Black Seal. All employees covered by this Agreement, except part-time personnel, will either have or will acquire a black seal boiler license within twelve (12) months of the date of hire. All employees having a black seal boiler license shall receive an annual stipend of $700 to be paid in Y2 in December and ½ in June of each year. Failure to secure a black seal license under the above terms will constitute just cause for termination. (Employees in good standing as of July 1, 2005 shall maintain their black seal and will not be subject to this termination except that these employees may be required to accept a transfer to a shift which is covered by other employees with a black seal license).
Black Seal. Any custodian who has and maintains his black seal license shall receive an additional $500.00 above his annual base salary. Effective with the date of the ratification of the 1999-2002 Agreement, all custodial maintenance employees hired on or after that date shall be required to attain the Black Seal license within eighteen (18) months of initial hire. Failure to attain the license shall be grounds for non- renewal.
Black Seal. Custodial and Maintenance personnel shall receive annual salary adjustment of $800.00 for holding a Black Seal License. The Board will pay for the cost of the Black Seal training as long as it is taken on the MCST Campus. All custodial and maintenance employees hired after July 1, 2015 are required to obtain their Black Seal license within twenty-four (24) months from the date their probationary period ends. Failure to obtain the license in this time frame will result in termination of employment.
Black Seal a. Effective July 1, 2008, July 1, 2009 and July 1, 2010, the “Black Seal” stipend shall be $200.00 each year, and rolled into and applied to the base salaries of the custodial employees.
b. Effective June 30, 2011, this stipend shall no longer be paid for “black seal” license.
c. The Board of Education shall still be required to pay the “black seal” renewal fee every time the renewal fee is required to keep said license.
Black Seal. 1. An additional stipend of $344.00 per year will be added to the salary of every employee who holds and discharges the rights and responsibilities of a Black Seal or better boiler license. Responsibilities shall include posting of license in school boiler room to which the individual is assigned, supervision of the boilers in the event of absence of primary boiler operators in a school, and assisting in scheduled boiler cleaning and repairing. Mechanics shall not be eligible for the Black Seal License Stipend. In addition, a unit member who utilizes said license on a regular daily basis in the performance of his duties by supervision of the boilers on his shift in his assigned building as the primary boiler operator, shall be paid an additional stipend of $648.00 per year.
