Patricia Batista v. Office of Retirement Services

Summary

The Court held that the Retirement Act's limitation on creditable compensation applies to public school employees regardless of whether they work under collective-bargaining agreements or personal employment contracts. It defined a "normal salary schedule" as a written, generally applicable compensation document established by statute or approved by a reporting unit's governing body, and held that schedules for comparable classifications in other reporting units may be used when a classification has fewer than three members. The Court affirmed the reversal of the Court of Claims' judgment, reversed and vacated portions of the Court of Appeals' analysis, and remanded for further proceedings.