Article 8. Salaries of California Education Code >> Division 7. >> Title 3. >> Part 51. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 8.

The governing board of a community college district shall fix and order paid the compensation of persons employed by the board as academic employees unless otherwise prescribed by law.

The governing board of each community college district shall adopt and cause to be printed and made available to each academic employee a schedule of salaries to be paid.

The governing board of a community college district may employ such temporary employees of the district as it deems necessary and shall adopt and make public a salary schedule setting the daily or pay period rate or rates for temporary employees. This section shall not be construed as modifying or repealing any law fixing a minimum annual salary for employees of district.

The governing board of a community college district may at any time during any school year increase the salaries of persons employed by the district in academic positions. The increase shall be effective on any date ordered by the governing board.

The governing board of community college district shall not decrease the annual salary of a person employed by the district in an academic position for failure to meet any requirement of the district that the person complete additional educational units, course of study, or work in any college or university or any equivalent thereof.

If a community college district fails to pay the salary of any person employed by it in an academic position who has on file a contract of employment held valid by the legal adviser of the county superintendent of schools having jurisdiction over the district, that county superintendent of schools may transfer sufficient money from the funds of the district to the county school service fund and pay the salary from that fund.

Whenever a person has rendered service in an academic position, or the governing board of a district has employed a person in an academic position or the county superintendent has drawn an order for a warrant in favor of a person in an academic position, for a period of service during which the person did not have the qualifications required for the position as required by law, and when as a result thereof the employment of the person to render the service, the rendering of the service, the inclusion of the attendance of students taught by the person in the average daily attendance of the district, or the drawing of the order warrant for the service of that person, is in violation of any provision of this code, the employment, rendering of service, inclusion of attendance, or drawing of the order for the warrant shall be deemed fully legal for all purposes if the board of governors approves thereof in accordance with this section. The board of governors shall adopt rules and regulations to establish procedures for a review in those cases and shall determine whether the rendering of the service shall be approved and made fully legal for all purposes. If the board gives its approval to the rendering of such service, then the employment, inclusion of attendance, and drawing of the order for the warrant shall be automatically approved and made fully legal for all purposes. Unless and until amended by the board of governors, the regulations shall provide that the rendering of the service shall be approved if either of the following circumstances apply:
  (a) The board determines that the person rendering the service had the necessary qualifications during the period of service in question.
  (b) The district governing board determines, through a process that meets the requirements of Section 87359, and based on reasonable evidence, that the person rendering the service had qualifications that are at least equivalent to the qualifications specified in regulations of the board of governors.

A person in an academic position who serves less than a full school year shall receive as salary only an amount that bears the same ratio to the established annual salary for the position as the number of working days he or she serves bears to the total number of working days plus institutes in the annual school term, and any other day when the employee is required by the governing board to be present at the schools of the district. Notwithstanding any provisions of this section to the contrary, a person in an academic position who serves a complete semester shall receive not less than one-half of the established annual salary for the position. This section shall not be so construed as to prevent the payment of compensation to a person while on leave of absence when the payment of the compensation is authorized by law. In the event any such person dies during the school year, his or her estate shall be entitled to receive, as salary owed to the decedent, an amount that bears the same ratio to the established annual salary for the position as the number of working days he or she served bears to the total number of working days plus institutes in the annual school term, and any other day when the employee was required by the governing board to be present at the schools of the district, less any salary paid to the decedent prior to his or her death.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 87815, the governing board of a community college district may adopt an alternative method of computing the salary received by an academic employee who serves less than a full school year. The alternative method shall include the deduction from the employee's regular salary of only that amount actually paid to a substitute or, if a substitute is not employed, the amount which would have been paid to a substitute had a substitute been employed. For the purposes of this section, the amount which would have been paid to a substitute is that amount established by the district in a published salary schedule for substitute employees. The alternative method shall only be applied upon authorization by the community college board based upon individual employee application and shall be limited to no more than five days per school year for each employee.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 87815 or any other provision of law to the contrary, if a person is employed by a community college district in an academic position at the beginning of the second semester of a school year for services during that semester, the compensation of the employee shall be not less than one-half of the annual compensation for that position.

Whenever a salary schedule increasing the salaries of its academic employees is adopted by a community college district to be effective at the commencement of the second semester of a school year:
  (a) The compensation of the employees shall not exceed one-half of the annual compensation for their positions under the former salary schedule for services during the first semester.
  (b) The compensation of the employees shall not be less than one-half of the annual compensation for their positions under the newly adopted salary schedule for services during the second semester. This section shall not be construed to limit the time at which any salary increase ordered by the governing board shall become effective.

Each salary payment for any calendar month may be made on the last working day of the month and shall be paid not earlier than the last working day of the month and not later than the fifth day of the succeeding calendar month except that faculty employed for less than full time in classes for adults, in a day or evening community college, shall be paid on or before the 10th day of the succeeding calendar month for services performed during the preceding calendar month. If the community college district provides for the payment of the salary of employees employed in academic positions once each two weeks, twice a month, or once each four weeks, each salary payment may be made on the last working day of the payroll period and shall be made not earlier than the last working day of the payroll period and not later than the eighth working day of the following payroll period. This section shall not prohibit a district from making a payment of earned salary prior to the last working day of the month or payroll period.

