JOB SHARING. Members with at least three (3) consecutive school years of full time classroom teaching, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing of interested teachers will be posted in all buildings by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis for the following school year. These Job Sharing teams shall be ranked on the basis of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status in the same position that was occupied by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experience.
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Samples: Master Agreement, Master Agreement, Master Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with at least three (3A) consecutive school years of full time classroom teachingIf two permanent teachers share a job sharing assignment, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing of interested teachers job sharing substitute teacher will be posted in all buildings hired to fill the vacancy created by March 10the job sharing partnership. The posting school system will contain require a one-half leave to be taken by the member namesjob sharing teachers, certification and current or most recent teaching thereby making them eligible for retirement credits.
(B) In all job sharing situations, the Administration will determine the school/subject area assignment. The formation Administration may deny any job sharing requests.
(C) The rights of Job Sharing teams is a full-time teacher permanently assigned to a position to return to his/her permanent position are governed by section 9-12.6.
(D) If at any point the responsibility of School Department chooses not to continue a specific job sharing position, the interested partiesSchool Department may terminate the arrangement and return people to their regular full-time assignments. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must Teachers should notify the Executive Director – Human Resources Resource Office by April 1 of their desire to be employed on if they are interested in participating in a half-time basis for the following school year. These Job Sharing teams shall be ranked on the basis of the team members’ combined system-wide seniorityProgram or, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who if already involved, whether they wish to continue as a participant in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate Program.
(E) Participation in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has Program does not been filled. Only the school years subsequent affect seniority status in relation to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharinglayoffs. The Job Sharing team date of hire still prevails in this case.
(F) Participation in job sharing reduces seniority status in relation to transfer rights by one-half year, or the pro-rated percentage of their assignment.
(G) Benefits and sick days are prorated according to the percentage of participation.
(H) Retirement benefits are reduced by a prorated percentage of participation though the teacher may choose to purchase the other prorated difference. This is allowed because the School Department requires that job sharing participants will be on leave for the percentage of time they are not teaching.
(I) For short-term absences where a substitute is not available, the other job sharing partner will assume teaching responsibilities at one-half the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position substitute rate.
(J) If due to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume extenuating circumstances a permanent teacher asks to return to full-time status employment after the initial approval by the Administration to participate in the same position that was occupied by program, the team. Effective request may be considered on an individual basis after discussion with the 2011-2012 school yearappropriate administrative personnel. If approved, job share teams shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a the return to full-time basis employment will be based on placement in an available vacancy for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a teacher is certified to teach. However, there is no guarantee that when the individual returns to full-time contract. If a member elects employment he/she will reassume the position he/she was previously assigned to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by until the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate start of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experienceyear (see section 9-12.6).
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with at least three 11.6.1 For the purpose of this Agreement, job sharing shall refer to the sharing of a single staff position by two (32) consecutive school years of full time classroom teaching, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team Covered Employees designated as primary job holder and job share partner.
11.6.2 Each job sharing arrangement shall be for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March one (1. A listing of interested teachers will be posted in all buildings by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis for the following ) school year. These Job Sharing teams shall The Covered Employees may request renewal on a yearly basis. In order for a shared position to be ranked on approved, the basis of two (2) Covered Employees must complete a District application form. All applications for job sharing and/or renewal must be submitted to the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of Human Resources Department no fewer than twenty (20) percent days prior to the last day of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual buildingWork Year. All members making This application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification must be approved or denied by the last day of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1the Work Year. Job Sharing teams are formed In determining the placement of a job sharing team, the Covered Employees involved will arrive at a mutually acceptable decision. Said determination must be approved by the principal and Human Resources Department.
11.6.3 Prior to approval, assignment and schedules will be arranged by the Covered Employees and principal. Participants will agree to attend appropriate meetings, parent conferences, back-to- school nights, etc. Where possible, the participants will serve as substitutes for one academic yearanother at the Covered Employees’ established per diem rates.
11.6.4 Covered Employees involved with job sharing will receive one half (½) of all fringe benefits (P.E.R.A., insurance, day leave, etc.). Members who wish to continue in They will also receive half (½) their annual salary, as determined by their position on the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status in the same position that was occupied by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized adopted salary schedule as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis Covered Employee at the same time they begin the job sharing assignment. For purposes of seniority accrual and salary advancement, each job sharing Covered Employee will be credited with one (1) year of service for half each year spent in job sharing. A Non-probationary Covered Employee participating in the job sharing program will not lose Non-probationary Status by participating.
11.6.5 If one (1) member of the job sharing team leaves during the school year, the remaining member of the team will agree to complete the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under as a full-time contractCovered Employee if the District cannot find an acceptable candidate to finish the school year. If a member Covered Employee elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a return to full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent duty, if the District wishes to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received make personnel changes in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request job sharing program, or if the position is filed prior to this timedissolved, the Job Sharing team members job share partner (and the primary job holder if necessary) will be committed to their halfconsidered a voluntary transfer (if having probationary status) and involuntary transfer (if having non-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experienceprobationary status).
