Pennsylvania Highlands Community College v. State Employees' Retirement System

OPINION BY

Judge McCULLOUGH.

Pennsylvania Highlands Community College (College) petitions for review of the March 11, 2011 order of the State Employees’ Retirement Board (Board), which affirmed, as modified, the decision of a hearing examiner and held that the College is required to pay to the State Employees’ Retirement System (SERS) the employer’s share of the state service purchased by Lisa T. Byrnes (Byrnes) for her employment with the College as an adjunct professor prior to January 3, 2007. For the following reasons, we affirm.

Byrnes began working at the College as an adjunct professor in…