ARTICLE TWELVE

Dec 29, 2006 11:19 AM

TRANSFERS AND STAFFING

A. General Transfers

Effective school year 2005-2006, principals will advertise all vacancies. Interviews will be conducted by school-based human resources committees (made up of pedagogues and administration) with the final decision to be made by the principal. Vacancies are defined as positions to which no laboratory specialist or laboratory technician has been appointed, except where a non-appointed laboratory specialist or laboratory technician is filling in for an appointed laboratory specialist or laboratory technician on leave. Vacancies will be posted as early as April 15 of each year and will continue being posted throughout the spring and summer. Candidates (laboratory specialists or laboratory technicians wishing to transfer and excessed laboratory specialists or laboratory technicians) will apply to specifically posted vacancies and will be considered, for example, through job fairs and/or individual application to the school. Candidates may also apply to schools that have not advertised vacancies in their license areas so that their applications are on file at the school should a vacancy arise.

Selections for Candidates may be made at any time; however, transfers after August 7th require the release of the laboratory specialist or laboratory technician’s current principal. Laboratory specialists or laboratory technicians who have repeatedly been unsuccessful in obtaining transfers or obtaining regular laboratory specialist or laboratory technician positions after being excessed, will, upon request, receive individualized assistance from the Division of Human Resources and/or the Peer Intervention Program on how to maximize their chances of success in being selected for a transfer

B. Hardship Transfers

Transfers on grounds of hardship shall be allowed independent of general transfers. Transfers of laboratory specialists and laboratory technicians after three years of service on regular appointment may be made on grounds of hardship on the basis of the circumstances of each particular case, except that travel time by public transportation of more than one hour and 30 minutes each way between a laboratory specialist’s or laboratory technician’s home (or City line in the case of an employee residing outside the City) and school shall be deemed to constitute “ hardship” entitling the applicant to transfer to a school to be designated by the Division of Human Resources which shall be within one hour and 30 minutes travel time by public transportation from the laboratory specialist’s or laboratory technician’s home, or City line in the case of employees residing outside the City.

C. Staffing New or Redesigned Schools

The following applies to staffing of New or Redesigned Schools (“Schools”)

1. A Personnel Committee shall be established, consisting of two Union representatives designated by the UFT President, two representatives designated by the community superintendent for community school district schools or by the Chancellor for schools/programs under his/her jurisdiction, a Principal or Project Director, and where appropriate a School Planning Committee Representative and a parent.

2. For its first year of operation the School’s staff shall be selected by the Personnel Committee which should, to the extent possible, make its decisions in a consensual manner.

3. If another school(s) is/are impacted (i.e., closed or phased out), staff from the impacted school(s) will be guaranteed the right to apply and be considered for positions in the School. If sufficient numbers of displaced staff apply, at least fifty percent of the School’s pedagogical positions shall be selected from among the appropriately licensed most senior applicants from the impacted school(s), who meet the School’s qualifications.

4. Any remaining vacancies will be filled by the Personnel Committee from among transferees, excessees, and/or new hires. In performing its responsibilities, the Personnel Committee shall adhere to all relevant legal and contractual requirements including the hiring of personnel holding the appropriate credentials.