NASHUA – School District retirees would have to wait at least one year after they retire before applying for another school position if a new policy is approved.
In addition, the draft policy would prevent any new position from being created or a current full-time position reduced to part-time hours to accommodate a recent retiree filling the position
The policy is the result of a number of discussions in recent months surrounding the district’s hiring of retirees, and it still requires more discussion by the Board of Education’s Human Resources Committee before it is moved on to the full board.
The School District spent a total of $1.03 million in salaries, benefits and other costs to keep 28 retirees working part time in the district in the 2011-12 school year.
Of those retirees, 22 worked regular part-time hours and received benefits from the district.
Salaries ranged from a $63,552 Title I coordinator position to a $7,512 paraeducator position. Average salary for these part time employees was $36,874.
Meanwhile, a total of $704,360 in pension payments from the state retirement system was handed out to the district’s retired employees in 2011.
In October, the board’s Human Resources Committee decided that they wanted school administrators to draft a policy to manage the hiring of retirees who are collecting both a pension and a salary, a practice known as double dipping.
State law allows government retirees to return to public-sector work in a part-time capacity, which is currently defined as 32 hours a week or less.![]()
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