For the Vocational and Business Education teachers related work experience will be granted as follows:
Business Education: related work experience to be calculated from the time that a person was a qualified office employee or after having completed a Business Education training, or some other form of training acceptable to the board and teachers.
Vocational: related work experience to be calculated from the time he/she received his/her journeyman's license.
One increment will be granted for each year of related work experience up to three years, thereafter one increment will be granted for each two years of related work experience to a maximum of three increments - to a maximum of six increments for nine years of related work experience. Total number of increments shall not be greater than the required amount of increments needed to get a maximum salary.
In areas of employment in which a journeyman certificate is not issued related work experience shall be calculated from the time the person became qualified in the area of employment by virtue of the fact that the person held a position in the area of employment. However, only those years of employment in the particular area shall be counted as related work experience.