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Home » US Law » 2022 West Virginia Code » Chapter 18A. School Personnel » Article 4. Salaries, Wages and Other Benefits

§18A-4-1. Definitions

For the purpose of this article, salaries shall be defined as: (a) "Basic salaries" which shall mean the salaries paid to teachers with zero years of experience and in accordance with the classification of certification and of training of said teachers; and (b) "advanced salaries" which shall mean the basic salary plus an experience increment […]

§18A-4-10. Personal Leave for Illness and Other Causes; Leave Banks; Substitutes

(a) Personal Leave. (1) At the beginning of the employment term, any full-time employee of a county board is entitled annually to at least one and one-half days personal leave for each employment month or major fraction thereof in the employees employment term. Unused leave shall be accumulative without limitation and is transferable within the […]

§18A-4-10a. Bonus for Unused Days of Personal Leave

County boards of education are authorized to pay to their employees or to defined groups thereof, for the purpose of reducing absenteeism, a bonus at the end of an employment term for each unused day of personal leave accumulated by the employee during that employment term.

§18A-4-10f. Leave Donation Program

(a) Definitions. For the purposes of this section and section ten of this article, the following words have the meanings specified unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) "Catastrophic medical emergency" means a medical or physical condition that:

§18A-4-11. Group Insurance

Whenever a majority of the full-time instructional and administrative employees of a county or state Board of Education, or a majority of the full-time nonteaching employees of such board shall indicate in writing to the board of Education that it has adopted a group plan or plans of insurance for life, health and accident, hospitalization […]

§18A-4-12. Tax Deferred Investments for Teachers and Other Employees

For the purpose of this section, when an employee shall have attained the age of eighteen years the said employee may be eligible to participate in the defined group plans. A county board of education, the Teachers Retirement Board and the West Virginia Board of Education and their agencies may provide by written agreement between […]

§18A-4-14. Duty-Free Lunch and Daily Planning Period for Certain Employees

(a) Notwithstanding section seven, article two of this chapter, every teacher who is employed for a period of time more than one half the class periods of the regular school day and every service person whose employment is for a period of more than three and one-half hours per day and whose pay is at […]

§18A-4-15. Employment of Service Personnel Substitutes

(a) The county board shall employ and the county superintendent, subject to the approval of the county board, shall assign substitute service personnel on the basis of seniority to perform any of the following duties: (1) To fill the temporary absence of another service employee;

§18A-4-16. Extracurricular Assignments

(1) The assignment of teachers and service personnel to extracurricular assignments shall be made only by mutual agreement of the employee and the superintendent, or designated representative, subject to board approval. Extracurricular duties shall mean, but not be limited to, any activities that occur at times other than regularly scheduled working hours, which include the […]

§18A-4-17. Health and Other Facility Employee Salaries

(a) The minimum salary scale for professional personnel and service personnel employed by the state Department of Education to provide education and support services to residents of state Department of Health and Human Resources facilities, corrections facilities providing services to juvenile and youthful offenders, in the West Virginia schools for the deaf and the blind […]

§18A-4-18. Department of Education Certified Staff Salaries

(a) Personnel employed by the state Department of Education who are required to hold a teaching certificate shall receive a salary that is at least equal to the salary paid to comparable professional personnel employed by the county board in the county in which their office is located, minus the $600 authorized pursuant to section […]

§18A-4-19. Alteration of Contract

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section seven-a of this article relating to professional personnel or any other section of this code to the contrary, any alteration of an employment contract of a professional educator who is employed for more than two hundred days, which alteration changes the number of days in the employment term, shall […]

§18A-4-2. State Minimum Salaries for Teachers

(a) For school year 2022-2023, and continuing thereafter, each teacher shall receive the amount prescribed in the State Minimum Salary Schedule as set forth in this section, specific additional amounts prescribed in this section or article, and any county supplement in effect in a county pursuant to 18A-4-5a of this code during the contract year. […]

§18A-4-22. Prohibition on Aiding and Abetting Sexual Abuse

(a) No school personnel, contractor or agent, or any employee of any state, regional or local educational agency including any employee of a public or private school, may assist an individual employed as school personnel, a contractor or an agent in obtaining a new job if the individual or agency knows, or has probable cause […]