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WV Code § 18A-4-5b (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-5b. County Salary Supplements for School Service Personnel

The county board of education may establish salary schedules which shall be in excess of the state minimums fixed by this article.These county schedules shall be uniform throughout the county with regard to any training classification, experience, years of employment, responsibility, duties, pupil participation, pupil enrollment, size of buildings, operation of equipment or other requirements. Further, uniformity shall apply to all salaries, rates of pay, benefits, increments or compensation for all persons regularly employed and performing like assignments and duties within the county: Provided, That in establishing such local salary schedules, no county shall reduce local funds allocated for salaries in effect on January 1, 1990, and used in supplementing the state minimum salaries as provided for in this article, unless forced to do so by defeat of a special levy, or a loss in assessed values or events over which it has no control and for which the county board has received approval from the state board prior to making such reduction.Counties may provide, in a uniform manner, benefits for service personnel which require an appropriation from local funds including, but not limited to, dental, optical, health and income protection insurance, vacation time and retirement plans excluding the state Teachers Retirement System. Nothing herein shall prohibit the maintenance nor result in the reduction of any benefits in effect on January 1, 1984, by any county board of education.
WV Code § 18A-4-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-6. Change in Classification

Upon the change of the training classification of any teacher, his salary shall be made to comply with requirements of this article and of any county schedule, where such exist, based upon his new classification and allowable years of experience.
WV Code § 18A-4-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-7. Substitute Teachers Pay

The pay of a substitute teacher shall not be less than eighty percent of the daily rate of the state basic salary paid to teachers: Provided, That any substitute teacher who teaches in excess of ten consecutive instructional days in the same position shall, thereafter, not be paid less than eighty percent of the daily rate of the state advanced salary based upon teaching experience: Provided, however, That any substitute teacher who teaches in excess of thirty days in the same position shall be paid the daily rate of the advanced salary, within that teacher's county.
WV Code § 18A-4-7b (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-7b. Calculation of Seniority for Professional Personnel

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, seniority for professional personnel as defined in section one, article one, chapter eighteen-a of this code shall be calculated pursuant to the provisions of section seven-a of this article as well as the following: Provided, That any recalculation of seniority of a professional personnel employee that may be required in order to remain consistent with the provisions contained herein shall be calculated retroactively, but shall not be utilized for the purposes of reversing any decision that has been made or grievance that has been filed prior to the effective date of this section:(a) A professional employee shall begin to accrue seniority upon commencement of the employee's duties.(b) An employee shall receive seniority credit for each day the employee is professionally employed regardless of whether the employee receives pay for that day: Provided, That no employee shall receive seniority credit for any day the employee is suspended without pay pursuant to section eight, article two of this chapter: Provided, however, That an employee who is on an approved leave of absence shall accrue seniority during the period of time that the employee is on the approved leave of absence.(c) Any professional employee whose employment with a county board of education is terminated either voluntarily or through a reduction-in-force shall, upon reemployment with the same Board of Education in a regular full-time position, receive credit for all seniority previously accumulated with the board of Education at the date the employee's employment was terminated.(d) Any professional employee whose employment has been terminated through reduction in force and whose name is on the preferred recall list shall retain all accumulated seniority for the purpose of seeking reemployment with the county from which he or she was terminated and nothing in this section may be construed to the contrary.(e) Any professional employee employed for a full employment term but in a part-time position shall receive seniority credit for each day of employment prorated to the proportion of a full employment day the employee is required to work: Provided, That nothing herein allows a regular full-time employee to be credited with less than a full day of seniority credit for each day the employee is employed by the board: Provided, however, That this calculation of seniority for part-time professional personnel is prospective and does not reduce any seniority credit accumulated by any employee prior to the effective date of this section: Provided further, That for the purposes of this section a part-time employee shall be defined as an employee who is employed less than three and one-half hours per day.
WV Code § 18A-4-7c (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-7c. Summer Employment of Professional Educators

