ACTION ITEM, March 27, 2017, Professional Concerns Committee

The Professional Concerns Committee proposes to rescind the portion of the University Budget Reduction and Reorganization Plan, (Item IX in the Approved Minutes of 11/7/14), discussed and approved by the Board of Regents during the Special Session held on November 7, 2014, with respect to Line 13, Elimination of Sick Leave Credit with KTRS.

  • The Professional Concerns Committee requests that the Kentucky State University's Board of Regents immediately rescind this section which removed credit for unused sick leave, for the following reasons:
  • Faculty should have received notification that this policy change was being proposed;
  • The action should have been referred to BASC for consideration due to its connection with budgeting issues;
  • The action should have been referred to PCC for consideration due to its connection with the impact on faculty and future retirement, and
  • It is in direct conflict with the currently published Faculty Handbook, which reads as follows:

2.12.2.2 Unused sick-leave days conversion to retirement service credit: Upon a retiring employee's application for service retirement to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System (KTRS), the University shall act in accordance with the Kentucky Revised Statute 161.623, whereby the retiring employee's sick leave balance, expressed in days, shall be divided by one hundred eighty-five (185) days to determine the amount of service credit to be added to the employee's retirement account for the purpose of determining the retirement allowance.

The Professional Concerns Committee further proposes that all sick leave credit which was eliminated under that Motion be immediately reinstated, with such notification given to KTRS within 15 days. The Professional Concerns Committee further proposes that any faculty who were disadvantaged by this policy change, who retired during the time period that it was in effect, have their sick leave credited with KTRS and the retirement allocation be recalculated with the additional credit.