ESPs. As used in this contract, “ESP” or “ESPs” shall refer to all educational support personnel within the bargaining unit.
ESPs. ESPs will attend in-services and workshops pertinent to their job assignment at the discretion of school administration and will be paid for their time at their regular pay rate.
ESPs. Leave shall be with pay from the employer. The Association will reimburse the District the costs for substitute ESP’s, unless the absence is covered by compensation time or non-certified volunteers.
ESPs. Each full-time ESP shall have a minimum of thirty (30) minutes duty-free lunch. Educational support personnel shall inform the school office when leaving the building during their lunch period. Middle School ESPs will receive the time equivalent of one (1) class period for lunch; thirty (30) minutes of this period shall be duty-free. The ESPs may be assigned duties for time beyond the duty-free thirty (30) minutes. They may be expected to assist in duties such as student transitions (walking students to lunch or to the classroom) or teacher transitions. Classroom ESPs shall meet with building administration to clarify these individual responsibilities.
ESPs. Seniority for ESPs shall be defined as total years of continuous service in the District as an employee. Pro rata seniority credit shall be given for less than full-time service. Unpaid leaves of absence or lay-off periods shall not be considered a break in service but shall not count towards seniority. Seniority is lost upon an employee’s resignation, dismissal for cause, or retirement from the District.
ESPs. The Board shall prepare, maintain, and post the seniority list. The initial seniority list shall be posted on the Employee’s bulletin board at all work sites within thirty (30) workdays after ratification of this Agreement. Revisions shall be prepared and posted annually thereafter by November 1. A copy of the seniority list and subsequent revisions shall be furnished to the Association on or before February 1 of each year. Any employee disagreeing with seniority placement shall notify the Superintendent or designee and Association president in writing within thirty (30) workdays after posting.
ESPs. In the event of a reduction of staff, work year, wages, or work hours, the following procedures shall be utilized:
ESPs. If the Board has any vacancies for the following school term or within one (1) calendar year from the beginning of the following school term, the positions thereby becoming available within a specific category of position shall be tendered to the employees so removed or dismissed from that category or position, so far as they are qualified to hold such positions on the date of recall. The District will attempt to return employees to similar positions on the date of recall. The District will attempt to return employees to similar positions and work sites they held immediately prior to their layoffs if a similar position is available.
ESPs. ESP’s who have been employed by District No. 107 prior to the start of the 2015- 2016 school year shall receive the following flat percentage salary increases (computed upon the salary amount paid to each ESP in the prior school year) during the term of this Agreement: School Year 2015-16 4% 2016-17 4% 2017-18 3% 2018-19 3.25% 2019-20 4% ESP’s newly employed by District No. 107 for the 2015-2016 school year and in any subsequent year of this Agreement shall be paid on the salary matrix set forth in Appendix D.
ESPs. Each ESP, who is scheduled to work more than six hundred (600) hours yearly, shall be granted sick leave in the following manner. Sick leave shall be interpreted to mean personal illness, quarantine at home, serious illness or death in the immediate family or household, or birth, adoption, or placement for adoption. An ESP may use up to thirty (30) sick leave days directly following the birth of a child without having to provide the District with medical certification. Up to thirty (30) sick leave days may be used for adoption and placement for adoption. For purposes of this Article, immediate family shall be defined as: parents, spouse, brothers, sisters, children, grandparents, grandchildren, parents-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, domestic partners, and legal guardians. Sick Leave # Days 12-Month Employees 12 10-Month Employees 10 Sick leave for eligible part-time ESPs shall be prorated. When a 10-month employee accumulates sick days after the first year of employment, the Board shall exchange one (1) sick day for a third personal leave day annually. It is understood that no 10-month employee shall ever have more than three (3) accumulated personal leave days. Unused sick leave shall accumulate up to a maximum of two hundred forty (240) days for IMRF purposes. The Board may require a physician’s certificate as a basis for pay for personal illness after an absence of three (3) days or as deemed necessary in other cases. Each ESP shall be furnished a written statement setting forth the amount of sick leave available during the school term, or before September 30. Accumulative sick leave shall automatically terminate on the date that an ESP’s resignation or termination becomes effective. An ESP who is absent because of disability or incapacity shall be deemed temporarily disabled, starting from the first day of disability, in accordance with the following: Employed in District Temporary Disability 0 thru 1 year - 30 consecutive work days. 2 thru 10 years - 60 consecutive work days or the exhaustion of paid sick leave, whichever happens last. 10 or more years - less than 90 consecutive work days or for less than 90 out of 120 work days from the same illness or incapacity, or the exhaustion of paid sick leave, whichever happens last. If a temporarily disabled ESP does not have sufficient accumulated sick leave days or unpaid leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act to cover the duration of his/her absence, the Board shall grant the disab...
