The second Collective Bargaining Agreement became effective July 1, 2022 and applies to all unranked faculty. The CBA defines which faculty fall into this category. All unranked faculty are members of the collective bargaining unit.

Collective Bargaining Agreement

Unranked faculty may be entitled to compensation for specific non-instructional work they complete. The document linked below outlines the types of non-instructional work that are eligible for compensation, as well as rates of pay.

Non-Instructional Compensation for Unranked Faculty

Appointments

Article 14, Section E. One-Year and Two-Year Appointments defines appointment eligibility. The graphic linked below can also be a helpful tool in determining appointment eligibility for unranked faculty.

Unranked Appointment Eligibility

Benefits

Article 29: Employee Benefits defines benefits eligibility. This graphic can also be a helpful tool in determining benefits eligibility for unranked faculty, particularly the relationship between benefits and appointments.

Unranked Faculty Benefits Eligibility

Adjunct faculty may use this form to indicate their interest and experience in teaching in additional courses or areas at the college beyond their typical assignments.

They may use this form to indicate their ability to teach a specific course (ex: FYCST 1000), or a broader category or type of course in a particular program. 

This form should be filled out multiple times to indicate interest/experience teaching multiple courses/types of courses. For example, if an adjunct faculty member would like to be considered for teaching FYCST 1000, PRINT 2000, and a capstone level illustration studio course, fill this form out three separate times. 

Using this form to indicate candidacy for a particular course or course type is not an indication of availability, either the faculty's own for a particular semester, or of a corresponding vacancy. Tha adjunct faculty member can provide candidacy information on as many courses as they would like, even if at any given time they are not available to teach all of them. Similarly, there is no guarantee of course assignment as a result of filling out this form. Faculty responses will help create a database of faculty skills that program chairs can refer to when they have a staffing need. 

Detailed job descriptions for Adjunct I, Adjunct II, and Senior Adjunct faculty are available here:

Unranked Faculty Job Descriptions

Per Article 19. Faculty Development Grants and Development Leave:

Development Leave: Any unranked faculty member who has taught for three or more of the most recent consecutive years and who is currently serving under at least one teaching contract may apply for unpaid development leave. Notification must be submitted to the program chair at least six weeks prior to the start of the semester within which the unranked faculty member is scheduled to teach.

Unpaid leave may be taken for a period of up to two semesters, plus summer, in one academic year or across two academic years. If unpaid development leave is approved, the unranked faculty member will retain their status as provided in Article 30 (Leaves of Absence). Unpaid leave shall not count as time toward CCA teaching service for purposes of other provisions of the Agreement.

Please view the CBA for the full article details.

In order to request a development leave, unranked faculty must complete the leave request form linked below by the deadline defined in the CBA for consideration by their program chair.

Unranked Faculty Development Leave Request Form

This statement clarifies the unranked faculty’s duty to “attend meetings related to course teaching obligations when required,” as stated in their job description.

Unranked faculty are required to attend one hour of meetings during Faculty Weeks and one hour of meetings during the semester for each course they teach each semester in a given program, for a total of two hours of meetings per course per semester.

Program chairs will notify unranked faculty about which hours they should plan to attend, and work with faculty if there are conflicts. Chairs will invite faculty to other meetings as appropriate using the established notification email. Chairs will provide alternative means of engagement when possible and not disruptive, such as posting meeting minutes, recording meetings, or holding meetings by Zoom, so that unranked faculty can remain connected and involved.

This meetings policy does not cover meetings related to learning assessment or accreditation, as stated in the job description to “participate in course, program, and college assessment and accreditation activities.”

Please refer to the table below (also included as Appendix C in the CBA) for unranked line rates and effective dates.

Referencing Article 26, the college agrees that at the end of an academic term and if not actively employed, absent a reasonable assurance of future employment, unranked faculty members may be eligible to apply for unemployment insurance benefits through California's Employment Development Department (EDD). When the college receives written notice from EDD regarding a filed claim, the college will reply to EDD in writing only indicating the date of the expiration of the most recent teaching term, unless there are other material facts that the college is legally required to report. The college manages claims submitted to the EDD through a third party vendor, Sedgwick.

Please note that if you have received notice of a canceled class mid-contract, you may be eligible to receive partial unemployment benefits. Submit an unemployment claim through the EDD and use the below calculation to determine if you would qualify for benefits. If you qualify, the college will complete a Notice of Reduced Earnings form on your behalf through the EDD. A Notice of Reduced Earnings is prepared when:

• The employee works less than normal full-time hours because of lack of work; and
• The employee’s normal weekly earnings are reduced by lack of work; and
• The employee’s gross earnings, after deducting the first $25 or 25 percent of the total earnings (whichever is greater), are less than his/her weekly Unemployment Insurance benefit amount.

Amount of Wages
Although a claimant is required to report to the Department to total gross wages payable, only a portion of those wages affects the claimant's eligibility for benefits.

If the wages allocated to a week claimed are $25.99 or less, such earnings are disregarded and, hence, have no effect on the claimant's eligibility for benefits. If the wages are between. $26 and $99. 99, $25 of the wages are disregarded and the amount remaining is considered to be deductible. If the wages are $100 or more, 25 percent of the wages are disregarded and, therefore, the deductible earnings would be 75 percent of the total wages.

Here are a few examples that relate to a Notice of Reduced Earnings:

EXAMPLE F
Claimant F worked less than full time and earned gross wages of $85 during the week ending August 4. F's WBA is $55. The amount of deductible earnings is $60 ($85 minus $25) which exceeds the claimant's WBA. Therefore, F is ineligible for benefits under Section 1252.

EXAMPLE G
Claimant G worked less than full time and earned gross wages of $120 during the week ending August 11. G's WBA is $85. The amount of deductible earning is $90 ($120 minus 25% of $120) which exceeds the WBA. Therefore G is ineligible for benefits under Section 1252.

EXAMPLE H
Claimant H worked less than full time and earned gross wages of $93 during the week ending August 18. H's WBA is $95. The amount of deductible earnings is $68 ($93 minus $25) which is less than the WBA. Assuming that H meets all other eligibility requirements, the amount payable would be $27 ($95 minus $68).

EXAMPLE I
Claimant I worked less than full time and earned gross wages of $200 during the week ending August 25. I's WBA is $166. The amount of deductible earnings is $150 ($200 minus 25% of $200) which is less than I's WBA. Assuming that I meets all other eligibility requirements, the amount payable would be $16 ($166 minus $150).

To submit an unemployment claim through the EDD, review the steps here on the EDD website, including how to register and create an account. You can also view this notice. Please note that the EDD determines benefits eligibility, not the college.

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to hr@cca.edu.