Unemployment compensation disability benefits: academic employees.

Existing law permits any public agency, as defined, to elect to become an employer subject to specified requirements pertaining to disability compensation coverage, with respect to all employees who are a part of an appropriate employee organization bargaining unit if the election is the result of a negotiated agreement between the public agency and the recognized employee organization, as defined. Existing law authorizes the public agency employer to elect to provide coverage to its management and confidential employees and to its employees who are not a part of an appropriate unit, but prohibits the election from being contingent upon coverage of other employees of the public agency employer. This bill would permit a community college district, as described, to elect to become an employer subject to specified requirements pertaining to disability compensation coverage with respect to all employees who are part of an appropriate employee organization bargaining unit, if the election is the result of a negotiated agreement between the community college district and the certified employee organization, as defined, but would provide that the election would not be contingent upon coverage of other employees of the community college district employer. The bill would permit the community college district employer to also elect to provide coverage to its management and confidential employees and to its employees who are not part of an appropriate unit, but would provide that the election would not be contingent upon coverage of other employees of the community college district employer. The bill would also permit a community college district that employs an academic employee, as defined, to elect to provide disability compensation coverage to specified permanent, part-time, or temporary academic employees, but would provide that the election would not be contingent upon coverage of other academic employees of the community college district employer. By increasing the pool of potential recipients of payments from, and potential contributions into, a continually appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation.