Professional employee definition

Professional employee means an employee who holds a position for which a certificate issued by the New Jersey State Board of Examiners is required.

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Professional employee means an employee who: i) in the course of his/her employment is engaged in the application of specialized knowledge ordinarily acquired by a course of instruction and study resulting in graduation from a university or similar institution; and ii) is eligible to be a member of a professional organization that is authorized by statute to establish the qualifications for membership in the organization; or iii) performs the functions, but lacks the qualifications of a professional employee. “Professional employees” include employees who satisfy these criteria and who are required to perform supervisory functions.

Professional employee means any one of the following:

Examples of Professional employee in a sentence

• Sick leave is to be used for absences caused by illness or physical disability, including childbearing of the Certified Professional Employee or to the Certified Professional Employee’s spouse, resident of the Certified Professional Employee’s immediate household, dependent or minor children or parents.

• Written notice shall be given to the Building Administrator when it is known in advance that the Certified Professional Employee will be unable to perform his/her duties satisfactorily due to an event defined as sick leave.

• If a Building Principal discovers that a Certificated Professional Employee has an assignment that cannot be accommodated through discussion at the Building level, the District Office shall be contacted to address additional possible accommodation solutions.

• Certified Professional Employees who transferred in excess of ninety (90) days (720 hours) of accumulated sick leave, accepted and credited to the Certified Professional Employee by the District during or prior to the 2012-2013 school year, shall retain the right to such transferred days.

• Upon receipt of a doctor’s certification as outlined above, Human Resources shall grant to the Certified Professional Employee the amount of sick leave days prescribed by the medical certification, or until accumulated sick leave days are exhausted by the Certified Professional Employee.

More Definitions of Professional employee

Professional employee means any certified employee of a school district, including charter districts; provided, however, that superintendents, supervisors, or principals may be excluded from the professional employee group if negotiation agreement between the board and local education organization so specifies.

Professional employee means an employee whose work is predominantly intellectual and varied in character and whose work involves the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in its performance and requires knowledge of an advanced nature in a field of learning customarily requiring specialized study at an institution of higher education or its equivalent. The work of a professional employee is of such character that the output or result accomplished cannot be standardized in relation to a given period of time;

Professional employee means any employee engaged in work predominantly intellectual and varied in character rather than routine mental, manual, mechanical or physical work; involving the consistent exercise of discretion and adjustment in its performance; of such a character that the output produced or the result accomplished cannot be standardized in relation to a given period of time; and requiring advanced knowledge in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study in an institution of higher learning or a hospital, as distinguished from a general academic education or from apprenticeship or from training in the performance of routine mental, manual, or physical processes; or any employee who has completed the courses of specialized intellectual instruction and study prescribed in this subsection (m) and is performing related work under the supervision of a professional person to qualify to become a professional employee as defined in this subsection (m).

Professional employee means any employee engaged in work: (a)

Professional employee means a teaching staff member. “Pupil” means a student enrolled in a school in this district.

Professional employee means any employee of the District who is regularly assigned, on a part-time or full-time basis, to the instructional staff of the District in a position which requires a certificate issued by the State Board of Education, but shall not include administrators or classified employees;

Professional employee means any employee engaged in work that is predominantly intellectual, involving the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in its performance and requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course in an institution of higher learning or a hospital, as distinguished from a general academic education or from an apprenticeship; or an employee who has completed the courses of specialized intellectual instruction and is performing related work under the supervision of a professional person to become qualified as a professional employee.