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Coverage

The policies and procedures detailed in this section apply to all instructional, unclassified administrative staff, and classified staff on the Miami payroll, regardless of the ultimate source of funding. Thus, individuals engaged to work on research grants, public service projects, support services, as well as departmental instruction and institutional administration are covered by these provisions, except when specifically noted otherwise.

Definitions

Ohio law specifies that all ºÚÁÏÉçÇø employees are part of the civil service of the state. Ohio law divides the civil service into classified and unclassified administrative employees. Miami subdivides the unclassified civil service into instructional staff and administrative staff. See .

Policies and rules affecting classified employees of Miami are administered by the . Information about these policies may be obtained from that office.

Fulltime Employee 

A person whose customary annual appointment is longer than one semester for 30 or more hours per week or .75 FTE or greater. Full-time appointments are benefit eligible.

Note: Instructional staff do not earn vacation. In order to earn vacation, unclassified administrative staff must have an annual appointment of 1.0 FTE of at least ten (10) months duration.

Part-time Employee 

A person whose customary annual appointment is longer than one semester but for less than 30 hours per week (.70 FTE or less). Part-time appointments are not benefit eligible.

Temporary Employee 

A person whose customary annual appointment is for one semester or less. Temporary appointments are not benefit eligible.

Note: An employee who receives an appointment on or after July 1, 2014, specifying full-time status is eligible for benefits on the first day of the first month following the effective date of the appointment.

Immediate Family 

Unless otherwise defined in a policy, immediate family includes the employee’s mother, father, brother, sister, biological or adopted child, spouse, grandparent, grandchild, mother-in-law, father-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandparent-in-law, anyone who stood in loco parentis to the employee as a child, and other persons for whom the employee is legally responsible.

Retiree 

A person who meets either of the following definitions:

1. An employee who applies for and receives a service retirement benefit from an Ohio public employees retirement system (e.g., State Teachers Retirement System [STRS], Public Employees Retirement System [PERS]) or an employee who is a participant in the ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Alternative Retirement Plan (ARP), is age 59½, and who applies for and receives a retirement distribution from the ARP; or
2. An employee who applies for a disability retirement benefit from an Ohio public retirement system or University-sponsored disability plan and whose application for that benefit has been approved.  (Note that individuals receiving a disability retirement benefit from an Ohio public retirement system  are deemed to be on a statutory leave of absence during the first five (5) years following the effective date of a disability retirement.)