Common use of Compensation and Credit Clause in Contracts

Compensation and Credit. A. Persons granted sabbatical leave shall be paid one-half the salary that would have been earned if they were on active service at that time. Individuals shall be paid their salary for the term of the sabbatical leave in the following way: (1) The individual shall receive one-half salary and full health benefits during the leave, in the same manner as other certificated employees, upon agreement to return to the district for a minimum of service twice the length of the sabbatical. The grantee shall be required to furnish a suitable bond indemnifying the District against loss in the event that the employee fails to render the required service in this District upon return from leave or fails to fulfill the conditions of the leave. (2) The bond shall be exonerated in the event of failure of the employee to return and render the required service because of death or disability (physical or mental). B. The employee’s normal percentage rate of deduction for retirement purposes shall be applied to the actual salary received by the teacher. The employee may elect to have deducted from the actual salary the amount that would have been contributed by the District and the employee in order to receive a full year’s retirement credit. C. The employee on sabbatical leave shall receive experience increment for the year of leave, since the purpose of the leave is service to this District and its pupils. An individual on semester leave shall receive normal experience increment for the year in which leave is taken, if such individual is in active service for the whole of the other semester of that school year. D. Units of college credit earned as a condition of this leave may be used to satisfy the increment hurdle and class requirements of the District salary schedule. If credit is to be claimed for salary classification or increment hurdle for the year of the individual’s return to active service, transcripts of credits earned shall be filed with the Assistant Superintendent/Personnel in accordance with established District policy. If work is not completed by the deadline established for such notification, the form notice of intention to complete the work shall be filed instead and the transcript may then be filed by the date in the fall established in the above-mentioned procedure.