Section 45139 Of Article 1. Employment From California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 25. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 1.
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. Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the
governing board of a school district or county superintendent of
schools may establish regulations which allow their classified
employees to reduce their workload from full-time to part-time
duties.
The regulations shall include, but shall not be limited to, the
following, if classified employees wish to reduce their workload and
maintain retirement benefits pursuant to Section 20819 of the
Government Code:
(a) The classified employee shall have reached the age of 55 prior
to reduction in workload.
(b) The classified employee shall have been employed full time in
a classified position for at least 10 years of which the immediately
preceding five years were full-time employment.
(c) During the period immediately preceding a request for a
reduction in workload, the classified employee shall have been
employed full time in a classified position for a total of at least
five years without a break in service.
(d) The option of part-time employment shall be exercised at the
request of the classified employee and can be revoked only with the
mutual consent of the employer and the classified employee.
(e) The classified employee shall be paid a salary which is the
pro rata share of the salary he or she would be earning had he or she
not elected to exercise the option of part-time employment but shall
retain all other rights and benefits for which he or she makes the
payments that would be required if he or she remained in full-time
employment.
The classified employee shall receive health benefits as provided
in Section 53201 of the Government Code in the same manner as a
full-time classified employee.
(f) The minimum part-time employment shall be the equivalent to
one-half of the number of hours of service required by the classified
employee's contract of employment during his or her final year of
service in a full-time classified position.
(g) The period of the part-time classified employment shall not
exceed five years.
(h) The period of the part-time classified employment shall not
extend beyond the end of the school year during which the classified
employee reaches his or her 70th birthday.