Bethel requests that, if possible, you inform your supervisor, in writing, at least two weeks in advance of resigning from your employment at Bethel.

Once you have notified your direct supervisor, please forward your email/letter of resignation/retirement to the Office of People and Culture. Your supervisor/department chair/program director will then receive the Separation Checklist from the Office of People and Culture. This checklist outlines your supervisors responsibilities as well as your responsibilities leading up to your last day of work. Please complete all items on this checklist prior to your last day.

Bethel faculty, whose contracts are not being renewed for the following academic year, will be contacted by the Office of People and Culture approximately 6-8 weeks prior to the end of the last semester included in their primary contract. If you are a faculty whose full time contract ends yet you have an extra assignment such as summer school, dissertation review, an adjunct position, you will be prompted to complete all formal 'separation' checklist items in preparation for the ending of your full time contract. However, depending on your extra assignments, post full time contract, you may be able to continue use of Bethel provided laptops, etc. These special considerations will be addressed during the separation checklist process leading up to the end of your full time contract.

Information regarding Payroll:

Staff will receive their last paycheck according to their regularly scheduled pay period.

Faculty will receive their last paycheck according to their regularly scheduled pay period. Note: CAS Faculty who were able to and elected to have their salary paid out over 12 months will receive their last paycheck either in the month of July or December of the year they resigned/retired/separated from Bethel.

Information regarding Benefits:

Benefits eligible employees are able to access their benefits through the end of the month that they leave Bethel OR the end of the month when their benefits eligible contract ends. For example, if a Staff resigns on June 3, their benefits will run through the end of the month of June. Another example, if a faculty contract ends on May 15, their benefits will run through May 31 which is the end of the month during which the contract ended.

Key item to note:

Faculty or staff who elect to be paid over a 12 month time period are not eligible to extend their benefits to match their elected 12 month pay. Benefits often end before payroll ends because benefits are connected to the month in which an employee's contract/employment ends. If you have questions about this distinction between payroll and benefits, please contact the Benefits Administrator in the Office of People and Culture.

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