At our February RA meeting:
Lew Button (Staff Attorney 3 at SOTS) was nominated and accepted as our new Chief Negotiator.
and
Nicole Godburn (Principal Cost Analyst at DSS) was nominated and accepted as our new A&R Secretary.
Congratulations to both.
Also...the next Telecommuting meeting with the State is scheduled for Feb. 22. There is an arbitration date set for March 27 if an agreement is not reached by that time.
We are families, public employees, educators, and concerned Kansans coming together to start a conversation about investing in our Kansas communities.
Here is what the Texas Association of School Boards advised school districts to follow regarding teacher planning and preparation periods. Click here to view the document.
Would you say that your campus is following the guidelines set forth by TASB?
We would like to congratulate A&R Secretary Kristin Campanelli who has been appointed to serve as Associate General Counsel to the Governor's Office! Kristin was always an amazing person with a great strategic and legal mind, so we are not surprised by this appointment.
Every year, AFT-CT hosts a legislative conference at the LOB. It is a private event held at the LOB for A&R/AFT-CT members to meet and listen to State Senators and Representatives about the current legislative agenda. This year, labor unions did a fantastic job of getting-out-the-vote during the elections, now we can hear and interact with them directly to see what they intend to accomplish in this legislative session. The event is free and runs from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM on Saturday, February 2, 2019 (this Saturday). Breakfast and coffee are served and this is a relaxed event to just
Article 16 Section 6 of the A&R contract incorporates lateness due to inclement weather. When there is inclement weather, hazardous driving conditions or a mass transportation failure, then tardiness for up to 1 hour is not to be charged to an employee. There is then discretion given for an additional 1-1/2 hours (for a total of 2-1/2 hours) based on the severity of the conditions. New language to our contract states that If the additional 1-1/2 hours are not granted or you exceed the 2-1/2 grace period then you may opt to either make up the excess time during the payperiod or charge
Just a reminder: last payperiod was to be the first installment of our TopStepPayment in three years and there were some "hiccups". Some agencies forgot about the payment, some used an out-of-date table and one agency did something that defies any logical explanation....in any case, the corrections should be found in the paycheck we receive on Thursday 1/31/2019. Also, there is a correction to the payout for the AR-32 level, our chart shows a TSP of $3081 when in fact the payout is $3091; this too should be accounted for in the adjustments made in this paycheck. We do have a grievance f
LPDC Handbook.
Link: http://clevelandmetroschools.org/cms/lib05/OH01915844/Centricity/Domain/...
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