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SECTION 101: PERSONNEL DEFINITIONS

SOURCE:

SBHE Policy Manual, Sections 605.1 and 606.1
NDUS Human Resource Policy Manual
NDSU President

1. CLASSIFICATION STATUS




1.1

Staff Employee
A person in a position covered by the North Dakota University System Broadbanding System.





1.2

Non-Banded Employee





1.2.1

Academic Staff
Faculty (instructors, assistant, associate or full professors), lecturers, and graduate assistants.





1.2.2

Other Non-Banded
Staff excluded from broadbanding by Board rule: president, executive deans, vice presidents and officers of the institution or staff holding positions the institution president has excluded by designation, including coaches, extension and experiment station professionals, and others in 2000 job categories not included in 1.2.1 above.



2. EMPLOYMENT STATUS




2.1

Regular Employee
A staff employee, who satisfactorily completes a probationary period, or a non-banded employee, who is employed at least seventeen and one-half hours per week if hired before August 1, 2003 or twenty hours per week if hired on or after August 1, 2003, and at least twenty weeks each year.





2.1.1

Full-Time Employee
A person employed on a regular basis for a minimum of 40 hours per week.





2.1.2

Part-time Employee
A person employed on a regular basis for less than 40 hours per week.

A part-time lecturer is generally considered to be a regular employee if she/he teaches 6 or more credits for two or more consecutive semesters in the same department. Credits taught through Continuing Education are not applicable for purposes of this definition.


2.2

Temporary Employee
A person employed in a position of intermittent or limited duration not to exceed one year, a seasonal position, or in a position working less than seventeen and one-half hours per week, or less than five months per year, if hired before August 1, 2003, or twenty hours per week or less than 20 weeks per year if hired on or after August 1, 2003. (This includes graduate assistants and student employees whose employment is incidental to their student status).





2.2.1

A seasonal position is one in which a person works less than eight months per year during an institutionally designated "season", such as the agricultural growing season. A seasonal employee must be terminated at the end of the institutionally recognized season, but may be rehired for a future season although there is no guarantee of re-employment.







3. OVERTIME ELIGIBILITY STATUS




3.1

Nonexempt Employee
Those employees serving in positions covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act who are eligible for overtime pay or compensatory time off. Generally those employees in bands 4000 through 7999 are included in this group.





3.2

Exempt Employee
Those employees serving in positions exempt from the overtime pay and compensatory time off provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act because their administrative, professional or managerial responsibilities meet the exemption requirements of the Act. Generally this includes employees in bands 1000 through 3999.

HISTORY: July 1990; Amended April 1996; August 1997; August 1998; July 1999; December 1999; December 2000; February 2001, October 2001, April 2005, January 2007.