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.
Sick Leave Credit-Based Retirement Gratuities 1) A Teacher is not eligible to receive a sick leave credit gratuity after August 31, 2012, except a sick leave credit gratuity that the Teacher had accumulated and was eligible to receive as of that day.
2) If the Teacher is eligible to receive a sick leave credit gratuity, upon the Teacher’s retirement, the gratuity shall be paid out at the lesser of,
a) the rate of pay specified by the board’s system of sick leave credit gratuities that applied to the Teacher on August 31, 2012; and
b) the Teacher’s salary as of August 31, 2012.
3) If a sick leave credit gratuity is payable upon the death of a Teacher, the gratuity shall be paid out in accordance with subsection (2).
4) For greater clarity, all eligibility requirements must have been met as of August 31, 2012 to be eligible for the aforementioned payment upon retirement, and the Employer and Union agree that any and all wind-up payments to which Teachers without the necessary years of service were entitled to under Ontario Regulation 01/13: Sick Leave Credits and Sick Leave Credit Gratuities, have been paid.
5) For the purposes of the following boards, despite anything in the board’s system of sick leave credit gratuities, it is a condition of eligibility to receive a sick leave credit gratuity that the Teacher have ten (10) years of service with the board:
i. Near North District School Board
ii. Avon Maitland District School Board iii. Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx District School Board
