Nov. 2020 Tentative Agreement
Term of Implementation: Jan. 1, 2021- June 30, 2023
Recording: Faculty Forum on Tentative Agreement Wednesday 1:00, Dec 2, 2020
TA Table as signed with District
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Compensation
SCFA Compensation Components for Nov. 2020 TA: Jan. 2021-June 2023
Full-Time Faculty Salary Schedules* AY 2020-2021
Provides one-time money for AY 2020-21, using CARES Act funds in the following ways:
Stipends for faculty who met summer Canvas training & shell submission requirements agreed to in May 5 MOU (will appear on Nov. 2020 payroll)
Stipends to ALL adjunct faculty with Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 assignments
One-time, temporary improvement of 5.25% to Full-Time salary schedules, effective January-May 2021
Creates mechanisms for further one-time and continuing improvements to salary schedules through AY 2022-23, depending on variables including:
Overall District finances
Potential, faculty-driven reductions to District’s costs for faculty benefits
Potential, faculty-driven adjustments to class size minimums and/or maximums to positively impact efficiency
Contract Articles
Retraining Leaves and Transfers
Affected Articles:
Article 7: Retraining leaves;
Article 8: Voluntary & involuntary transfers;
Article 4: Special evaluation for faculty assigned to a new discipline
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Expands conditions for granting retraining leaves ;
Clarifies process for granting leaves;
Increases faculty involvement in planning retraining requirements prior to leave being granted;
Creates parallel processes for the placement of, and evaluation of, faculty moving from one discipline to another, whether as a result of a retraining leave or through a voluntary or involuntary transfer.
Article 10: Retirant medical exam
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Aligns CBA with Ed Code requirement: Retirees wishing to return as adjunct faculty are subject to a medical exam demonstrating fitness for work.
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Removes previous provision which allowed for one retraining leave to supplant one sabbatical leave per year (see related changes to article 7, above).
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Clarifies vague language re: “the hourly rate” for sub assignments. Differentiates between daily and long-term sub assignments.
New: District communication policy (Add to Art. 16?)
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Establishes District email system as the official means of communication between management and faculty.
New: Mandate Canvas for Syllabus & Gradebook (Art. 16?)
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Requires all faculty to use Canvas for all online courses, and Canvas eCompanion shells to post, at minimum, course syllabus and gradebook for all face-to-face and correspondence courses.
Article 18: Association Rights
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Aligns CBA with the Janus decision (June 2018), in which SCOTUS ruled that public-sector employees cannot be required to pay union dues to cover the costs of collective bargaining.
Article 19.4: Oversized lectures
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Replaces prior language providing extra pay for large lectures. New language calculates by percentages (% above regular class max) rather than by fixed numbers, allowing implementation in a wider range of disciplines. Large sections must be scheduled at the time the semester schedule is made; enrollment at census determines final eligibility for commensurate adjustment to load and/or pay.
Article 19.4: Restoring Underloads
New: “Underload Scheduling Agreement Form”
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Creates new provisions to prevent Regular (FT) faculty from accumulating under-loads in excess of 20%.
Clarifies the circumstances under which regular faculty may displace other faculty from hourly assignments (overload or adjunct load) to maintain or recover regular (base) load.
Articles 19.4 & 19.5: Adjunct Rehire rights & Overload Assignment priority
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Reduces FT priority rights to overload assignments (ahead of adjunct assignments) from current 60% to 40% or two classes, whichever is greater. Additional overload up to 67% is available after adjunct assignments are made.
Bases priority assignment protection for adjuncts with rehire rights on the average of load fulfilled in the prior three semesters, rather than the average load offered.
Eliminates seniority within the priority adjunct pool.
Article 19.5.4: Rehire rights across modalities
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Provides a mechanism for adjuncts who were hired for a specific site or modality (e.g. correctional facility or online assignment) to transfer earned rehire rights to assignment in a different site or modality
Article 19.5: Communication timeline re: class cancellations
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Clarifies the timeline for deans to communicate with faculty, and for faculty to respond, in the case of class cancellations prior to the start of the semester.
New: Corrections Education (Add to Art. 19?)
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Provides for the unique conditions of assignments in correctional facilities.
Article 19.8.2: Adjunct pay formula: final exam pay
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Expands the number of paid Flex hours for which adjunct faculty are eligible. Eligibility is based on load assignment and is unlinked from scheduled work days.
Re-separates SLO & Program Review hours from Flex hours.
Articles 19.8.2 & 22.2.5: Adjunct Flex & SLO Paid hours
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Expands the number of paid Flex hours for which adjunct faculty are eligible. Eligibility is based on load assignment and is unlinked from scheduled work days.
Re-separates SLO & Program Review hours from Flex hours.
Article 20.3-20.4: Initial salary placement, adjunct faculty
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Exempts District retirees who return to service as adjunct faculty from default “Step 1” placement.
Article 23: Mileage reimbursement language for faculty assigned at multiple sites
Reasons for and/or impact of changes:
Aligns CBA with IRS regulations for mileage reimbursement.