Board Policy GCB: Classified Personnel Positions

EMPLOYMENT

MISSION: To ensure proper personnel classification, authorization, and placement essential for conducting efficient and effective school system services.

1. Classification Of Positions And Employment Of Personnel

2. The DeKalb County Board of Education shall classify the positions for personnel and shall authorize the employment and placement of personnel required for instruction, administration, maintenance and operation of facilities, and other appropriate services for the DeKalb County School System.

3. All educators certified to teach students by the Professional Standards Commission shall be classified as “certified personnel”. All other employees shall be classified as Education Support Professionals.

4. Personnel shall be employed in accordance with adopted job classifications and salary schedules and in such numbers as authorized by the Board. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to ensure that the employees meet the qualifications established by law and by the Board.

5. The Superintendent shall have authority to employ and assign personnel for positions authorized by the Board, provided that assignments at the level of executive director and above are approved by the Board.

6. Full-time Employment

Full-time employees are defined as those who are employed for 30 or more hours per week on a scheduled basis and who are not classified as temporary. Full-time employees are paid on a biweekly or monthly base salary and are eligible to participate in all fringe benefits offered by the DeKalb County Board of Education. Full-time employees are required by state law to participate in the Teachers Retirement System or the Public School Employees Retirement System. All full-time employees hired after March 31, 1986, are subject to Medicare taxes.

1. Part-time Employment

Part-time employees are defined as those who are employed for less than 30 hours per week on a scheduled basis and who are not classified as temporary. Part-time employees are paid at an hourly, daily, or unit rate of pay on a biweekly or monthly payroll schedule. Part-time employees are eligible to purchase tax-sheltered annuities via payroll deduction. All part-time employees hired after March 31, 1986, are subject to Medicare taxes. Part-time employees are subject to Social Security taxes unless they meet one of the following conditions:

1. The part-time employee is currently receiving a retirement pension from the Public School Employees Retirement System (ERS) or from the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia (TRS).

2. The part-time employee has earned at least ten years of service credit in the Public School Employees Retirement System (ERS) or in the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia (TRS).

3. The part-time employee is currently paying contributions to the Public School Employees Retirement System (ERS) or the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia (TRS) through employment in another school system or agency covered by one of the plans.

4. Substitute Employment

Substitute employees are defined as those employed for a daily, half-day, or hourly period to replace an employee who is absent from duty. The hours per day and days per week are based on the needs of the system. Substitute employees are paid at an hourly, daily, or unit rate of pay on a biweekly or monthly payroll schedule. All substitute employees are subject to Medicare taxes. Substitute employees are subject to Social Security taxes unless they meet one of the following conditions:

1. The substitute employee is currently receiving a retirement pension from the Public School Employees Retirement System (ERS) or from the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia (TRS).

2. The substitute employee has earned at least ten years of service credit in the Public School Employees Retirement System (ERS) or in the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia (TRS).

3. The substitute employee is currently paying contributions to the Public School Employees Retirement System (ERS) or the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia (TRS) through employment in another school system or agency covered by one of the plans.