How Senate Bill 5 affects school employees:

· Layoffs will be mandated to be primarily determined by performance. After that, in descending order, layoffs will be determined by licensure, HQT status, and value added scores.

· Employee share of health care premium must be at least 20%.

· There will be no state minimum salary or salary index. School districts may only pay each teacher a salary “determined by merit.”

· State law requiring sick leave and its use is eliminated.

· School districts are forbidden from collectively bargaining health insurance and salary.

· School districts are forbidden from entering into collective bargaining agreements that do the following:

(1) Requires the public employer to employ a minimum number of total personnel or any category of personnel;

(2) Restricts transfer and assignment procedures

(3) Establishes class size limits

(4) Bargain reasons for RIF

(5) Restrict management’s ability to determine the order of layoffs;

(6) Restricts school districts from privatization

(7) Otherwise relinquishes, impairs, or restricts any management rights determined by law

· When a contract clashes with state law, state law always supersedes except when it is for less than that provided by state law. Yep, that’s right, the only purpose of collective bargaining will be to bargain for less than the law allows.