Section 156.808 - Personnel of Office of Career and Technical Education - Administrative regulations - Appeals to Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board(1) The Kentucky Board of Education shall promulgate, by administrative regulations, personnel policies and procedures for all full-time and part-time unclassified employees, certified and equivalent staff, including administrative, teaching, and supervisory staff in the Office of Career and Technical Education central office and state-operated vocational facilities. All other staff shall remain under the authority of the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet and KRS Chapter 18A. Employees who transfer to or from the KRS Chapter 18A personnel system shall transfer accrued annual, compensatory, and sick leave.(2) As provided in KRS 156.800 to 156.860, the Kentucky Board of Education shall promulgate administrative regulations for the administration of a personnel system in the Office of Career and Technical Education which are consistent with the provisions of KRS 156.800 to 156.860 and with federal standards for state government agencies receiving federal grants.(3) The Kentucky Board of Education shall promulgate administrative regulations for full-time and part-time certified and equivalent staff governing:(a) Establishment and abolishment of positions, including a prohibition against eliminating funding for or abolishment of a teaching position at a state-operated secondary area vocational education and technology center during a school year in which students are enrolled in the program;(c) Classification and compensation plans;(e) Selection of employees;(f) Types of appointments;(g) Attendance, including hours of work, compensatory time, and annual, court, military, sick, voting, and special leaves of absence;(h) Preparation, maintenance, and revision of a position classification plan and an equitable salary schedule for certified and equivalent staff based on qualifications, experience, and responsibilities;(i) Extent and duration of the state-operated area vocational education and technology centers' school term, use of school days, and extended employment;(j) Employee evaluations;(k) Programs to improve the work effectiveness of employees including staff development;(o) Suspensions and other disciplinary measures;(p) Probationary periods, limited employment status, and continuing employment status;(t) Employee grievances and complaints.(4)(a) Administrative regulations promulgated by the Kentucky Board of Education shall comply with the provisions of KRS 156.800 to 156.860 and KRS Chapter 13A and shall have the force and effect of law.(b) Administrative regulations promulgated by the Kentucky Board of Education shall not expand or restrict rights granted to, or duties imposed upon, employees and administrative bodies by the provisions of KRS 156.800 to 156.860.(c) No administrative body other than the Kentucky Board of Education shall promulgate administrative regulations governing the subject matters specified in this section.(d) Policies and procedures for the implementation of administrative regulations shall be developed by the Department of Education.(5) The commissioner of education shall be the appointing authority with respect to all personnel actions for the Office of Career and Technical Education. The commissioner may authorize a designee to act on behalf of the agency with respect to employee appointments, position establishments, payroll documents, reemployment lists, waiver requests, or other position actions. Any personnel designation shall be in writing. Authority to employ personnel may be delegated to the vocational school management by the commissioner. Any recommendation for employment from the local level shall be based on guidelines promulgated by the commissioner of education and shall be contingent upon confirmation by the commissioner of education.(6) The Kentucky Board of Education shall promulgate other administrative regulations to govern proceedings which relate to certified and equivalent employees and which shall provide for:(a) The procedures to be utilized by the Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board in the conduct of hearings, consistent with KRS Chapter 13B;(b) Discharge, as provided by this section;(c) Imposition, as a disciplinary measure, of a suspension from service without pay for up to thirty (30) working days and, in accordance with the provisions of KRS 156.820, for the manner of notification of the employee of the discipline and right of appeal;(d) Promotions which shall give appropriate consideration to the applicant's qualifications, record of performance, and conduct;(e) Supplementary information for the salary schedule for certified and equivalent staff including teachers, counselors, administrators, managers, and educational consultants in state-operated vocational technical facilities, field offices, and central office in the Office of Career and Technical Education that shall provide uniformity, recognition of education, teaching, and supervisory experience and use as a base the average salary paid to beginning classroom teachers by all public schools in the state for personnel with comparable qualifications and experience. Indexes may be incorporated in the compensation plan for administrative responsibilities. The salary schedule shall be computed annually, and shall be submitted to and approved by the Governor;(f) Reemployment of laid-off employees in accordance with the provisions of KRS 156.800 to 156.860;(g) Establishment of a plan for resolving employee grievances and complaints. The plan shall not restrict rights granted employees by the provisions of KRS 156.800 to 156.860; and(h) Any other administrative regulations not inconsistent with this chapter and KRS Chapter 13A proper and necessary for its enforcement.(7) The Department of Education shall make investigations, either on petition of a citizen, taxpayer, interested party, or as deemed necessary by the commissioner, concerning the enforcement and effect of KRS 156.808, 156.810, 156.812, 156.814, 156.816, 156.818, 156.820, 156.822, 156.824, 156.826, 156.828, 156.830, 156.832, 156.834, 156.836, and 156.838, shall require observance of the provisions and the administrative regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of KRS 156.800 to 156.860 and KRS Chapter 13A, and shall make investigation as requested by the General Assembly or the Governor and to report thereon.(8) The Kentucky Board of Education shall promulgate administrative regulations, pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A, for an appeal system for aggrieved certified or equivalent employees.(9) The Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board shall hear appeals from applicants for positions or from certified, equivalent, and unclassified employees who have been dismissed, demoted, suspended, or otherwise penalized for cause. Effective August 15, 2000, appeals from assistants and secretaries in the Office of Career and Technical Education attached to policymaking positions shall be governed by KRS 18A.095. The State Personnel Board, established in KRS 18A.045, shall hear appeals that are pending as of August 15, 2000, from assistants and secretaries attached to policymaking positions in the Office of Career and Technical Education.(10) The Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board may, any statute to the contrary notwithstanding, delegate the conduct of the hearing and the rendition of a recommended order to the full board, to a panel of the board, or to a hearing officer, relative to any hearing appeal, or decision, judicial or quasi-judicial in nature, which the board is empowered or directed, by KRS 156.800 to 156.860 or any other chapter, to conduct, hear, or make; provided, however, that the full board as provided by statute, makes the final order, based upon the evidence submitted.(11) The Kentucky Board of Education shall promulgate administrative regulations, pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A, governing the unclassified service including the preparation and maintenance of a salary schedule and other administrative regulations authorized by KRS 156.800 to 156.860.(12) The annual percentage salary increment for all certified and equivalent employees subject to the personnel system established under KRS 156.800 to 156.860 shall be at least equal to that funded and provided for other elementary and secondary teachers.(13) The positions of employees who are transferred, effective July 1, 1998, from the former Cabinet for Workforce Development to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System shall be abolished and the employees' names removed from the roster of state employees. Employees who are transferred, effective July 1, 1998, to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System under KRS Chapter 164 shall have the same benefits and rights as they had under KRS Chapter 18A and have under KRS 164.5805; however, they shall have no guaranteed reemployment rights in KRS 156.800 to 156.860 or KRS Chapter 18A personnel systems. An employee who seeks reemployment in a state position under KRS 156.800 to 156.860 or KRS Chapter 18A shall have years of service in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System counted toward years of experience for calculating benefits and compensation.Renumbered from 151B.035 and amended by 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 59,§ 7, eff. 6/24/2013.