1. Employee Appointment Types
Each position is categorized by the Human Resources office as being in one of the eleven (11) appointment categories, and as exempt or nonexempt. The categories, in turn, affect benefits eligibility, compensation, contractual status and other conditions of employment.
B.1.01 Appointment Categories:
1. Chancellor: The chief executive officer of LSCS who serves in a contractual position.
2. Location Executive Officer (LEO): The Vice Chancellors and College Presidents of the System, each of whom serves in a contractual position.
3. Administrator: Non-instructional employee who serves in a contractual position.
4. Faculty: Employees who serve in a contractual relationship with the System and whose primary duties and responsibilities relate to educational programs, or to activities directly related to the educational development of students. The term "faculty" includes temporary faculty, but does not include continuing education instructors or adjuncts.
5. Temporary Faculty: "Temporary Faculty" refers to a contractual instructional employee who has the same duties and responsibilities as a permanent member of the faculty. Temporary faculty may be hired in a full-time or reduced load capacity on a semester-by-semester contract basis for a period of one year or less, contingent upon the needs of the System. Temporary faculty members have no right of continuing employment with the System beyond the term of their then current semester contract, do not have a right of notice of non-renewal and their service as temporary faculty members.
6. Instructor: Refers to a contractual instructional employee whose duties are instructing and teaching only. Instructors may be hired on a full or reduced teaching load and will be paid at a prorated fulltime faculty salary. Instructors have no right of continued employment with the system beyond their semester or annual contract, do not have right of notice of non-renewal and their service as instructor does not count towards eligibility for a multiyear contract or faculty status.
7. Professional Staff: An employee who serves in a non-contractual position that is designated as exempt by the Department of Human Resources in accordance with the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
8. Support Staff: An employee who serves in a non-contractual position that is designated as non-exempt by the Department of Human Resources in accordance with the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
9. Adjunct: An employee who receives a limited per semester appointment to teach at least one for-credit course and is assigned no more than one-half of a fulltime faculty workload in an academic year.
10. Continuing Education (CE) instructor: An employee who receives a limited appointment to teach specific non-credit course(s).
11. Grant Funded Employee: An employee who receives a limited appointment to perform specific services that are supported by external grant funds.
12. Volunteer: A person who serves in a non-employee position to perform particular duties or services, without monetary compensation.
B.1.02 Exempt and Non-Exempt Employees:
Exempt employees are exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Non-Exempt employees are not exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The Human Resources Department is responsible for classifying exempt and non-exempt positions.
B.1.03 Change of Assignment Transfers:
All employees shall be subject to assignment and reassignment by the Chancellor as dictated by the needs of the System.
LSCS Policy Manual Section adopted by the Board of Trustees on August 7, 2008