SB411 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Trip Pittman

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Postsecondary Instructional and Support Workers Act, established, probationary, nonprobationary, and full-time employees, defined, termination procedures, disciplinary actions, suspensions, hearings, Secs. 16-24C-1 to 16-24C-8 added

Description

Under existing law, the Fair Dismissal Act provides procedures for the transfer and termination of employment contracts of postsecondary education employees.

This bill would establish the "Postsecondary Instructional and Support Workers Act of 2010." This bill would define postsecondary probationary employees and nonprobationary employees.

This bill would define postsecondary full-time employees as those working 32.5 hours or more each week.

This bill would establish employment termination procedures for probationary employees and nonprobationary employees.

This bill would allow a postsecondary college president to transfer or reassign any employee upon written notification to the employee.

This bill would allow employees to be suspended without pay as a disciplinary measure and establish a hearing process for an employee to contest his or her suspension.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Colleges and Universities