Summer Unemployment News for Part-timers
For guidance on unemployment matters, click here for the Unemployment Guide CCSF Part-timers pdf and/or call the union at 415-585-2121. We are here to help you through the process. If your unemployment claim is denied or if you receive a penalty notice of suspension of benefits for overpayment, we will help you file an appeal and represent you at your appeal hearing. AFT has had excellent success in helping many CCSF part-timers reverse erroneous EDD decisions on appeal.
In your application for unemployment benefits during summer or winter break, you need to report gross earnings for your last week worked before the break. You also have to report those same earnings in the biweekly continuing claim form if you claim benefits for that week. When the next semester starts, you will need to report earnings for flex week if you submit a claim form for that week.
How to Report Earnings for PBL Assignments
Last week of Spring 2010, May 23-29:
If you are paid by load for a semester long assignment, you are paid a fixed amount for the entire assignment. You are not paid hourly. You are deemed to work the same days as full-time faculty, regardless of which or how many days you actually work. First calculate your semester pay. Then calculate your daily pay by dividing your semester pay by the total number of full-time faculty workdays in the semester (87 in Spring 2010). Then multiply your daily pay by the number of workdays in the last week of the semester (4 workdays May 24-27). Follow these steps:
Step 1: Multiply gross biweekly pay (see your pay advice) from PBL assignment(s) times 9 = semester pay; (Apprenticeship instructors should use 10, not 9, as they receive 10 checks per semester.)
Step 2: Divide semester pay by 87 = daily pay;
Step 3: Multiply daily pay times 4 = gross earnings for that week to be reported to EDD.
First week (flex week) of Fall 2010, Aug. 8-14:
When you return to work the semester, you will have to report your earnings for the first week (flex week) if you claim benefits for that week. As above, first calculate your semester pay. Then calculate your daily pay by dividing your semester pay by the total number of full-time faculty workdays in the semester (88 in Fall 2010). Then multiply your daily pay by the number of workdays in the first week of the semester (3 workdays Aug. 11-13). This includes all independent study and professional development flex days because you are deemed to work and are paid for all flex days, just as full-time faculty members are. Follow these steps:
Step 1: Multiply gross biweekly pay (see your pay advice) from PBL assignment(s) times 9 = semester pay; (Apprenticeship instructors should use 10, not 9, as they receive 10 checks per semester.)
Step 2: Divide semester pay by 88 = daily pay;
Step 3: Multiply daily pay times 3 = gross earnings for that week to be reported to EDD.
How to Report Earnings for Hourly Pay Assignments
Last week of Spring 2010, May 23-29:
Multiply the number of hours worked times your hourly pay. The result is your gross earnings for that week to be reported to EDD.
First week (flex week) of Fall 2010, Aug. 8-14:
Part-timers paid hourly are paid for a flex day if they are assigned to work on the same day of the week that a flex day occurs. Therefore first add all hours worked and all hours you are assigned on the days of the week on which flex days occurred (3 flex days W, TH, and F, Aug. 11-13, in Fall 2010). Multiply the sum by your hourly pay. The result is your gross earnings for that week to be reported to EDD.