Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1006 – Reemployment of retirees
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1006
- Agency: means any governing body employing persons in the public school system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
- Employee: means any person legally occupying a position as a school bus driver who actually renders a service by driving a school bus during the full time of his employment, a school janitor, a school custodian, a school maintenance employee, school bus aide, monitor or attendant, or other regular school employee who actually works on a school bus helping with the transportation of school children, and who is a legal employee of a parish or city school board of the state of Louisiana, and shall include the employees of this system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
- Employer: means the state of Louisiana or any parish or city school board from which any employee receives his compensation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
- Retirement system: means the Louisiana School Employees Retirement System established and described in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
A.(1) Any service retiree of the Louisiana School Employees’ Retirement System may be reemployed in any position covered by the system as a full-time, part-time, temporary, or substitute employee subject to the provisions of this Section.
(2) The employing agency shall transmit monthly, by the fifteenth day after the end of the month, a report with the name, social security number, and the amount of earnings of the retiree during the previous month.
(3) For the purposes of this Section, there shall be an annual cost-of-living adjustment to the average compensation figure used in these computations. This cost-of-living adjustment shall be based upon and directly reflect the annual percentage increase or decrease in the Consumer Price Index for the preceding year.
B. If the earnings of the reemployed retiree in any fiscal year are in excess of fifty percent of average compensation, an amount equal to the amount of the earnings in excess of fifty percent of average compensation for the fiscal year shall be repaid to the retirement system, either through direct reimbursement to the system or by suspension of benefits; however, the repayment amount shall not exceed the amount of retirement benefits received by the retiree for the fiscal year.
C. Should any employing agency fail to submit the report required by Subsection A of this Section, the employing agency shall be liable to the retirement system for the repayment of any overpayments to the retiree by the system.
D. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any retiree of this system who retired from service as a bus driver, who returns to active service in a full-time position as a bus driver covered by the provisions of this Chapter, and whose employer chooses to reemploy him pursuant to La. Rev. Stat. 11:1007. The full-time reemployment of such retired bus drivers shall be governed by the provisions of that Section.
Acts 1990, No. 624, §1, eff. July 1, 1990; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 17:886 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2006, No. 647, §1, eff. July 1, 2006; Acts 2007, No. 213, §1, eff. July 1, 2007.