Human Resource Management

Personnel and Benefits Administration

(last updated: August 26, 2008 )

Personnel Administration

• Copy of all Union and Non-Represented Employee Contracts and Policies
• A GUIDE TO THE MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC EMPLOYEE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LAW
• Public Records Law
• Mass. Gen. Laws Chapter 149: Section 52C. Personnel records; review by employee; corrections; penalty
• Family Medical Leave Act
  • Compliance Assistance - Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Internal Revenue Service
  • IRS forms and information
• ·Required Work place posters ( http://mass.gov/dlwd/otherr.html )

Benefits Administration

• Public Retirement in Massachusetts
  • Chapter 32b RETIREMENT SYSTEMS AND PENSIONS: MGL Chapter 32B deals with who is eligible to receive health insurance. Section 2(d) defines an employee as anyone who works no less than 20 hours. It further states that Teachers shall be deemed employees during the months of July & August. Chapter 90 of the Acts of 2006 amended Section 2 to include after the word teacher "and all other public school employees".
    • Pensions for Teachers
      • Chapter 32, Section 42. Municipalities in which authorized; pension fund.
      • Chapter 32, Section 43. Power of retirement board; persons qualified; amount of pensions.
    • PENSIONS FOR SCHOOL JANITORS.
      • Chapter 32, Section 44. Authorization; amount of pension.
      • Chapter 32, Section 44A. Retirement of janitors not in contributory retirement system; authorization; amount of pension.
      • Chapter 32, Section 44B. School janitors; options; widows; approval.
      • Chapter 32, Section 44C. Dental assistants, retirement by cities or towns.
      • Chapter 32, Section 45. Boston, inapplicability of section 44.
      • Chapter 32, Section 45A. Amount of pension.
      • Chapter 32, Section 45B. School janitors and school custodians in certain cities and towns.
      • Chapter 32, Section 45C. Amount of pensions; limitation; effective date.
• Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission
• PRIM Board Home Page . Pension information for Massachusetts.
• Mass Teachers Retirement Board
  • MTRB Employer Bulletin: ( mass.gov/mtrb/4emp/41ann.htm ): provides a quarterly quick-read update on the latest retirement issues, legal developments and MTRB programs and services.
• Chapter 32: Section 90G3/4. Employees age seventy or over; continuation of retirement benefits; retirement system board and local legislative body approval
• ·Social Security: State and Local Government Employees
• Massachusetts Division of Employment and Training: Unemployment Insurance ( www.detma.org )
• 403b Management
  • IRS publication 571
  • ASBO International Web Page search will provide 403(b) information for school business officials www.asbointl.org
  • Fiduciary Focus: Fleecing 403(b) Plan Participants by W. Scott Simon
  • Fiduciary Focus: Fleecing 403(b) Plan Participants (Part 2) by W. Scott Simon

Best Practices (MASBO Members Only Section)