Sec. 1766.
(1) When employing additional personnel to implement special education programs and services, the board of a constituent district shall employ first an employee of the intermediate school district in which it is located whose employment is discontinued because the intermediate school district or state agency located within the district is discontinuing the special education program or service for which the person was employed.
(2) Special education personnel employed under subsection (1) shall be entitled to all rights and benefits to which they would otherwise be entitled had they been employed by the constituent school district originally. The persons shall be entitled to all rights under Act No. 4 of the Public Acts of the Extra Session of 1937, as amended, being sections 38.71 to 38.191 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, to which they would have been entitled if employed originally by the constituent district, except that at the option of the controlling board, they may be subject to another probationary period of 1 year.
(3) This section shall not apply when the affected person is covered under an agreement which provides substantially the same benefits.
History: 1976, Act 451, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977
Popular Name: Act 451
Last modified: October 10, 2016