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Article Nineteen — Discharge Review Procedure
It is the policy of the Board that the discharge of an employee should be based on good and sufficient reason and that such action should be taken by the supervisor having such authority only after he/she has given due consideration to the matter. If...
Article Twenty — Rules and Regulations
Administrative employees covered by this Agreement shall continue to be covered by the applicable provisions of the Board's Rules and Regulations for Administrative Employees (Non-Pedagogical), and by applicable Board by-laws and regulations of the...
Article Eighteen — Complaint and Grievance Procedures
It is the policy of the Board to encourage discussion on an informal basis between a supervisor and an employee of any employee complaint. Such discussion should be held with a view to reaching an understanding which will dispose of the matter in a...
Article Seventeen — Due Process and Review Procedures
A. Employee Files No material derogatory to an employee's conduct, service, character or personality shall be placed in the employee's file unless the employee has had an opportunity to read the material. The employee shall acknowledge that he/she...
Article Sixteen — Education Reform
A. School-Based Management/Shared Decision-Making (SBM/SDM) The Union and the Board agree that SBM/SDM is a process in which all members of the school community collaborate in identifying issues, defining goals, formulating policy and implementing...
Article Fifteen — Excessing, Layoff and Recall
A. Excessing Where there is a reduction in positions at a work location, the junior employee in the affected title shall be excessed. In the event of reduction in part-time positions at a work location, the junior part-time employee in the title is...
Article Fourteen — Assignments, Transfers and Summer Work
A. Assignments The Memorandum of Agreement controlling the rights of employees regarding the 2007 reorganization of District 79 is contained in Appendix E. B. Transfers Effective school year 2005-2006, principals will advertise all vacancies...
Article Thirteeen — Seniority
For all purposes where seniority applies to full-time employees, it shall be defined as length of Board of Education service as a full-time nurse for nurses or as a full-time physical therapist for physical therapists or as a full-time occupational...
Article Twelve — Safety Health
A. Assistance in Assault Cases The principal or head of the facility shall report as soon as possible but within 24 hours to the Office of Legal Services, to the Chief Executive of School Safety and Planning and to the Victim Support Program that an...
Article Eleven — Jury Duty
The employee excused for jury duty in accordance with established administrative practices shall endorse the check for services rendered as a juror to the Administrator of Business Affairs. Otherwise there shall be deducted from his or her salary an...
Article Ten — Leave without Pay for Study
A leave of absence without pay for study not to exceed one year to upgrade the employee's professional knowledge and skills shall be granted after a minimum of three years of full-time, paid service at the Board of Education provided an appropriate...
Article Nine —Sick Leave and Annual Leave
A. Annual Leave Nurses and therapists (full-time and part-time) shall no longer accrue or be permitted to use annual leave time starting September 1, 2005, except as authorized below. All annual leave accruals to the credit of nurses and therapists...
Article Eight — Professional Conferences
Professional conferences of employees covered by this Agreement, called at the discretion of their supervisor, shall continue to be held during regular working hours. Applications from nurses and therapists to attend professional conferences will be...
Article Seven — Hours
A. Workday The regular workday of school-based nurses and therapists is six hours and twenty-five minutes per day exclusive of an unpaid lunch period of thirty minutes.In single session schools, the day will start no earlier than 8:00 a.m. and end no...
Article Six — Damage or Destruction of Property
Employees shall not be held responsible for loss within a school or other Board facility of Board property when such loss is not the fault of the employee. This does not exonerate the employee from responsibility for Board property in his charge. The...
Article Five — Uniform Allowance
A pro-rated annual uniform allowance shall continue to be provided for each nurse as follows: 5/19/08 5/1/13 5/1/14 5/1/15 5/1/16 5/1/17 5/1/18 6/16/18 Staff Nurse, RN (BOE), Head Nurse, Head Nurse (BOE), Supervisor of Nurses, Supervisor of Nurses...
Article Four — Health Insurance, Pensions and Other Benefits
A. Choice of Health Plans Effective September 1, 2005 the Board will continue to provide for each employee covered by this Agreement who regularly works twenty (20) hours or more a week during the ten (10) month work year of September through June...
