Common use of First Tier Clause in Contracts

First Tier. Full-time employees will receive an increment of $11.44 13 per semester unit, per month for each earned, approved unit of work 14 completed at an accredited university, college, or community college, 15 or other approved educational source up to a maximum of forty (40) 16 approved credited units. Units taken must improve an employee’s 17 present skills in their present job, allow the employee to acquire new 18 skills in a new job in the District to which the employee may wish to 19 advance, or for which the employee may be training, or be applicable 20 to a requirement for a degree program which the employee is pursuing.