Employee Handbook

X. Assignments and Work Schedules

A. Professional Personnel

Non-teaching professional personnel shall work at least 40 hours per week during a seven- (7) day period. Professional personnel, who are exempt from provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, are not eligible for over-time pay or compensatory time off in lieu of overtime pay.

B. Faculty

Assignment of District instructors shall conform to the standards of the College Delegate assembly of the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Nine-month faculty personnel are employed for 180 working days. The instructional class schedule and the College Bulletin will govern faculty personnel.

Instructors are expected to maintain scheduled office hours during which they will be available to students for consultation. A minimum of 35 clock hours per week shall be scheduled on campus exclusive of overload instruction.

C. Classified Personnel

Classified (non-exempt) personnel shall work 40 hours per week during a seven- (7) day period. Computations for payroll purposes are made on the basis of 2,080 working hours per year.

The Board may make exceptions to the minimum length of the workweek and the maximum length of a workday in order to achieve and maintain operational efficiency at the college or any of its offices, departments, or divisions provided that no full-time salaried employee may be authorized to work fewer than 40 hours in a calendar week by reason of action taken pursuant to this provision.

D. Payroll Check Distribution

Payroll checks will be distributed on the fifteenth or the last working day prior to the fifteenth of the month, and the last working day of the month.