CALAMITY DAYS. 19.01 The Superintendent, in consultation with the appropriate administrators, will establish work schedules for the support staff. Work schedules may be changed as required to meet the needs of the District.
19.02 When school is canceled or closed because of inclement weather or other calamity, the following support staff employees are expected to report to work, unless a Fairfield County Level 2 or 3 Snow Emergency is declared:
A. District Office personnel;
B. Custodial employees;
C. Maintenance/grounds employees; and
D. Secretarial employees (who may report on a two-hour delay when school is canceled or closed).
19.03 Specific job duties or responsibilities may require some employees to report to work in the instance of Level 2 snow emergencies. The Superintendent/designee determines whether or not conditions are too hazardous to expect employees to report for work at the regularly scheduled time, at a later time, or not at all. The work classifications and number of employees required to work on a day when school is closed will be determined by the Superintendent/designee in consultation with building and District administrators.
19.04 Employees who are required to work at times when school is closed will be paid a regular rate of pay unless: (a) the day is one that the District is required to make up in order to complete the required school year as approved by the Board, and (b) the hours worked are hours for which the employee is otherwise entitled to overtime compensation.
19.05 Employees who are required to report for work when school is closed and who fail to report will not receive any compensation for that day and may be subject to disciplinary action.
19.06 Non 12-month employees who are required to work on both a calamity day and a make-up day will be paid for working the make-up day at their regular hourly rate of pay.
19.07 In the event of an inclement weather delay, employees not listed in Article 19.02 whose day coincides with the start of the student instructional day shall have a delayed report time equivalent to that of the delay, except for custodial/maintenance-grounds employees who shall report as directed by their supervisor.
CALAMITY DAYS. A. All bargaining unit members shall be paid their appropriate rate of pay for all days or parts of a day when the school in which they are employed is closed due to an epidemic or other public calamity.
1. All bargaining unit members who are requested by the Director, Superintendent, or his designee, to report to work on a calamity day shall be paid their regular hourly rate of pay in addition to calamity day compensation or shall have the option to take compensatory time for all hours actually worked. All compensatory time must be utilized during the contract year in which it was earned.
B. The Superintendent or his designee shall determine which bargaining unit members normally will be required to report to work on calamity days. Notice will be sent to those bargaining unit members at the beginning of the school year, and they shall report to work on calamity days unless notified not to do so. Other bargaining unit members will not report for work on calamity days unless called and told to do so.
C. When a bargaining unit member is called in to work on a calamity day, he/she shall be paid time and one-half his regular rate of pay for those hours worked outside his normal work hours.
D. Bargaining unit members who report to work because they did not receive notice of the calamity day through no fault of their own shall be paid or receive compensatory time for work performed until they are sent home. Bargaining unit members shall be given a reasonable amount of paid work time to clean up, put away, and secure equipment after being told to leave. Paid time shall be a minimum of two (2) hours at the member’s regular rate of pay.
E. Calamity days shall not be counted as hours worked for the purpose of determining eligibility for overtime payment.
CALAMITY DAYS. A calamity day shall be defined as an instructional day when the closing of school is deemed necessary as a result of disease, epidemic, hazardous weather conditions, law enforcement emergencies, inoperability of school buses or other equipment needed to operate the school system, damage to a school building or other property, or other temporary circumstance that renders the school facility unfit for instructional use. Teachers will not be required to report to work on days when the district has cancelled classes for students.
CALAMITY DAYS. All monitors shall be paid their appropriate rate of pay for all days or part of a day when schools in which they are employed are closed owing to an epidemic or other public calamity. If required to report to work, a monitor shall report for and perform work. Work shall be paid for at the rate of time and one-half (1.5). Calamity Days shall be counted as days worked.