A county board shall hire professional educators for positions in summer school programs in accordance with section thirty-nine, article five, chapter eighteen of this code or section seven-a of this article, as applicable, except that a professional educator who is regularly employed by the county board on a full-time basis shall be given employment preference over applicants who are not regularly employed by the county board on a full-time basis.
WV Code § 18A-4-8c (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-8c. Seniority Rights for Personnel Employed by Multicounty Vocational Centers

Professional and service personnel employed by a multicounty vocational center shall establish seniority on the basis of the length of time the employee has been employed by the multicounty vocational center, except that any professional or service personnel whose employment with the multicounty vocational center was immediately preceded by employment with one of the county boards participating in the operation of the center or whose employment contract was with one of the county boards participating in the operation of the center (1) shall retain any seniority accrued during employment by said county board; (2) shall accrue seniority as a regular employee with said county board during employment with the center; (3) shall attain continuing contract status with both the county and the center if the sum of the years employed by the county and the center equals the statutory number required for continuing contract status; and (4) shall retain and continue to accrue county and center seniority in the event of reemployment by said participating county as a result of direct transfer from the center or recall from the preferred list.Reductions in work force in the center or employment by the center or county board shall be made in accordance with the provisions of sections seven-a and eight-b of this article: Provided, That only years of employment within the multicounty vocational center shall be considered for purposes of reduction in force within the center.The seniority conferred herein shall apply retroactively to all affected professional and service personnel, but the rights incidental thereto shall commence as of the effective date of this section.
WV Code § 18A-4-8d (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-8d. Consolidation of Services and Seniority Rights for Administrative Personnel

Where two or more counties join together to share the services of central office administrative personnel, any employee whose services are no longer needed by virtue of such sharing may have his or her contract terminated for lack of need, as provided in sections two and six, article two of this chapter, notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary. Any employee whose contract is so terminated shall be afforded all rights pursuant to section eight-b of this article.
WV Code § 18A-4-8h (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-8h. Limitation on Number of School Service Personnel Positions to Be Held by an Employee

Upon the effective date of this section, no school service personnel shall be permitted to become employed in more than one regular full-day position, nor more than two one-half day positions at the same time: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit a school service personnel from holding an extracurricular assignment or assignments, as provided in section sixteen of this article, or summer positions, as provided in section thirty-nine, article five, chapter eighteen of this code, nor from performing extra-duty assignments, as provided in section eight-b of this article, in addition to his or her regular position.
WV Code § 18A-4-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-9. Payment of Teachers and Other Employees; Withholdings

Teachers and all other employees whose salaries or wages are payable out of the school current fund shall be paid for their services by orders duly signed by the president and secretary of the board in accordance with the following provisions: (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter and 18-1-1 et seq. of this code, the number of pays to be made during the school year to the various classes of employees shall be determined by the board: Provided, That the sum of such pays for any employee does not exceed the equivalent of an annual salary based upon 12 calendar months. (2) In the event a teacher or other employee is not paid the full salary or wage earned in the fiscal year in which the work is performed, the unpaid amount may be paid during July and August of the following fiscal year. (3) Adjustments for time loss due to absence may be made in the next paycheck following such time loss.(4) The county board may withhold the pay of any teacher or employee until he or she has made the reports required by the board or the state superintendent.(5) Accompanying the pay of each employee shall be an accounting of gross earnings, all withholdings, and the dollar value of all benefits provided by the state on behalf of the employee.(6) No deductions or assignments of earnings shall be allowed for union, labor organization, or club dues or fees from the compensation of teachers and other employees covered by this section.
WV Code § 18A-4-10a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-10a. Bonus for Unused Days of Personal Leave

County boards of education are authorized to pay to their employees or to defined groups thereof, for the purpose of reducing absenteeism, a bonus at the end of an employment term for each unused day of personal leave accumulated by the employee during that employment term.
WV Code § 18A-4-10c (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-10c. Personal Leave Banks for Care Givers

