Common use of Withholding Increments Clause in Contracts

Withholding Increments. Employment or adjustment increments may be withheld for inefficiency or other just cause related to an Employee's performance of duties, but only in accordance with the following: (a) The Employee is evaluated in accordance with applicable Board policy or procedure; (b) The immediate supervisor and or the principal shall not forward any recommendation to withhold an Employee's increment or a part thereof through the Superintendent to the Board unless at least forty-five (45) calendar days prior thereto, and in no case later than April 1 of the preceding school year in which such action would take effect, the supervisor/principal has given to the Employee as to whom the recommendation shall be made, written notice of the alleged cause(s) for the recommendations specifying the nature thereof with such particulars as to furnish the Employee an opportunity to correct and overcome such cause(s) provided however, this provision shall not apply to instances of serious inefficiency occurring on or after March 1, or to cause other than inefficiency. (c) Any Employee who has had an employment increment or adjustment increment withheld under this provision shall be restored to guide the year following the withholding of the increment. In the event an employee suffers the withholding of an increment on at least two occasions after July 1,1996 while in the employ of the Board, then the difference in compensation occasioned by the withholding of the increment shall remain constant for the balance of the employee's employment by the Board.

Withholding Increments. Employment or adjustment increments may be withheld for inefficiency or other just cause related to an Employeea Principal's performance of duties, but only in accordance with the following: (a) The Employee Principal is evaluated in accordance with applicable Board policy or and procedure;. (b) The immediate supervisor and or the principal shall not forward any Any recommendation to withhold an Employeea Principal's increment or a part thereof through the Superintendent shall not be forwarded to the Board unless at least forty-five ninety (4590) calendar days prior thereto, and in no case later than April 1 1st of the preceding school year in which such action would take effect, the supervisor/principal supervisor has given to the Employee Principal as to whom the recommendation shall be made, written notice of the alleged cause(s) for the recommendations specifying the nature thereof with such particulars as to furnish the Employee Principal an opportunity to correct and overcome such cause(s) provided however, this provision shall not apply to instances of serious inefficiency occurring on or after March 1, or to cause other than inefficiency. (c) Once a recommendation is forwarded to the Principal and the Board, the Principal may within ten (10) work days file a grievance commencing at Stage 2. (d) Any Employee Principal who has had an employment increment or adjustment adjusted increment withheld under this these provision shall be restored to guide the year following the withholding of the incrementincrement unless the procedures set forth in this provision are followed once again, in which case the increment or increments previously withheld, plus any additional increments which may be due, may be withheld. In the event an employee suffers the withholding of an increment on at least two occasions after July 1,1996 1,2004 while in the employ of the BoardBoard for reasons not arbitrary and capricious and following due process, then the difference in compensation occasioned by the withholding of the increment and any additional withholdings shall remain constant for the balance of the employee's employment by the Board.