Florida Statutes 238.12 – Duties of employers
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Terms Used In Florida Statutes 238.12
- Department: means the Department of Management Services. See Florida Statutes 238.01
- Employer: means the state, the school boards of all the districts of the state employing teachers, or community college district boards of trustees, subject to the provisions of this chapter, any other agency of and within the state by which the teacher is paid, or any nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers as referred to in subsection (3). See Florida Statutes 238.01
- Retirement system: means the Teachers' Retirement System of Florida provided for in…. See Florida Statutes 238.01
- Teacher: means any member of the teaching or professional staff and any certificated employee of any public free school, of any district school system and career center, any member of the teaching or professional staff of the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, child training schools of the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Corrections, and any tax-supported institution of higher learning of the state, and any member and any certified employee of the Department of Education, any certified employee of the retirement system, any full-time employee of any nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers functioning in Florida on a statewide basis, which seeks to protect and improve public school opportunities for children and advance the professional and welfare status of its members, any person now serving as superintendent, or who was serving as county superintendent of public instruction on July 1, 1939, and any hereafter duly elected or appointed superintendent, who holds a valid Florida teachers' certificate. See Florida Statutes 238.01
(1) Each employer shall keep such records and, from time to time, shall furnish such information as the Department of Management Services may require in the discharge of its duties. Upon the employment of any teacher to whom this chapter may apply, the teacher shall be informed by his or her employer of his or her duties and obligations in connection with the retirement system as a condition of his or her employment. Every teacher accepting employment shall be deemed to consent and agree to any deductions from his or her compensation required in this chapter and to all other provisions of this chapter.
(2) During September of each year, or at such other time as the department shall approve, each employer shall certify to the department the names of all teachers to whom this chapter applies.
(3) Each employer shall, on the first day of each calendar month, or at such less frequent intervals as the department may approve, notify the department of the employment of new teachers, removals, withdrawals and changes in salary of members that have occurred during the preceding month, or the period covered since the last notification.