Retirement Incentive If a teacher meets all of the eligibility requirements contained in paragraph A of this Section, the teacher shall be paid a retirement benefit in accordance with paragraph B of this Section. A. To be eligible for retirement incentives, a teacher: 1. Must retire from the district pursuant to the rules of the Illinois TRS. 2. Must have at least 10 years of consecutive service as a certified employee in the District. Approved, unpaid leaves and periods of time during which a teacher is on the District’s recall list for purposes of a reduction-in-force shall not count towards accrued service in the District. However, such time shall not constitute an interruption in years of consecutive service in the District. 3. Must submit an irrevocable notice of retirement to the District by July 1, prior to the school year in which benefits will begin under this program. 4. Must not give rise to a requirement that the Board make payment to the TRS pursuant to the AERO provisions of the statutes. 5. Board will not be obligated to pay a penalty imposed by TRS due to the teacher’s salary exceeding the TRS cap if the teacher retires any time after submitting his/her letter of retirement. For example, a teacher that has earned more than a 6% increase in his/her salary in any of the three years prior to the year in which the teacher would start receiving retirement benefits, would not be eligible for this program. Note: a teacher that has received a greater than 6% increase in his/her salary under a grandfathered contract may still be eligible for this program, provided he/she meets the other eligibility requirements set forth in this section. If the teacher is found to be ineligible for this program pursuant to the 6% salary increase limitation discussed in this paragraph, the teachers may reapply for this program in any subsequent year and will be eligible for the retirement incentive when he/she would no longer cause the Board to have to pay a penalty to TRS in the event the teacher were to retire any time after submitting his/her letter of retirement, provided the teacher meets all the other eligibility requirements of this Section A. 6. The parties to this Agreement may waive the eligibility requirement contained in 2.A.5. of Article XVIII of this Agreement on the condition the teacher executes a promissory note promising to repay all or a portion of the Retirement Benefits provided under 2.B. of Article XVIII. In the event the teacher retires prior to the date stated in the teacher’s irrevocable Notice of Retirement, the teacher shall be responsible for the payment defined in the promissory note. Before a teacher executes a promissory note, the Board and Association will come to agreement as to the amount. 7. May not be receiving retirement benefits from previous contracts. 8. May retire before reaching full retirement if there are no additional costs to the District. 9. If there is a change in the law that causes a penalty to the district, the incentive will be modified at the beginning of the next fiscal year, July 1, to eliminate the penalty. Staff currently in the 4-year incentive are held harmless. Changes will only apply to members making new requests for the retirement incentive after the July 1 deadline each year.
Early Retirement Incentive The Employer may offer to any faculty member or a faculty member may apply for one of the early retirement incentive alternatives described herein, provided the faculty member meets the following criteria. The Union shall be advised in writing of any offer of early retirement made to a faculty member.
New Employee Orientation The Union will provide each agency personnel director with the names and addresses of up to two (2) authorized Union representatives per agency to receive notice of each formal orientation meeting held by the Department. The notice will be sent as soon as such meetings are scheduled (but not less than ten (10) days in advance) and will include date, time and location. Due to operational exigencies, agencies may schedule an orientation which will provide the Union with less than the requisite ten (10) days' notice; however the Union shall be notified as soon as possible after the scheduling of the orientation and the Union representative shall be released from duty. Agencies shall routinely schedule orientations in a manner that will allow for the ten (10) day advance notice to the Union. During the formal orientation, the Union will be permitted to give a twenty (20) minute presentation which may include an enrollment in supplemental Union benefits. The parties shall encourage employee attendance, although attendance shall not be mandatory if an employee objects to attending the presentation. In the event a formal orientation meeting is not held, or the Union is unable to attend the formal orientation because the designated Union representatives cannot be released under Article 4, the Employer shall allow the Union representative and the employee(s) to meet during duty hours at a mutually agreed upon time and location for twenty (20) minutes Employee participation in these meetings shall be encouraged although an employee shall not be required to attend such a meeting.
Permanent Employees The allocations outlined in paragraphs b) and c) above will be provided on the first day of each fiscal year, or the first day of employment, subject to the exceptions below: Where a permanent Employee is accessing sick leave and/or the short-term disability plan in a fiscal year and the absence continues into the following fiscal year for the same medical condition, the permanent Employee will continue to access any unused sick leave days or short-term disability days from the previous fiscal year’s allocation. A new allocation will not be provided to the permanent Employee until s/he has returned to work and completed eleven (11) consecutive working days at their regular working hours. The permanent Employee’s new sick leave allocation will be eleven (11) days at 100% wages. The permanent Employee will also be allocated one hundred and twenty (120) short term disability days payable at ninety percent (90%) of regular salary reduced by any paid sick days already taken in the current fiscal year. If a permanent Employee is absent on his/her last regularly scheduled work day and the first regularly scheduled work day of the following year for unrelated reasons, the allocation outlined above will be provided on the first day of the fiscal year, provided the employee submits medical documentation to support the absence, in accordance with paragraph (h).
RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN 18.01 The Nursing Homes and Related Industries Pension Plan
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Section 1. The Employer agrees to provide to the Union the statistical and program evaluation information provided to management concerning Employee Assistance Program(s). Section 2. No information gathered by an Employee Assistance Program may be used to discipline an employee. Section 3. Employees shall be entitled to use accrued sick leave for participation in an Employee Assistance Program. Section 4. Each university will offer training to local Union Stewards on the Employee Assistance Program available in their university, on university time, where an Employee Assistance Program is available.
New Employees The Employer agrees to acquaint new Employees with the fact that a Union Agreement is in effect.