Article Three — Salaries
Employees shall be subject to the following salary adjustments and minimums on the dates specified below: A. Base Salary Rate Adjustment The base salary for nurses and therapists will increase as follows: Effective Date Increase 1 May 1, 2013 1 % May...
Article Two — Fair Practices
The Union agrees to maintain its eligibility to represent all employees by continuing to admit persons to membership without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, handicapping...
Appendix G — False Accusations
Joel I Klein Chancellor Department of Education 52 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007 December 17, 2007 Randi Weingarten President United Federation of Teachers 52 Broadway New York, NY 10002 Dear Ms Weingarten, Notwithstanding any provision of the...
Appendix C — New Continuum Dispute Respolution
MEMORANDUM TO: All Superintendents, Executive Directors, Principals, Assistant Principals, UFT District Representatives, UFT Chapter Leaders, CSA Chairpersons FROM: Francine B. Goldstein, Chief Executive, School Programs and Support Services SUBJECT...
Appendix B — Health Insurance
In accordance with the LOBA determination and award in Case No. IA-1-85, the following shall apply: Effective July 1, 1983 and thereafter, the Employer’s cost for each contract for each Employee under age 65 and for each retiree under age 65 who...
Appendix A — Grievance Forms — Step 1 Grievance
School:_________________________________________District:________________________ Name of Grievant_______________________________________________________________ Title (psychologist, social worker, etc.):______________________________________________...
Article Twenty-Nine — Copy of Agreement
The parties will have available copies of this Agreement, upon request.
Article Twenty-Six — No-Strike Pledge
The Union and the Board recognize that strikes and other forms of work stoppages by psychologists and social workers are contrary to law and public policy. The Union and the Board subscribe to the principle that differences shall be resolved by...
Article Twenty-Three — Psychologist and Social Worker Workload
The parties recognize the importance of providing students with timely assessments of their eligibility and need for special education services. The parties further recognize the advantage of conducting these assessments during the students’ regular...
Article Twenty-Two — Charter Schools
A. Conversion Charter Schools Pursuant to Article 56 of the New York State Education Law (the “Charter School Law”) an existing public school may be converted to a charter school. As modified below, employees of a Conversion Charter School shall be...
Article Twenty — Working Conditions of Per Diem Substitute
A. Applicability Per diem substitutes covered by this Agreement are: Full-term substitutes: serving after the fifteenth day of the school term for the duration of that term in a full-time or regularly scheduled part-time position. Other-than...
Article Nineteen — Conditions and Benefits Applicable To Mental Health Workers
A. Applicable Provisions of Agreement The following provisions of this Agreement are applicable to mental health workers: Article One, Union Recognition Article Two, Fair Practices Article Three F 3, Health Care Flexible Spending Account Article...
Article Seventeen — Special Complaints
It is the declared objective of the parties to encourage the prompt and informal resolution of special complaints not covered by the grievance procedure and to dispose of such complaints as they arise and to provide recourse to orderly procedures for...
Article Fifteen — Due Process and Review Procedures
A. Employee Files Official employee files shall be maintained under the following circumstances: No material derogatory to an employee’s conduct, service, character or personality shall be placed in the files unless the employee has had an...
Article Sixteen — Grievance Procedure
It is the declared objective of the parties to encourage the prompt and informal resolution of employee complaints as they arise and to provide recourse to orderly procedures for the satisfactory adjustment of complaints. A resolution should occur at...
Article Twelve — Transfers
A. General Transfers 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...
Article Thirteen — Union Activities, Privileges and Responsibilities
A. Restriction on Union Activities No employee shall engage in Union activities during the time he/she is assigned to duty. Members of the Chapter’s negotiating committee and its special consultants shall, upon proper application, be excused without...
Article Eleven — Excessing and Layoff
A. Excessing Rules-Appointed Psychologists and Social Workers Before applying the Rules for involuntary excessing, the senior social worker or psychologist (as applicable) who volunteers will be excessed to a vacancy within the same superintendency...
Article Ten — Leaves
A. Cumulative Absence Reserves and Sick Leave Employees on regular appointment reinstated after retirement will be credited with the cumulative reserves remaining to their credit upon retirement and such reserves as they accumulated as regular...