(a) For the purposes of this section:(1) "Care giver" means any employee of a county board who:(A) Is a spouse, child or parent of any employee who meets the following qualifications:(i) He or she is an employee of the same county board of education as the care giver; and(ii) He or she currently is eligible to receive benefits from the personal leave bank established in section ten of this article; or(B) Is a parent of a dependent child who is suffering from a catastrophic illness or injury;(2) "Catastrophic illness or injury" means a medical or physical condition that incapacitates a family member of the care giver and results in the care giver being required to take time off from work as defined by the rules of the board to care for the family member.(b) A county board of education may establish a personal leave bank for care givers which is separate from any personal leave bank as defined in section ten of this article. The personal leave bank shall be operated pursuant to rules adopted by the county board which shall include, but not be limited to, the following:(1) An employee may contribute no more than two days of personal leave per school year;(2) The bank shall be established either jointly or separately for both professional personnel and school service personnel and shall be available to all school personnel; (3) The rules may limit the maximum number of days used by a care giver;(4) Where the care giver is caring for an absent employee as defined in paragraph (A), subdivision (1), subsection (a) of this section, the rules shall require that leave bank days be used only by a care giver who is absent from work during the same time period as the absent employee for whom care is being provided; and(5) The rules shall require that the care giver is an active employee with less than five days accumulated personal leave.(c) The use of these days by the care giver for the extension of insurance coverage pursuant to section twelve, article sixteen, chapter five of this code is prohibited.(d) Contributions shall reduce, to the extent of the contribution, the number of personal leave days to which a contributing employee is entitled by section ten of this article: Provided, That the employee's contribution may not reduce the number of entitled personal leave days without cause.(e) No employee may be compelled to contribute to a personal leave bank.
WV Code § 18A-4-10d (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-10d. Use of Personal Leave Days by Surviving Spouse in Certain Circumstances

(a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) "Surviving spouse" means an employee of a county board whose spouse was also employed by the same county board at the time of his or her death; and(2) "Deceased spouse" means a person who, at the time of his or her death, was employed by the same Board of Education as his or her spouse.(b) Beginning January 1, 1999, a county board of education may credit a surviving spouse with any or all personal leave days to which the deceased spouse was entitled at the time of the death of the deceased spouse.(c) The provisions of this section only shall apply if all the following conditions are met:(1) Both spouses were employed by the same county board of education at the time of the death of the deceased spouse;(2) The deceased spouse had unused personal leave days which he or she was entitled to use;(3) The surviving spouse is an active employee with less than five days accumulated personal leave;(4) The death of the deceased spouse was by accident;(5) It is determined by the county board, on evidence provided by a licensed physician, that the surviving spouse is physically disabled to work at the position held by the surviving spouse; and(6) It is determined by the county board that the cause of the disability to the surviving spouse arose from the same accident that resulted in the death of the deceased spouse.(d) The county board periodically shall review the status of the surviving spouse and, upon a determination of the county board that the surviving spouse is able to work at his or her assigned position, any personal leave days credited to the surviving spouse pursuant to the terms of this section shall be extinguished.(e) Personal leave days credited to the surviving spouse pursuant to this section may be used only for the purposes of this section and may not be used for any other purpose, including, but not limited to, the enhancement of retirement or health insurance benefits.
WV Code § 18A-4-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-11. Group Insurance

Whenever a majority of the full-time instructional and administrative employees of a county or state Board of Education, or a majority of the full-time nonteaching employees of such board shall indicate in writing to the board of Education that it has adopted a group plan or plans of insurance for life, health and accident, hospitalization or surgery insurance, or death benefit plan on a group basis, and such majority has selected a licensed insurance company or companies duly licensed to do business in this state to write or provide for any one or more of such group insurance, or death benefit coverages, the board shall make proper periodical premium deductions from the regular salary of any such employee as specified in a written assignment furnished it by each such employee subscribing thereto, and pay the aggregate of such salary deductions over to the insurance company or companies or voluntary association so selected. Only those companies whose plan or plans receive the majority vote shall have the privilege of such deductions.
WV Code § 18A-4-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-12. Tax Deferred Investments for Teachers and Other Employees

