Gwinnett County Public Schools
Suwanee, GA
see the full file on Gwinnett County Public Schoolsdocumented benefits (7)
| Works around classes | Bus drivers work the student calendar: summers and all major school holidays off, most drivers done by 5pm, weekend work optional and never required, and a mid-day break of roughly 9:30am-1:30pm between the morning and afternoon runs. The district sells this explicitly as being off when your own children are off. |
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| Paid training | Bus drivers get 100% paid Commercial Driver's License training, valued at over $2,100, and are paid their full wage while training; classroom, range and road training happen on district ranges with district examiners. No repayment agreement is stated on the page. Custodians get paid one-on-one on-the-job training with no experience required. |
| No experience needed | Paraprofessional: a high school diploma or GED plus a pass in the GACE Paraprofessional Assessment is enough — an associate's degree or 60 college hours are the alternatives, not requirements. Custodians must hold a high school diploma or GED and no experience is required. |
| Pension | Bus drivers, food service workers, custodians and maintenance workers are members of the Public School Employees Retirement System (PSERS), a State of Georgia defined benefit plan administered by ERSGA. Employee contributions are $10.00 a month for members joining after 1 July 2012. Paraprofessionals instead go into Georgia TRS plus the Gwinnett Retirement System. |
| State pension | This job does NOT build Social Security. Gwinnett's school board withdrew from Social Security coverage on 1 January 1983 and the district's own defined benefit plan (GRS) replaces it. The district frames it as take-home pay — no 6.2% deduction — but it means no Social Security credit is earned from this job. |
| Hours a week to qualify | School nutrition (cafeteria) staff are hired through ESS, a K-12 staffing partner, not directly by the district: 4-5 hours a day each school day at $16.12/hour, with medical, dental, vision and 401(k) from ESS. Bus drivers work 6-8 hours a day and get district benefits; custodians are benefited employees. |
| Benefits while part-time | yes |
the legal floor where they are
Set by law, not by Gwinnett County Public Schools. It applies to every employer in Suwanee, GA.
| IVF cycles the state covers | THERE IS NO FEDERAL MANDATE. No US law requires an employer health plan to cover IVF or any infertility treatment, so coverage comes either from the insurance mandate in the state where the plan is written or from the employer's own choice. And the state mandates reach less far than they look: they bind fully insured plans bought from a state-regulated carrier, while a self-funded employer plan is governed federally under ERISA and is preempted from state insurance regulation. KFF's 2025 employer survey puts 67% of covered workers in a self-funded plan, and 80% of those at firms of 200 or more — so at the size of employer this site mostly covers, the state mandate usually does not apply, and any fertility benefit is a genuine company choice rather than a restatement of law. That is precisely why it belongs on a benefits page here. Perks has not yet read this employer's own state insurance mandate from an official source; the states that have been read carry their own entry. (No federal statute requires an employer health plan to cover infertility treatment or IVF. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) preempts state insurance regulation as applied to self-funded employer plans, which is why a state mandate does not reach them.) |
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| Adoption leave the law gives | 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period on the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. There is no federal paid adoption leave. (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(B) and 2612(c); eligibility at 29 U.S.C. 2611(2) and (4). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code.) |
| Pay when you are ill | No federal law requires any paid sick leave. The FLSA does not require payment for time not worked, and the FMLA gives 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period for a serious health condition, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. Any paid sick time comes from a state or city law, or from the employer's own choice. (Fair Labor Standards Act, per the Department of Labor's statement on payment for time not worked; Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(D) and 2612(c). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code on govinfo.gov.) |
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