GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 595

SENATE BILL 662

 

AN ACT TO MODIFY THE PROVISIONS FOR LEAVE TIME OF OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION TEACHERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 115C-302(a)(2) reads as rewritten:

"(2)      Occupational Education Teachers.  State-allotted months of employment to local boards of education as provided by the State Board of Education shall be used for the employment of teachers of occupational education for a term of employment as determined by the local boards of education. Salary payments to these occupational education teachers made through the central payroll system shall be made monthly on the statewide payroll date, as provided in G.S. 115C-12(18). Salary payments to these occupational education teachers made through a local payroll system may be made monthly at the end of each calendar month of service or on the statewide payroll date for these employees, at the discretion of the local board: Provided, that local boards shall not reduce the term of employment for any vocational agriculture teacher personnel position that was 12 calendar months for the 1982-83 school year for any school year thereafter: Provided, that any individual teacher employed for a term of 10 calendar months may be paid in 12 monthly installments if the teacher so requests on or before the first day of the school year. Such request shall be filed in the administrative unit which employs the teacher. The payment of the annual salary in 12 installments instead of 10 shall not increase or decrease said annual salary nor in any other way alter the contract made between the teacher and the said administrative unit. Included within their term of employment shall be the same rate of annual vacation leave and legal holidays provided under the same conditions as set out in subdivision (1) above, but in no event shall the total workdays for a 10-month employee exceed 200 days in a 10-month schedule and the workweek shall constitute five days for all occupational teachers regardless of the employment period.

Occupational education teachers who are employed for 11 or 12 months may, with prior approval of the principal, work on annual leave days designated in the school calendar and take those annual leave days during the 11th or 12th month of employment.

No deductions shall be made from salaries of teachers of vocational agriculture and home economics whose salaries are paid in part from State and federal vocational funds while in attendance upon community, county and State meetings called for the specific purpose of promoting the agricultural interests of North Carolina, when such attendance is approved by the superintendent of the administrative unit and the State Director of Vocational Education."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1987.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 10th day of July, 1987.