Except as provided in Section 87790, when any community college district employs an academic employee to perform instruction or other services in addition to his or her regular instructing duties, or when a district employs an academic employee to perform instructing or other services at a summer school maintained by the district, the district shall pay the employee for those services either in one lump sum or at an hourly, daily, biweekly, quadriweekly, or monthly rate of pay. If the pay is in one lump sum, the district shall pay the employee within 10 days after the termination of the services. If the pay is at an hourly, daily, biweekly, quadriweekly or monthly rate, the district shall pay the employee within 10 days after the end of each calendar month or pay period during which the services are performed.

Instead of issuing a single warrant to each employee for salary or wages the district may use a payroll form of warrant making payment to two or more employees on one payroll warrant.

When the payroll form of warrant is used, the approved and allowed payroll warrant shall be deposited with the county treasurer, who shall make payment to the employee or his order.

When the payroll form of warrant is used the name of each employee shall be listed.

Except as otherwise provided in this code, no warrant shall be drawn in favor of any academic employee, unless the officer whose duty it is to draw the warrant is satisfied that the employee has faithfully performed all the duties prescribed.

Whenever reports are required to be filed with the county superintendent of schools by academic employees of districts authorized to issue warrants under the provision of Section 85266 and the reports have not been filed, the county superintendent of schools may direct the district in writing to withhold the salary payment due the employee involved. The payment should not be released to the employee until directed in writing by the county superintendent of schools.

For the purposes of Section 395 of the Military and Veterans Code or any other provision of law providing for the payment of salary or compensation to an employee of a community college district while absent from duty because he or she is engaged in ordered military or naval duty, the employee's salary or compensation for 30 days shall (a), with respect to an employee serving in an academic position, be deemed to be one-tenth of the annual salary established for the position and (b), with respect to an employee serving in a classified position, be deemed to be one month's salary.

Except as provided in Section 87834, the governing board of each community college district, when drawing an order for the salary payment due to an academic employee of the district, shall with or without charge reduce the order by the amount which the board has been requested in a revocable written authorization by the employee to deduct for the purpose of paying the dues of the employee for membership in any local professional organization, or in any statewide professional organization, or in any other professional organization affiliated or otherwise connected with a statewide professional organization which authorizes the statewide organization to receive membership dues on its behalf and for the purpose of paying his or her pro rata share of the costs incurred by the district in making the deduction. No charge shall exceed the actual cost to the district of the dues deduction. Any revocation of a written authorization shall be in writing and shall be effective commencing with the next pay period. Unless otherwise provided in an agreement negotiated pursuant to Chapter 10.7 (commencing with Section 3540) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code, the governing board shall, no later than the 10th day of each pay period for academic employees, draw its order upon the funds of the district in favor of the organization designated by the employee for an amount equal to the total of the dues deductions made with respect to that organization for the previous pay period and shall transmit the total amount to that organization no later than the 15th day of each pay period for academic employees. When timely transmittal of dues payments by a county is necessary for a community college district to comply with the provisions of this section, the county shall act in a timely manner. If the employees of a district do not authorize the board to make a deduction to pay their pro rata share of the costs of making deductions for the payment of dues, the board shall deduct from the amount transmitted to the organization on whose account the dues payments were deducted the actual costs of making the deduction. The revocable written authorization shall remain in effect until expressly revoked in writing by the employee. Whenever there is a change in the amount required for the payment to the organization, the employee organization shall provide the employee with adequate and necessary data on the change at a time sufficiently prior to the effective date of the change to allow the employee an opportunity to revoke the written authorization, if desired. The employee organization shall provide the public school employer with notification of the change at a time sufficiently prior to the effective date of the change to allow the employer an opportunity to make the necessary adjustments and with a copy of the notification of the change which has been sent to all concerned employees. The governing board shall not require the completion of a new deduction authorization when a dues change has been effected or at any other time without the express approval of the concerned employee organization.

The governing board of each community college district when drawing an order for the salary or wage payment due to an academic employee of the district shall, with or without charge, reduce the order for the payment of service fees to the certified or recognized organization as required in an organizational security arrangement between the exclusive representative and a public school employer as provided under Chapter 10.7 (commencing with Section 3540) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code. However, the organizational security arrangement shall provide that any employee may pay service fees directly to the certified or recognized employee organization in lieu of having the service fees deducted from the salary or wage order. If the employees of a district do not authorize the board to make a deduction to pay their pro rata share of the costs of making deductions for the payment of service fees to the certificated or recognized organization, the board shall deduct from the amount transmitted to the organization on whose account the payments were deducted the actual costs, if any, of making the deduction. No charge shall exceed the actual cost to the district of the deduction. These actual costs shall be determined by the board and shall include startup and ongoing costs.

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the governing board of a community college district that collects or deducts dues, agency fees, fair share fees, or any other fee or amount of money from the salary of an academic employee for the purpose of transmitting the money to an employee organization shall transmit the money to the employee organization within 15 days of issuing the paycheck containing the deduction to the employee.
  (b) (1) This section does not limit the right of an employee organization or affected employee to sue for a failure of the employer to transmit dues or fees pursuant to this section.
  (2) In an action brought for a violation of subdivision (a), the court may award reasonable attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party if any party to the action requests attorney fees and costs.