ARTICLE NINE
Apr 9, 2007 3:38 PM
FULL-TIME STATUS
A. Part-Time Employees Who Become Full-Time Employees
Part-time employees who become full-time employees on or after April 1, 1998 shall be subject to a probationary period of six (6) months. The probationary period shall be measured from the date the employee commences his or her full-time position, but shall be exclusive of downtime and vacation time as provided in this Article Nine and all other leave time as set forth in Article Fourteen.
Should the Employer, in its discretion, determine within the six (6) month probationary period that the probationer should not continue as a full-time employee, the Employer shall provide the probationer with at least two (2) weeks’ notice of its intent to terminate the probationer from his or her full-time position and return the probationer to his or her former part-time hours. The probationer shall accrue seniority for the period he or she worked in the full-time position, but shall only be eligible to maintain the hours of his or her former part-time position. Further, the probationer shall not be eligible to reapply for a full-time position.
The Employer's decision not to retain a former part-time employee in a full time position, within the six (6) month probationary period, shall not be grievable or arbitrable.
During and after the probationary period, the probationer shall be covered by all applicable provisions of the Agreement, except those specifically limited herein.
B. Full-Time Positions
The CWE shall maintain at least seventeen (17) full-time positions, by title, insofar as possible, promptly replacing any full-time employee whose position becomes vacant with another full-time employee in the same title.
Additional full-time positions may be established at the discretion of the Employer.
Full-Time positions are filled as follows:
1. The members of the bargaining unit will be notified of the full-time position and the qualifications therefore, in accordance with the procedures established by the Personnel Advisory Committee.
2. Qualified applicants from within the bargaining unit will be considered for the position. If applicants are equally qualified the senior applicant will be selected. If there is no qualified applicant from within the bargaining unit, an applicant from outside the unit may be selected.
C. Workyear
Full-time employees have a twelve month year commencing July 1 and consisting of forty-three (43) workweeks, seven (7) weeks of downtime and two (2) vacation weeks. The downtime shall consist of four (4) weeks taken during July and/or August, one (1) week during the winter recess, and one (1) week during the spring recess, and one (1) additional week during the summer or during a school recess, as mutually arranged.
The two (2) weeks of vacation time must be taken during the year in which earned and scheduled with the approval of the Project or Education Director.
D. Workweek
The workweek of full-time employees is thirty-two and one-half (32 ˝) hours per week.
The workweek of full-time teachers shall include at least four (4) hours but not more than eighteen (18) hours of classes, except that up to one (1) additional class of not more than six (6) hours per week may be scheduled at the option of the teacher. The remainder of the teacher's workweek may include staff development, curriculum development, program or project development, class preparation, Personnel Advisory Committee service and other appropriate instruction-related activities.
E. Holidays
Full-time employees are entitled to eleven (11) paid holidays to be selected from among the following:
Labor Day Columbus Day
Thanksgiving & the day following Christmas & the day before
New Year's Day & the day before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
President's Day Good Friday
Memorial Day July 4th
The choice of holiday shall be subject to approval of the workers and Project or Education Directors of the affected programs.
