Common use of Appointment and Reappointment Clause in Contracts

Appointment and Reappointment. A. Initial appointment shall normally be for one year. B. Reappointment shall be at the discretion of the principal investigator or supervisor and shall normally be for one year. C. There may be instances where appointments or reappointments of less than one year will be appropriate or necessary. In such instances, appointments or reappointments of less than one year may be made at the discretion of the principal investigator or supervisor. When consistent with funding and project goals, a unit member who receives an appointment or reappointment of less than one year shall not receive a subsequent reappointment during that 12 month period that is less than the remainder of a full year. D. Unit members may serve at Rutgers in the postdoctoral associate or postdoctoral fellow titles for up to five years. E. Where possible, at least two weeks prior to the initial appointment, an appointment letter from the University will be sent indicating start date, salary, principal investigator or supervisor, project name(s), end date of appointment and the URL of the University Human Resources website posting this collective negotiations agreement. Reappointment letters shall follow the same format. 1. Effective as of the date of ratification, but no sooner than March 1, 2012, the minimum salary for bargaining unit employees shall be $35,000 for a calendar year appointment. Salaries for bargaining unit employees on academic year appointments shall be subject to University conversion guidelines. All bargaining unit employees whose salary exceeds the minimum shall receive at least a 2% salary increase or an increase provided by the funding source, whichever is greater. 2. Effective July 1, 2012, the minimum salary for bargaining unit employees shall be $36,000 for a calendar year appointment. Salaries for bargaining unit employees on academic year appointments shall be subject to University conversion guidelines. All bargaining unit employees whose salary exceeds the minimum shall receive at least a 2% salary increase or an increase provided by the funding source, whichever is greater. 3. Effective July 1, 2013, the minimum salary for bargaining unit employees shall be $37,000 for a calendar year appointment. Salaries for bargaining unit employees on academic year appointments shall be subject to University conversion guidelines. All bargaining unit employees whose salary exceeds the minimum shall receive at least a 2% salary increase or an increase provided by the funding source, whichever is greater. 4. Effective July 1, 2014, the minimum salary for bargaining unit employees shall be $38,000 per year for a calendar year appointment. Salaries for bargaining unit employees on academic year appointments shall be subject to University conversion guidelines. All bargaining unit employees whose salary exceeds the minimum shall receive at least a 2% salary increase or an increase provided by the funding source, whichever is greater. 5. Under special circumstances, the principal investigator or supervisor may request an exception to the above salary minima. Requests to deviate from these salary provisions must be made to the appropriate ▇▇▇▇ and the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. Such requests shall be in writing and shall include an explanation for why the exception is needed. Those exceptions approved by the University will be reported to the union annually. 6. Notwithstanding section 5. above, unit members shall receive all other salary increases as outlined in this article. 7. Notwithstanding the above provisions, bargaining unit members' salary movement shall be subject to the guidelines of the funding source, subject to the availability of funds and in accord with applicable legal requirements. 8. Unit members' continued employment is subject to the continuation of salary funding by the funding source and a continuing need for the position. To the extent that a unit member's employment will be discontinued for these reasons, the unit member will receive thirty

Appointment and Reappointment. A. Initial appointment shall normally be for one year. B. Reappointment shall be at the discretion of the principal investigator or supervisor and shall normally be for one year. C. There may be instances where appointments or reappointments of less than one year will be appropriate or necessary. In such instances, appointments or reappointments of less than one year may be made at the discretion of the principal investigator or supervisor. When consistent with funding and project goals, a unit member who receives an appointment or reappointment of less than one year shall not receive a subsequent reappointment during that 12 month period that is less than the remainder of a full year. D. Unit members may serve at Rutgers in the postdoctoral associate or postdoctoral fellow titles for up to five years. E. Where possible, at least two weeks prior to the initial appointment, an appointment letter from the University will be sent indicating start date, salary, principal investigator or supervisor, project name(s), end date of appointment and the URL of the University Human Resources website posting this collective negotiations agreement. Reappointment letters shall follow the same format. 1. Effective as of the date of ratification, but no sooner than March July 1, 20122015, the minimum salary for bargaining unit employees shall be $35,000 for a calendar year appointment. Salaries for bargaining unit employees on academic year appointments shall be subject to University conversion guidelines. All bargaining unit employees whose salary exceeds the minimum shall receive at least a 2% salary increase or an increase provided by the funding source, whichever is greater. 2. Effective July 1, 2012, the minimum salary for bargaining unit employees shall be $36,000 for a calendar year appointment. Salaries for bargaining unit employees on academic year appointments shall be subject to University conversion guidelines. All bargaining unit employees whose salary exceeds the minimum shall receive at least a 2% salary increase or an increase provided by the funding source, whichever is greater. 3. Effective July 1, 2013, the minimum salary for bargaining unit employees shall be $37,000 for a calendar year appointment. Salaries for bargaining unit employees on academic year appointments shall be subject to University conversion guidelines. All bargaining unit employees whose salary exceeds the minimum shall receive at least a 2% salary increase or an increase provided by the funding source, whichever is greater. 4. Effective July 1, 2014, the minimum salary for bargaining unit employees shall be $38,000 40,000 per year for a calendar year appointment. Salaries for bargaining unit employees on academic year appointments shall be subject to University conversion guidelines. 2. All Effective July 1, 2015, bargaining unit employees shall receive salary increases as follows: a. Unit employees whose salary exceeds salaries are below the minimum salary shall receive the minimum salary or an increase of 2.0%, whichever is greater; b. Unit employees whose salaries are above the minimum salary shall receive a salary increase of at least 2.0%; c. ▇▇▇ unit member whose funding source provides for a 2% salary increase in excess of the increases provided for in paragraphs a. or an b. above shall receive the increase provided by the funding source, whichever is greater. 53. [EXTEND THE FRAMEWORK IN #2 ABOVE FOR THE NEXT 3 YEARS, FOLLOWING THE AAUP-AFT FACULTY CONTRACT, SO IT WOULD BE 2.0% FOR JULY 1, 2016; 2.125% FOR JULY 1, 2017; AND 2.125% FOR JULY 1, 2018]. 4. Under special circumstances, the principal investigator or supervisor may request an exception to the above salary minima. Requests to deviate from these salary provisions must be made to the appropriate ▇▇▇▇ and the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. Such requests shall be in writing and shall include an explanation for why the exception is needed. Those exceptions approved by the University will be reported to the union annually. 65. Notwithstanding section 54. above, unit members shall receive all other salary increases as outlined in this article. 76. Notwithstanding the above provisions, bargaining unit members' salary movement shall be subject to the guidelines of the funding source, subject to the availability of funds and in accord with applicable legal requirements. 8. Unit members' continued employment is subject to the continuation of salary funding by the funding source and a continuing need for the position. To the extent that a unit member's employment will be discontinued for these reasons, the unit member will receive thirty