RCW 28B.50.489Part-time academic employees—State-mandated benefits—Definitions.For the purposes of determining eligibility of state-mandated insurance, retirement benefits under RCW 28B.10.400, and sick leave for part-time academic employees in community and technical colleges, the following definitions shall be used:(1) 'Full-time academic workload' means the number of in-class teaching hours that a full-time instructor must teach to fulfill his or her employment obligations in a given discipline in a given college. If full-time academic workload is defined in a contract adopted through the collective bargaining process, that definition shall prevail. If the full-time workload bargained in a contract includes more than in-class teaching hours, only that portion that is in-class teaching hours may be considered academic workload.(2) 'In-class teaching hours' means contact classroom and lab hours in which full or part-time academic employees are performing contractually assigned teaching duties. The in-class teaching hours shall not include any duties performed in support of, or in addition to, those contractually assigned in-class teaching hours.(3) 'Academic employee' in a teaching duties. The in-class teaching hours shall not include any duties performed in support of, or in addition to, those contractually assigned in-class teaching hours.(3) 'Academic employee' in a community or technical college means any teacher, counselor, librarian, or department head who is employed by a college district, whether full or part-time, with the exception of the chief administrative officer of, and any administrator in, each college district.(4) 'Part-time academic workload' means any percentage of a full-time academic workload for which the part-time academic employee is not paid on the full-time academic salary schedule.[ 2000 c 128 s 2; 1996 c 120 s 1.]NOTES:Construction—2000 c 128: See note following RCW 28B.52.220.
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