This workbook is geared towards District Human Resources Staff with more than 3 years of experience.

Topics Include:

• Hiring and Retaining Employees with Criminal Records
  • Introduction
  • Defining Terms
  • Classified Employees
  • Student Employees—87406.5
• Employment of Temporary Faculty Members
  • Employment of Academic Employees in Categorically Funded Projects
  • Employment of Adjunct Faculty
• Leaves for Academic Employees
  • Industrial Injury Leave—87787
  • Family Sick Leave and Personal Necessity Leave
  • Sabbatical Leave
• Catastrophic Leave
  • Overview
  • Requirements for Donating Leave
  • Donation and Use of Eligible Leave Credits
  • Adoption of Rules and Regulations
  • Collectively Bargained Catastrophic Leave Policies
• Termination of Academic Employees
  • Overview and Grounds
  • The 90-Day Notice:  Prerequisite to Charging Unprofessional Conduct or Unsatisfactory Performance
  • Immoral Conduct
  • Evident Unfitness for Service
  • Persistent Violation of or Refusal to Obey the State’s School Laws or Reasonable Regulations
  • of the Board of Governors or the Board of Trustees (Insubordination)
  • Steps in the Disciplinary Process
  • The Four-Year Rule
  • Hearing Rights:  Arbitrator or Administrative Law Judge
• Layoffs of Academic Employees
  • Grounds for Academic Layoffs
  • Composition of the List:  Who Gets In and Who Does Not
  • Order of the List: Calculating Faculty Seniority
  • Implementation of the List
• Status and Rights of Child Development Center (CDC) Teachers
  • Overview
  • CDC Teachers are Academic Employees, but Not Faculty
  • CDC Teachers may Acquire Permanent Status, but Not Tenure
  • The Layoff and Reemployment Rights of CDC Permit Teachers
• Personal Service Contracts
  • Overview
  • Personal Service Contracts to Achieve Cost Savings
  • Personal Service Contracts for Unique or Specialized Services
  • Collective Bargaining Issues
• Administrator Contracts
  • Employment by Assignment or Contract
  • Nonrenewal of Administrator Contracts
  • Substitute or “Acting” Administrators
  • Discipline and Dismissal of Administrators
• Disability Allowance and Disability Retirement
  • Overview
  • Differences Between Disability Allowance and Disability Retirement
  • Reinstatement
  • Disability Allowance Generally
  • Disability Retirement Generally
  • District Obligations
  • Education Code Sections Cited