1997 Minnesota Statutes

     136F.48 Employer-paid health insurance. 

    (a) This section applies to a person who:  

    (1) retires from the state university system, the technical 
 college system, or the community college system, or from a 
 successor system employing state university, technical college, 
 or community college faculty, with at least ten years of 
 combined service credit in a system under the jurisdiction of 
 the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and 
 universities; 

    (2) was employed on a full-time basis immediately preceding 
 retirement as a state university, technical college, or 
 community college faculty member or as an unclassified 
 administrator in one of those systems; 

    (3) begins drawing an annuity from the teachers retirement 
 association or from a first class city teacher plan; and 

    (4) returns to work on not less than a one-third time basis 
 and not more than a two-thirds time basis in the system from 
 which the person retired under an agreement in which the person 
 may not earn a salary of more than $35,000 in a calendar year 
 from employment after retirement in the system from which the 
 person retired.  

    (b) Initial participation, the amount of time worked, and 
 the duration of participation under this section must be 
 mutually agreed upon by the employer and the employee.  The 
 employer may require up to one-year notice of intent to 
 participate in the program as a condition of participation under 
 this section.  The employer shall determine the time of year the 
 employee shall work.  

    (c) For a person eligible under paragraphs (a) and (b), the 
 employing board shall make the same employer contribution for 
 hospital, medical, and dental benefits as would be made if the 
 person were employed full time.  

    (d) For work under paragraph (a), a person must receive a 
 percentage of the person's salary at the time of retirement that 
 is equal to the percentage of time the person works compared to 
 full-time work.  

    (e) If a collective bargaining agreement covering a person 
 provides for an early retirement incentive that is based on age, 
 the incentive provided to the person must be based on the 
 person's age at the time employment under this section ends.  
 However, the salary used to determine the amount of the 
 incentive must be the salary that would have been paid if the 
 person had been employed full time for the year immediately 
 preceding the time employment under this section ends. 

    HIST: 1995 c 212 art 4 s 34,64; 1995 c 262 art 1 s 2; 1997 c 183 art 
 3 s 39