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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1980
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352 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [July 18 a department or units other than that of his or her appointment upon the special approval of the executive officer of each department or unit involved and the Executive Committee of the Graduate College. O h motion of Mr. Howard, these amendments were approved. Mandatory Retirement Policy: Amendment of the Genera/ Rules (20) Amendments to the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act have expanded coverage of that act to include workers in state governments. The amendments further supersede the provisions of any public or private pension plan which require retirement before age seventy, effective January 1, 1979, for nontenured employees with the exception of certain administrators; and July 1, 1982, for tenured faculty members. H.B. 594 now awaiting action by the governor amends the article of the State Pension Code dealing with the Illinois State Universities Retirement System, effective July 1, 1979, to remove the requirement that participants in the system must retire by September 1 following the employee's sixty-eighth birthday. This latter requirement is presently referred to in Article I I I , Section 4 ( b ) , of the University of Illinois's General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure. In view of these changes in federal and state law, and to provide a University policy on this matter, I recommend that effective immediately each University employee be required to retire no later than September 1 immediately following his or her seventieth birthday as set forth in the following proposed amendment to Article I I I , Section 4, of the Genera! Rules, the adoption of which is recommended. In accordance with the Preamble of the University of Illinois Statutes, I have consulted with the University Senates Conference. Article I I I Sec. 4. R E T I R E M E N T , D E A T H , S U R V I V O R , AND D I S A B I L I T Y BENEFITS' [(a) General] University policy provides for the payment of salary in case of illness or other disability for specified periods as described below. In addition to the benefits provided by the University, a system of retirement, death, survivor, and disability benefits is established by law creating the State Universities Retirement System of Illinois, a state agency separate and distinct from the University of Illinois. (a) Retirement Age. Each employee of the University must retire no later than September 1 immediately following his or her seventieth birthday; however, in exceptional cases and for substantial cause, retirement may be deferred upon written request of the employee, approved by the chancellor, when appropriate, and the president, for a period not to exceed one year at any one time. (b) Participation in State Universities Retirement System. A deduction is made from the salaries or wages of all employees who are participants in the retirement system, as defined by law. [Under State Universities Retirement System policy a participant must retire by September 1 following his or her sixty-eighth birthday; however, in exceptional cases and for substantial cause, retirement may be deferred by the employer for a period not to exceed 1 year at any one time.] President Corbally reported that there was some internal disagreement concerning the recommendation, largely based on the difficulty that deans and others might encounter in taking into account the budget implications. However, he expressed his strong feeling that considerations of equity outweighed all others. O n motion of Mr. Howard, this amendment was approved. 1 Deletions are in brackets; Sec. 4 (a) is new.
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