CALAMITY DAYS. On days when school is closed as a result of inclement weather, extremely cold days or any other public calamity (“Calamity Days”), teachers shall not be required to report for work except as specified below, and, furthermore, will not be docked pay. When one or more buildings are closed for a calamity due to extreme heat, or due to an emergency (e.g., a water main break issue, loss of water, loss of electricity), the affected bargaining unit members are required to report to work/stay at work, unless otherwise specifically directed by the Superintendent. The time shall be used for teacher-driven activities related to instruction, with the administration having discretion to utilize/schedule the teachers’ work time for up to one (1) hour per day. In the event of the calamity being due to extreme heat, teachers will work an abbreviated schedule of 9 AM-2:30 PM, with a working lunch and no planning period. Also, in the event of extreme heat calamity day(s), teachers will be permitted to dress in appropriate yet comfortable clothing. There will be no abbreviated schedule for a calamity due to an emergency. Bargaining unit members may be assigned to report to another building that remains open in the event his/her individual building is closed but others remain open. Bargaining unit members who work on a student-only emergency or calamity day(s) for extreme heat shall receive their regular per diem pay for the day. Where a bargaining unit member is not required to report to work due to an emergency or calamity, he or she will not be docked pay, but shall be subject to the makeup procedures herein. Makeup days or hours shall not be scheduled if the number of Calamity Days does not exceed the student hour equivalent of five (5) school days. In the event there are calamity day(s) due to extreme heat where teachers report to work, such extreme heat days shall not count toward the five (5) school days. Makeup days or hours for student instruction may be scheduled by the Board at the Superintendent’s discretion in the event the number of Calamity Days exceeds the student hour equivalent of five (5) days. Makeup days or hours may be scheduled by the Superintendent during the regular school calendar year only with the mutual agreement of the BEA President. The Superintendent’s recommended calendar to the Board, per Article XIX, may include at least one calamity make- up day, to be used if needed. If mutual agreement cannot be reached, all makeup days or hours will be ...
CALAMITY DAYS. When school is closed due to a calamity, some employees may be called out to work. In these cases, they will be paid at the rate of double time their regular rate for the hours worked on the first five (5) calamity days. The balance of the scheduled day shall be paid at the regular rate. This policy of paying double time on calamity days shall not exceed five (5) days during any given school year. Employees will not receive any additional pay when a make-up day is scheduled.
CALAMITY DAYS. 1. All employees shall be paid their appropriate rate of pay for all days or part of a day when the school system is closed owing to an epidemic or other public calamity as declared by the Superintendent or his/her designee.
2. If required to work, an employee, if at all possible, must report for and perform work.
3. An employee, who is required to work for the Board of Education shall be compensated at his/her regular hourly rate for the hours worked in addition to his/her regular pay equal to the hours worked.
4. Calamity days shall be counted as days worked for the purpose of determining the rate of overtime work payments and all benefits.
CALAMITY DAYS. 1. For the first five (5) school days in a school year when schools are closed for the entire day by the Employer because of snow or other conditions without the need to make them up, employees would not necessarily report for duty but would be compensated for all hours lost on each of these calamity days of each year. If an employee is on an unpaid leave, no compensation for the day will be paid. When required to work on each of these days, as deemed necessary by the employee's immediate supervisor, the employee shall receive their normal day's pay plus time and one-half for all hours actually worked.
2. If more than five (5) calamity days are required then twelve (12) month employees will report for work on those days. If an employee doesn't believe he/she can safely travel to work they should notify their Immediate Supervisor. Such employee(s) may use accrued vacation or personal time in lieu of reporting to work.
3. No accumulation of calamity time will be charged against employees for two-hour delays or early dismissals. Days are considered calamity days only when school is closed all day.
CALAMITY DAYS. A. In the event that, due to weather conditions or for some other reason, a particular program (e.g. the adult education program, the secondary education program) is closed, employees assigned to that program which is closed shall not be required to report to work. All other employees, unless notified by radio announcement or telephone not to report to work, shall be required to report to work, except that employees assigned to satellite locations shall be subject to the school closings/calamity day provisions of the satellite location’s school district. Twelve month employees covered by this Agreement (i.e. custodians and secretaries) shall be required to report to work, unless notified not to do so. Twelve-month secretaries shall not be required to report to work on calamity days if non-union twelve- month secretaries are not required to report.
CALAMITY DAYS. 2 A. Within the limits established by law, employees shall be paid their 3 appropriate rate of pay for all days or part of a day when schools in which 4 they are employed are closed owing to an epidemic or other public 5 calamity.
6 B. Any employee required to work on a calamity day will be compensated at 7 the rate of time and one-half (1 1/2). Any employee who must report to 8 his assignment prior to the time of school being cancelled (radio, T.V.,
