New Law Limits Community College District's Employment Agreements
It's no secret that the issue of severance, retirement, and settlement agreements with government employees has been a hot topic lately - we previously reported on the recent amendment to FOIA to expressly provides that employee severance agreements should be treated as public records in the same way as settlement agreements. It is interesting, however, that the Illinois General Assembly chose to address only community college employee agreements in enacting a new law limiting the terms and provisions of employment agreements.
Public Act 99-0482 (text of the new law is below) becomes effective on September 22nd, but only applies to future agreements, and excludes collective bargaining agreements.
(110
ILCS 805/3-65 new) Employment contract limitations.
(a) This Section applies to employment
contracts entered into, amended,
renewed, or extended after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General
Assembly. This Section does not apply to
collective bargaining agreements.
(b) The following apply to any employment
contract entered into with an employee
of the community college district:
(1) Severance under the contract may
not exceed one year salary and applicable benefits.
(2) A contract with a determinate start and end date may not exceed 4
years.
(3) The contract may not include any
automatic rollover clauses, and all renewals or extensions of contracts must be
made during an open meeting of the board.
(4) Public notice, in a form as
determined by the State Board, must be given of an employment contract entered
into, amended, renewed, or extended and must include a complete description of
the action to be taken, as well the contract itself, including all addendums or
any other documents that change an initial contract.
Post Authored by Julie Tappendorf
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