Section 89516 Of Article 1. General Provisions From California Education Code >> Division 8. >> Title 3. >> Part 55. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 1.
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. The trustees may establish rules and regulations which allow
academic teaching employees, librarians, counselors, and student
affairs officers to reduce their workload from full-time to part-time
duties.
Such regulations shall include but shall not be limited to the
following if such employees wish to reduce their workload and
maintain retirement benefits pursuant to Section 20815 of the
Government Code:
(a) The employee must have reached the age of 55 prior to
reduction in workload.
(b) The employee must have been employed full-time as an academic
employee for at least 10 years of which the immediately preceding
five years were full-time employment. For purposes of this
subdivision, sabbatical and other approved leaves shall not
constitute a break in service. However, time spent on sabbatical or
on other approved leaves shall not be used in satisfying the
five-year full-time employment requirement.
(c) The option of part-time employment must be exercised at the
request of the employee and can be revoked only with the mutual
consent of the employer and the employee.
(d) The employee shall be paid a salary which is the pro rata
share of the salary the employee would be earning had the employee
not elected to exercise the option of part-time employment but shall
retain all other rights and benefits for which the employee makes the
payments that would be required if the employee remained in
full-time employment.
The employee shall receive health benefits in the same manner as a
full-time employee.
This section shall only be applicable to academic teaching
employees, librarians, counselors, and student affairs officers who
receive no higher salary than the maximum paid to a department
chairman.
If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the
provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to
Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 3560) of Division 4 of Title 1 of
the Government Code, the memorandum of understanding shall be
controlling without further legislative action, except that if such
provisions of a memorandum of understanding require the expenditure
of funds, the provisions shall not become effective unless approved
by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.