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MCCFA Employment Contract 1999-2001

ARTICLE 11 - WAGES

The evaluation of each faculty member's credentials for salary schedule placement in accordance with this contract will be conducted in the Minnesota State College and Universities System office. Each applicant who is offered employment shall at the time of the offer be so notified in writing, and shall be required to complete the salary schedule placement application forms. The faculty member and the Association's designee shall be notified concurrently in writing of the final column and step determination. Challenges to the salary schedule placement shall be raised by either the individual faculty member of the Association within twenty (20) working days of receipt of the written placement.

Section 1. Step Placement.

Initial step placement shall reflect the number of years of experience for which credit is given. Credit for full-time teaching experience and/or relevant work experience, (as determined by the chancellor or designee), shall be granted on a one (1) for one (1) basis according to the aggregate of experience. Credit for teaching experience shall be granted regardless of the level of teaching or the discipline area of teaching. Credit for military experience shall be granted only in cases where the faculty member leaves the college for military service and returns to the college after completion of the service and then shall be on a one (1) for one (1) basis. Initial placement shall not exceed Step 04, except as noted below.

"Initial" step placement may exceed Step 04 when a college takes over a program from another institution and also takes over the faculty members in the program, in which case the Employer may allow placement above the steps defined above providing the placement is not more than the next step above the faculty member's former salary. Step placement may also exceed Step 04 when new faculty members who have previously been employed as unlimited full-time, unlimited part-time, or temporary full-time faculty by the community colleges are re-employed. Such faculty members shall be placed on the salary schedule as if their step movement had not been interrupted if the faculty member has relevant interim work experience on a one (1) year for one (1) step basis. The "initial" step placement for specific individual faculty members may also exceed Step 04 only upon agreement of the Association based on a request for waiver by the college administration.

Faculty at consolidated institutions currently assigned in the UTCE bargaining unit who are offered unlimited (probationary) full-time faculty assignments in the MCCFA bargaining unit, and who are requesting an initial salary placement will be placed on the step of the salary schedule which is nearest to their current base salary, but not above the maximum of the column to which assigned. Evaluation for column placement of such faculty will be determined according to the stipulations contained in Section 2. of this article below.

System administrators who are appointed to faculty positions shall be granted step placement based on their experience at the time of initial hire as an administrator, plus one (1) additional year of credit on the salary schedule for each year of administrative experience in Minnesota State Colleges and Universities covered under the Personnel Plan for MnSCU Administrators.

If a temporary part-time faculty member whose previous employment was limited to the per-credit rate of pay is employed as a probationary faculty member, such faculty member shall be given credit for all appropriate experience including the work in the community colleges, subject to the limitations in paragraph one of this section.

Step placement for any faculty member shall be determined and implemented at the beginning of any semester or of the extra weeks which precede the semester.

Full- time appropriate employment for one (1) academic year shall count as one (1) year of experience and all time worked may be counted, but in no instance can more than one (1) year of experience credit be earned in a fiscal year.

Section 2. Column Placement.

Column placement shall reflect the amount of preparation for which credit is given. Column placement for new faculty members shall be established and shall go into effect at the beginning of employment.

Advanced professional degrees, e.g. a law degree, may substitute for the master's degree for column movement beyond Column II if all other requirements are met. A faculty member with an assignment/assigned field of Accounting with a C.P.A. or a C.M.A. shall be placed on Column II when the faculty member holds a B.A. degree in accounting, but will have to meet the other requirements for Column III and Column IV.

Section 3. Step Movement.

Any continuous additional step movement after "initial placement" shall be earned only by counting subsequent experience in the community colleges. For 1999-2000 and again for 2000-2001, each faculty member not at the maximum step on the salary schedule, and who meets the requirements for step movement, will be moved to the next step. Step movement shall be the aggregate of experience after initial placement in the Minnesota community colleges except as provided for in Articles 12 and 13. For part-time faculty all time worked may be counted but in no instance can more than one (1) year of experience credit be earned in a fiscal year. For full-time faculty members, one (1) academic year shall count as one (1) year of experience regardless of the actual credits taught.

If a probationary faculty member at the time of hiring has a total experience which is in fractional years and if that faculty member is hired after the commencement of the fall semester, the fractional year of experience may be combined with their experience in the system for purposes of step movement for the following academic year.

Section 4. Salary Schedules.

Section 5. Miscellaneous Wages.

Non-credit teaching, if not part of assigned load, shall be paid to faculty members on the same basis as to others with like assignments.

Miscellaneous duties paid for from the all college fund shall be paid to faculty members on the same basis as to others with like assignments. Payment for assignments for mentoring/monitoring instruction in the college/high School credit programs shall be paid on a pro rata credit equivalent basis as defined in Article 10, Section 9.