For the purpose of this section, when an employee shall have attained the age of eighteen years the said employee may be eligible to participate in the defined group plans.A county board of education, the Teachers' Retirement Board, the West Virginia Board of Education and the board of regents of West Virginia and their agencies may provide by written agreement between any such board or agency and any teacher or other employee to reduce the cash salary payable to such teacher or other employee, and, in consideration thereof, to pay an amount equal to the amount of such reduction as premiums on an annuity contract or payments on a custodial account or other investment owned by such teacher or other employee, which annuity contract, custodial account or other investment is in such form and upon such terms as will qualify the payments thereon for tax deferment under the United States Internal Revenue Code. The amount of such reduction shall not exceed the amount excludable from income under section 403(b) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, and amendments and successor provisions thereto, and shall be considered a part of the teacher's or employee's salary for all purposes other than federal and state income tax.The purchase of such tax deferred investment for a teacher or other employee by a Board of Education, the Teachers' Retirement Board, the West Virginia Board of Education and the board of regents of West Virginia and their agencies shall impose no liability nor responsibility whatsoever on said boards or members thereof except to show that the payments have been remitted for the purposes for which deducted.
WV Code § 18A-4-13 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-13. Compliance With This Article

Any board failing to comply with the provisions of this article may be compelled to do so by mandamus.
WV Code § 18A-4-18 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-18. Department of Education Certified Staff Salaries

(a) Personnel employed by the state Department of Education who are required to hold a teaching certificate shall receive a salary that is at least equal to the salary paid to comparable professional personnel employed by the county board in the county in which their office is located, minus the $600 authorized pursuant to section two of this article for classroom teachers with twenty years of experience.(b) Effective July 1, 2002, service personnel employed by the Department of Education shall receive a salary that is at least equal to the salary paid to comparable personnel employed by the county board in the county in which their principal place of employment is located. The Department of Education shall establish a salary schedule that phases in the necessary salary increases before July 1, 2002.
WV Code § 18A-4-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18A. School Personnel|Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits|§18A-4-19. Alteration of Contract

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section seven-a of this article relating to professional personnel or any other section of this code to the contrary, any alteration of an employment contract of a professional educator who is employed for more than two hundred days, which alteration changes the number of days in the employment term, shall not be deemed a creation of a new position, nor shall such alteration require the posting of the position.Notwithstanding the provisions of section seven-a of this article relating to professional personnel or any other section of this code to the contrary, any alteration of an employment contract of a professional educator which reduces or eliminates the local salary supplement or the benefits provided to such employee due to a defeat of a special levy, or a loss in assessed values or events over which it has no control and for which the county board has received approval from the state board prior to making such reduction or elimination in accordance with section five-a of this article, shall not require termination of said employment contract as set forth in sections two and eight-a, article two of this chapter, nor shall it be deemed a creation of a new position, nor shall such alteration require the posting of the position.(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight-b of this article relating to school service personnel or any other section of this code to the contrary, any alteration of an employment contract of a service personnel employee who is employed for more than two hundred days, which alteration changes the number of days in the employment term, shall not be deemed a creation of a new position, nor shall such alteration require the posting of the position.Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight-b of this article relating to school service personnel or any other section of this code to the contrary, any alteration of an employment contract of a service personnel employee which reduces or eliminates the local salary supplement or the benefits provided to such employee due to a defeat of a special levy, or a loss in assessed values or events over which it has no control and for which the county board has received approval from the state board prior to making such reduction or elimination in accordance with section five-b of this article, shall not require termination of said employment contract as set forth in sections six and eight-a, article two of this chapter, nor shall it be deemed a creation of a new position, nor shall such alteration require the posting of the position.