deems necessary. He or she shall not be considered absent from duty during the time required for such examination.
b. A regular employee who is unable to perform any appropriate work assignment because of disability incurred in the performance of assigned duties shall be entitled to the following disability leave benefits, in addition to those provided pursuant to the California Worker's Compensation Insurance Act.
(1) During any period of disability for which payment is not provided under Worker's Compensation Insurance, the employee shall be placed on disability leave with pay to the extent of any leave with pay which he or she has accrued. Such disability leave with pay shall be charged against the employee's accrued leave with pay.
(2) During any period of disability for which payment is provided under Worker's Compensation Insurance, the employee shall elect either:
(a) Retain any Workers' Compensation Benefits received during the pay period and receive full pay. The employee shall use their accrued sick leave, vacation CTO and HIL on an hour- for-hour basis to cover all hours the employee is absent from duty due to the work-related disability during the applicable pay period. Or,
(b) Retain any Workers' Compensation Benefits received during the pay period and receive a partial paycheck in an amount so that the partial pay and the Workers' Compensation Benefits added together are equivalent to the employee's full pay. The employee shall use their accrued sick leave, vacation, CTO, and HIL in an amount equal to one-half of the number of hours the employee was absent from work during the pay period due to the work-related disability. If, however, the amount of the Workers' Compensation Benefits is subtracted from the employee's full pay for the time off due to the disability, and the remainder is less than one-half of the amount of such full pay, then only the number of leave balance hours necessary to equal that remainder shall be charged.
(3) The choice of either (2)(a) or (2)(b) above shall be an irrevocable choice for the duration of the disability leave resulting from the work- related injury. However, if the employee returns to work for a period of at least thirty (30) calendar days, the employee may again elect to choose either option b.(2)(a) or b.(2)(b) for any subsequent disability leave taken as a result of (or relating to) the same injury.
c. All disability leave provisions of this section shall terminate when the employee uses all accrued sick leave, vacation, CTO or HIL balances, or upon the date of the employee's recovery from disability, receipt of permanent disability under Workers' Compensation Insurance, retirement, termination from County employment, or death.
Severance and Retirement Options (i) Where an employee resigns within 30 days after receiving notice of layoff pursuant to article 14.02 (a)(ii) that his or her position will be eliminated, he or she shall be entitled to a separation allowance of two (2) weeks' salary for each year of continuous service to a maximum of sixteen (16) weeks' pay, and, on production of receipts from an approved educational program, within twelve (12) months of resignation, may be reimbursed for tuition fees up to a maximum of three thousand ($3,000) dollars.
(ii) Where an employee resigns later than 30 days after receiving notice pursuant to article 14.02(a)(ii) that his or her position will be eliminated, he or she shall be entitled to a separation allowance of four (4) weeks' salary, and, on production of receipts from an approved educational program, within twelve (12) months of resignation, may be reimbursed for tuition fees up to a maximum of one thousand two hundred and fifty ($1,250) dollars.
(b) Prior to issuing notice of layoff pursuant to article 14.02(a)(ii) in any classification(s), the Hospital will offer early-retirement allowance to a sufficient number of employees eligible for early retirement under HOOPP within the classification(s) in order of seniority, to the extent that the maximum number of employees within a classification who elect early retirement is equivalent to the number of employees within the classification(s) who would otherwise receive notice of layoff under article 14.02(a)(ii). Within thirty (30) days from the date of notice of layoff, an employee who has received notice of layoff of a permanent or long-term nature may retire provided that the employee is eligible to retire under the terms of the Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan. An employee who chooses this option forfeits her right to notice and will receive severance pay on the basis of two (2) weeks’ pay for each year of service with the Hospital to a maximum of fifty-two (52) weeks on the basis of the employees normal weekly earnings. In addition, full-time employees will receive a lump sum payment equal to $1,000.00 for every year less than age 65, to a maximum of $5,000.00.