Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3359 - University of Akron › Chapter 3359-11 - Polilcies on Hiring Policies and Benefits › Section 3359-11-15 - Reemployment procedures for retirees other than retirees who elected to retire under a university of Akron early retirement incentive program for all employees other than bargaining unit faculty

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
This rule shall apply to all employees other than members of a
				bargaining unit in which an agreement governs the reemployment of
				retirees.
(A) Am. Sub. Senate Bill
			 144, effective September 14, 2000, and other relevant sections of the Revised
			 Code facilitate the reemployment of qualified STRS Ohio benefit recipients by
			 removing past restrictions on this process. These changes to Ohio law permit
			 qualified retirees from the university of Akron the opportunity to retire and
			 begin receiving their personal annuity benefits and be reemployed full-time
			 with the university of Akron at no additional cost to the university of
			 Akron.
(B) Full-time university of
			 Akron employees other than members of a bargaining unit who are eligible to
			 retire from an Ohio pension system affected by the enactment of Am. Sub. Senate
			 Bill 144 may seek an agreement with the university of Akron, in advance of
			 retirement, to be reemployed full- or part-time with the university of Akron as
			 permitted by law in the same or similar position following retirement, without
			 the necessity of a formal search process under the university's affirmative
			 action plan. All such agreements shall be reduced to writing and shall be
			 subject to prior approval by the board of trustees. This rule shall not be
			 deemed to obligate the board to approve any such agreement or to create any
			 right to such reemployment or expectancy of reemployment or expectancy of any
			 right to reemployment for any employee or retiree of the university of
			 Akron.
(C) Such reemployment
			 agreements, in the case of tenured or tenure-track faculty, shall expressly
			 provide that tenure and any right or expectancy to obtain tenure shall
			 terminate upon the employee's retirement; and any such reemployment with the
			 university of Akron thereafter shall not include any grant of tenure or any
			 expectancy or other entitlement whatsoever to obtain tenure as a result of
			 reemployment or otherwise. Any period of reemployment shall not count or in any
			 way be used to count toward the obtainment of tenure at the university of
			 Akron. The reemployed retiree shall be entitled to retain the appropriate
			 academic rank achieved upon retirement.
(D) Unless otherwise approved by the board of
			 trustees, such reemployment agreements shall include the following in addition
			 to any other specific provisions that may be included in any agreement:
(1)
									A non-renewable
			 term of one year, except that the board of trustees, on the recommendation of
			 the president and provost, may renew for successive one year terms reemployment
			 agreements for faculty whose peer-reviewed research and scholarship is
			 recognized nationally and internationally to be preeminent, has a history of
			 service to the university, and from whose presence on the faculty the
			 university derives an immeasurable benefit.
(2) The employee shall be eligible to enroll
			 in the university's group health insurance and other benefits programs in the
			 same manner as all other similarly situated university of Akron
			 employees.
(3) Reemployment
			 agreements  shall provide that eighty per cent of
			 the greater of:
(a) the retiree's
			 annual base salary at retirement or
(b)
										the retiree's
			 annual base salary at June 30, 2015 shall be the maximum amount of
			 retiree's base salary upon reemployment, prorated for any reemployment period.
			 If the retiree is reemployed on a part-time basis, the
			 retiree's maximum salary will be eighty per cent of the greater of:
(a)
											the retiree's
			 prorated annual base salary at retirement or
(b)
											the retiree's
			 prorated annual base salary at June 30, 2015.
(4) Nothing in this rule shall preclude the
			 president of the university from recommending a reemployed retiree receive:
(a) A stipend for additional duties or
			 responsibilities;
(b) A bonus, or
			 other such award for merit; or
(c)
			 Any other amount based on employee performance.
However, such additional amounts, if approved by the board of
				trustees, shall not be considered or made a part of the reemployed retiree's
				base salary.