§ 103441 Public Employee Retirement Contracts

• •The board can sign a contract with the retirement system for any of its workers.
• •It can enroll all employees or just some of them.
• •Union workers can only be added if their union contract says they can be.

A city school board wants to enroll its cafeteria staff in the state retirement plan. The cafeteria workers are not in a union, so the board can add them. If the board tried to add teachers who are in a teachers' union, it could only do that if the teachers' contract specifically allows it.

Because the cafeteria staff aren't covered by a union contract, the board can sign them up for the retirement plan. The teachers are covered by a union, so the board must check the teachers' collective bargaining agreement before adding them.