CHAPTER 4. PERSONNEL SYSTEM
IC 20-22-4
Chapter 4. Personnel System
IC 20-22-4-1
Applicability of state personnel and state merit employment laws
Sec. 1. Except as provided in this chapter, IC 4-15-1.8 andIC 4-15-2 apply to the employees of the school.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.6.
IC 20-22-4-2
Hiring personnel
Sec. 2. The executive shall hire directly for those positions asapproved by the state personnel department and the board anycandidate the executive considers qualified to fill a position at theschool. The state personnel department, in collaboration with theboard, shall annually develop a list of job classifications for positionsat the school for which the executive may fill a vacancy by hiring acandidate for the position based on a search for qualified candidatesoutside the state personnel hiring list.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.6. Amended by P.L.218-2005, SEC.68.
IC 20-22-4-3
Salary schedules; terms of contracts and hours of work forteachers
Sec. 3. (a) The board shall prescribe, subject to the approval of thestate personnel department and the budget agency, a salary schedulefor the school, using a daily rate of pay for each teacher, that must beequal to that of the largest school corporation in the county in whichthe school is located.
(b) The board shall prescribe the terms of the annual contractawarded to licensed teachers qualifying for payment under the salaryschedule as described in subsection (a).
(c) The hours of work for all teachers shall be set in accordancewith IC 4-15-2.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.6.
IC 20-22-4-4
Employee wage payment arrangements
Sec. 4. (a) Notwithstanding IC 22-2-5-2, the school and:
(1) an employee if there is no representative described undersubdivision (2) or (3) for that employee;
(2) the exclusive representative of its certificated employeeswith respect to those employees; or
(3) a labor organization representing its noncertificatedemployees with respect to those employees;
may agree in writing to a wage payment arrangement.
(b) A wage payment arrangement under subsection (a) mayprovide that compensation earned during a school year may be paid:
(1) using equal installments or any other method; and
(2) over: (A) all or part of that school year; or
(B) any other period that begins not earlier than the first dayof that school year and ends not later than thirteen (13)months after the wage payment arrangement period begins.
Such an arrangement may provide that compensation earned in acalendar year is paid in the next calendar year, so long as all thecompensation is paid within the thirteen (13) month period beginningwith the first day of the school year.
(c) A wage payment arrangement under subsection (a) must bestructured in such a manner so that it is not considered:
(1) a nonqualified deferred compensation plan for purposes ofSection 409A of the Internal Revenue Code; or
(2) deferred compensation for purposes of Section 457(f) of theInternal Revenue Code.
(d) Absent an agreement under subsection (a), the school remainssubject to IC 22-2-5-1.
(e) Wage payments required under a wage payment arrangemententered into under subsection (a) are enforceable under IC 22-2-5-2.
(f) If an employee leaves employment for any reason, eitherpermanently or temporarily, the amount due the employee underIC 22-2-5-1 and IC 22-2-9-2 is the total amount of the wages earnedand unpaid.
(g) Employment with the school may not be conditioned upon theacceptance of a wage payment arrangement under subsection (a).
(h) An employee may revoke a wage payment arrangement undersubsection (a) at the beginning of each school year.
As added by P.L.41-2009, SEC.5.