Common use of Reduced Service Option Clause in Contracts

Reduced Service Option. 1. Employees may reduce their workload from full-time to part-time and have their retirement benefits based on full-time employment. 2. To qualify for this program, the employee shall have the following prerequisites: a. Ten years of prior full-time service in a position requiring certification in this District. b. Attained the age of 55 prior to the beginning of school year or term in which the reduction in service begins. It shall be the employee's responsibility to initiate the request for reduced service. 3. The agreement or contract for reduced service shall be executed by the employee and employer, in writing, prior to the period of reduced service at the beginning of the school year. The agreement can be revoked only with the mutual consent of the employee and employer. Application for reduced service shall be filed by April 15, of the school year preceding the year requested. Applications after this date will be considered on an individual emergency basis. 4. Reduced service shall not be for less than one-half of the number of days of service required by the employee's contract of employment during his/her final year of service in a full-time position. 5. Reduced service may be on a daily schedule or full-time for at least one-half year. The employee shall be paid a salary which is the pro rata share of the salary he/she would be earning had he/she not elected to exercise the option of part-time employment. The employee shall retain all other rights and benefits, for which he/she or the District makes the payments that he/she would be entitled to if he/she remained in full-time employment. 6. Part-time service is limited to a period not to exceed five (5) years, and no employee shall participate after attaining the age of 65. This means that if the employee enters the reduced service program at age 55, he/she shall retire at age 60. Any employee in the program who reaches age 65 during the school year may continue reduced service for the balance of that year. 7. The District reserves the right to deny granting a reduced workload to any employee if doing so would create very unusual and difficult staffing problems. A denial, however, shall be only temporary and the employee may reapply for the program and make the effective date for the following school year or school term. 8. The employee and employer agree to submit contributions to the State Teachers Retirement System based on the compensation which would be earned for full-time employment. 9. Full retirement credits are not earned until the end of the full school year. Participants who terminate prior to these concluding periods will receive retirement credit based on the salary actually paid in the proportion that it relates to the annual salary that would have been paid had the employment continued.

Reduced Service Option. 1. Employees may reduce their workload from full-time to part-time and have their retirement benefits based on full-time employment. 2. To qualify for this program, the employee shall have the following prerequisites: a. Ten years of prior full-time service in a position requiring certification in this District. b. Attained the age of 55 prior to the beginning of school year or term in which the reduction in service begins. It shall be the employee's responsibility to initiate the request for reduced service. 3. The agreement or contract for reduced service shall be executed by the employee and employer, in writing, prior to the period of reduced service at the beginning of the school year. The agreement can be revoked only with the mutual consent of the employee and employer. Application for reduced service shall be filed by April 15, of the school year preceding the year requested. Applications after this date will be considered on an individual emergency basis. 4. Reduced service shall not be for less than one-half of the number of days of service required by the employee's contract of employment during his/her final year of service in a full-time position. 5. Reduced service may be on a daily schedule or full-time for at least one-half year. The employee shall be paid a salary which is the pro rata share of the salary he/she would be earning had he/she not elected to exercise the option of part-time employment. The employee shall retain all other rights and benefits, for which he/she or the District makes the payments that he/she would be entitled to if he/she remained in full-time employment. 6. Part-time service is limited to a period not to exceed five (5) years, and no employee shall participate after attaining the age of 65. This means that if the employee enters the reduced service program at age 55, he/she shall retire at age 60. Any employee in the program who reaches age 65 during the school year may continue reduced service for the balance of that year. 7. The District reserves the right to deny granting a reduced workload to any employee if doing so would create very unusual and difficult staffing problems. A denial, however, shall be only temporary and the employee may reapply for the program and make the effective date for the following school year or school term. 8. The employee and employer agree to submit contributions to the State Teachers Retirement System based on the compensation which would be earned for full-time employment. 9. Full retirement credits are not earned until the end of the full school year. Participants who terminate prior to these concluding periods will receive retirement credit based on the salary actually paid in the proportion that it relates to the annual salary that would have been paid had the employment continued.