Education employment: termination, reappointment, and opportunity for substitute service.

Existing law provides that, when employees are terminated pursuant to a reduction in workforce, a school district is required to terminate the employees in order of seniority. Existing law further provides those employees with preferred right to reappointment and opportunity for substitute service in order of seniority. Existing law requires that, if a terminated employee who is offered the opportunity for substitute service serves for at least 21 out of 60 schooldays, the compensation received by the employee in that 60-day period be no less than the compensation the employee would receive if he or she were being reappointed. This bill would temporarily delete the above-referenced requirement relating to compensation for the period of January 1, 2012, to June 30, 2015, inclusive. The bill would also prohibit local educational agencies from creating a vacant position, as defined, and subsequently filling that position with a substitute employee, as defined. The bill would make various technical and nonsubstantive clarifying changes.