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                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6053

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Senators Bauer, Saling, Rinehart, Stratton, Conner and Sutherland)

Read first time 02/07/92.Creating a task force to explore issues relating to job-sharing in the community and technical college system.

     AN ACT Relating to community and technical college tenure; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.      The state board for community and technical colleges shall convene a task force to explore solutions to issues that deter job-sharing in the community and technical college system.  The task force shall include but need not be limited to representatives of:  Faculty organizations, community and technical college presidents, boards of trustees, persons interested in job-sharing, and the state board.  The task force shall submit a report, complete with any recommended legislation, to the governor and the appropriate standing committees of the house of representatives and senate by December 1, 1992.

     The issues that the job-share task force shall address include, but need not be limited to:

     (1) Issues associated with tenure for job-sharing individuals or job-shared positions;

     (2) Methods of determining the eligibility of positions for job-share;

     (3) Procedures for establishing or terminating a job-share position, and the issues associated with the dissolution of a job-share position in which one or both holders are tenured faculty members;

     (4) Methods for determining the division of work load in order to allow both members of the job-share arrangement to be eligible for state benefits;

     (5) Examination of job-sharing arrangements at other institutions of higher education;

     (6) Establishment of standardized job-share guidelines for colleges that elect to establish job-share positions;   

     (7) Examination of the significant differences, if any, between job-share appointments and standard part-time appointments; and

     (8) Examination of the issues of faculty advancement or career mobility as they might relate to job-share tenure.  An examination of the consequences of the break-up of a job-share arrangement due to the denial of tenure to one party or to the resignation of one party, and the portability of tenure from a job-share arrangement to a full-time position shall be included.