Faculty members shall be paid for assessment of competencies for credit at the rate of $15.00 per semester credit.

Section 6. Summer Session Wages.

A faculty member employed for the summer session(s) shall be paid on the basis of the number of credits taught. Unlimited full-time and unlimited part-time, and other faculty members teaching more than three (3) credits for the summer session, shall be paid a proration of the faculty member's salary schedule for the previous academic year.

Section 7. Part-Time Faculty Wages.

Prior to offering a part-time appointment, the applicant(s) shall provide the college with information pertaining to current or anticipated employment at another community college. Unlimited part-time faculty members shall be paid a proration of the appropriate position on the salary schedule for all work assigned. Temporary faculty members, teaching more than four (4) credits per semester during an academic year shall be paid a proration of the appropriate position on the salary schedule for that academic year. Except for temporary full-time faculty, contracts shall be semester by semester.

Temporary part-time faculty members who teach four (4) credits or fewer per semester shall be compensated at the rate of five hundred and twenty-five dollars ($525) to one thousand fifty dollars ($1,050) per semester credit When a temporary faculty member is rehired for a subsequent year, the faculty member shall be entitled to a minimum increase of one hundred dollars ($100) per credit up to the maximum of one thousand fifty dollars ($1,050). An assignment in an academic year qualifies the faculty member to move up the pay increase progression if hired during a subsequent academic year. Current temporary part-time faculty will not be reduced in the wage per credit and will be granted a minimum increase of one hundred dollars ($100) if employed during the 1998-99 academic year.

Unlimited part-time faculty members will be paid according to credits taught on a semester by semester basis. Unlimited part-time faculty members whose assignments do not meet their minimum guaranteed appointment, will be compensated for the balance of their appointment in the spring semester. However, unlimited part-time faculty members may be given additional assignments consistent with Article 10 to meet the minimum guaranteed appointment.

Section 8. Substitute Wages.

Faculty members who are included in the MCCFA bargaining unit, and are assigned to provide substitute services, shall be paid according to the following:

Section 9. Applied Music.

Section 10. Coaching Salaries

Coaches and assistant coaches shall receive pro rata pay when coaching a student activity whose credit equivalency exceeds three (3) credits.

The credits allocated may be distributed over two (2) semesters whenever the actual season of the activity occurs over two (2) semesters. When a student activity has more than one (1) assistant coach assigned, the credit equivalency will be divided between/among coaches to reflect the assignment. Individuals who volunteer to assist during college athletic practices and/or events shall not be identified as coaches or assistant coaches.

Section 11. Overload Assignments.

1. An overload assignment shall be defined as any assignment to a faculty member which exceeds the workload assignment limitations in this contract. Overload assignments must be mutually agreed upon by the faculty member and the college president. Current MCCFA unlimited faculty by "assigned filed" shall be offered overload work in that assigned field prior to members of other faculty bargaining units in MnSCU being offered overload via cross assignment.
2. The total payment for non-credit teaching, summer school teaching, overload, and extra days shall not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the faculty member's schedule salary, except in cases where the conditions of an outside grant requires additional days, or except as specified in Article 10, Section 5. The thirty percent (30%) total for a given year refers to the academic year, the extra days assigned during the fiscal year in which the academic year occurs, and the summer session(s) following the academic year.
3. When offered to a full-time unlimited instructor, overload shall first be offered within the assigned field, except where provisions of a grant require an exception to this provision.
4. The exceptions in paragraph B. above shall include grants and honoraria, including those from college foundations, for which faculty apply competitively and which are dispersed through payroll. These activities must be non-student contact. C.B.E. evaluation payments, class size overage payments, and short term substitute faculty work shall NOT count toward the overload restriction. The guiding principle is that whenever assignments require student contact, approval for exception to the thirty percent (30%) restriction must be granted prior to the assignment. The previous two (2) memoranda on minority interns and Bush grants remain in effect.

Section 12. Health/Dental Premium Accounts.

The Employer agrees to provide insurance eligible faculty members with the option to pay for the employee portion of health and dental premiums on a pretax basis as permitted by law or regulation.

Section 13. Medical/Dental Expense Account.

The Employer agrees to allow faculty members to cover co-payments, deductibles and other medical and dental expenses or expenses for services not covered by health or dental insurance as permitted by law or regulation, up to a maximum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per insurance year.

Section 14. Dependent Care Expense Account.

The Employer agrees to provide insurance-eligible faculty members with the option to participate in a dependent care reimbursement program for work-related dependent care expenses on a pretax basis as permitted by law or regulation.

Section 15. Appeals.

Any grievances filed under this article shall be filed initially at Step 02 of the grievance procedure consistent with time limits provided therein.