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with Teachers may share assignments during the day or week at the elementary or secondary level pursuant to the following guidelines:
a. Job sharing shall refer to two (2) unit members sharing one (1) full-time position.
b. Unit members may apply for sharing of a position either of the applicants holds. Application may also be made for filling vacancies. In such cases, the vacancy must be one which could be filled by at least three (3) consecutive school years one of full time classroom teaching, the applicants pursuant to Article 14.
c. Job sharing assignments shall be filled only by teachers who are seeking have jointly agreed to form a possible Job Sharing team work together and who have indicated in writing to the Assistant Superintendent for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior or his/her designee, their desire to March 1. A listing of interested teachers will job share.
d. Job sharing assignments shall be posted in all buildings by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility granted annually upon mutual agreement of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify teachers and the Executive Director – Human Resources Office. Job share requests may be denied only for cause (e.g., educationally related reasons).
e. Responsibilities of an assignment by April 1 two (2) job sharers may be divided and/or allocated according to a plan designed by the job sharers, with the concurrence of their immediate supervisor. This shall include, but not be limited to, attendance at regular staff meetings, District meetings, parent conferencing, etc.
f. Participants shall be placed appropriately on the teacher's salary schedule, receive one step increment for each year of service, and be given appropriate added increments for advanced degrees or longevity.
g. Unit members working in job sharing positions shall receive a prorated amount of health, welfare, and leave benefits.
h. Job sharing teachers sharing positions who hold full-time tenure rights shall be transferred to full-time employment at the beginning of the school year provided they have informed the Human Resources Office of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis for the following school year. These Job Sharing teams shall be ranked on the basis of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions do so prior to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May April 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status in the same position that was occupied by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. .
i. Substituting: Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick dayssubstitute for each other whenever possible.
j. The provisions in Article 13, job sharers section 20.5 shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, apply to teachers who take a member who retires leave from a position in order to job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent share.
k. A teacher wishing to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together who is unable to coordinate find a suitable partner already employed by the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that District may propose a qualified individual from outside the students will experience District or a consistent, effective educational experienceretired District teacher.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with at least three 11.6.1. For the purpose of this Agreement, job sharing shall refer to the sharing of a single staff position by two (32) consecutive school years of full time classroom teaching, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team Teachers or School Counselors designated as primary job holder and job share partner.
11.6.2. Each job sharing arrangement shall be for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March one (1. A listing of interested teachers will be posted in all buildings by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis for the following ) school year. These Job Sharing teams shall The Teachers or School Counselors may request renewal on a yearly basis. In order for a shared position to be ranked on approved, the basis of two (2) Teachers or School Counselors must complete a District application form. All applications for job sharing and/or renewal must be submitted to the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of Human Resources Department no fewer than twenty (20) percent days prior to the last day of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual buildingWork Year. All members making This application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification must be approved or denied by the last day of acceptance the Work Year. In determining the placement of a job sharing team, the Teachers or rejection no later than May 1School Counselors involved will arrive at a mutually acceptable decision. Job Sharing teams are formed Said determination must be approved by the principal and Human Resources Department.
11.6.3. Prior to approval, assignment and schedules will be arranged by the Teachers or School Counselors and the principal. Participants will agree to attend appropriate meetings, parent conferences, back-to-school nights, etc. Where possible, the participants will serve as substitutes for one academic yearanother at the Teachers’ or School Counselors’ established per diem rates.
11.6.4. Members who wish to continue in Teachers or School Counselors involved with job sharing will receive one half (½) of all fringe benefits (P.E.R.A., insurance, day leave, etc.). They will also receive half (½) their annual salary, as determined by their position on the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status in the same position that was occupied by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized adopted salary schedule as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis Teachers or School Counselors at the same time they begin the job sharing assignment. For purposes of seniority accrual and salary advancement, each job sharing Teacher or School Counselor will be credited with one (1) year of service for half each year spent in job sharing. A non-probationary Teacher or non-probationary School Counselors participating in the job sharing program will not lose non-probationary status by participating.
11.6.5. If one (1) member of the job sharing team leaves during the school year, the remaining member of the team will agree to complete the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under as a full-time contractemployee if the District cannot find an acceptable candidate to finish the school year. If a member Teacher or School Counselor elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a return to full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent duty, if the District wishes to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received make personnel changes in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request job sharing program, or if the position is filed prior to this timedissolved, the Job Sharing team members job share partner (and the primary job holder if necessary) will be committed to their halfconsidered a voluntary transfer (if having probationary status) and involuntary transfer (if having non-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experienceprobationary status).
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with at least three A. Job sharing as defined in this section is a voluntary program providing two (32) consecutive school years tenured teachers in the same department the opportunity to propose the sharing of full time classroom teaching, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March one (1. A listing of interested teachers will be posted in all buildings by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire to be employed on a half) full-time basis teaching position for the following one school year. These Job Sharing teams Tenured teachers who would like to participate in a job share arrangement shall submit a joint application and proposed plan for a job-sharing arrangement to the Superintendent by February 1 of the year preceding the school year for which the job sharing is requested. The job share arrangement shall include, but not be limited to, teaching responsibilities, schedule of work hours and/or days, attendance at staff meetings, in-service days, parent-teacher conferences and other teaching responsibilities. All elements of the plan shall be ranked on the basis of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams consistent with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision provisions of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status Board shall notify the applicants of its disposition of the request by March 1 following the request. The number of job shares in the same position that was occupied by District shall not normally exceed three (3) in any one year. However, additional requests may be considered at the team. Effective with discretion of the 2011administration.
B. Participants in a job-2012 school year, job share teams sharing arrangement shall be organized placed appropriately on the teachers’ salary placement. Salaries shall be pro-rated according to assigned schedules as daily halffollows: 18% per class taught and 10% per supervisory. Contributions to the Teachers’ Retirement System shall be pro-day assignments onlyrated according to the assignments, at the same rates. The practice of working on Each applicant must teach at least two (2) class periods and in all cases the job-sharing arrangement must equal a full-time basis for half teacher equivalent of five (5) teaching periods and one (1) supervisory. Job share participants will both stipulate in their application that either a) only one (1) of the school participants will receive health insurance through the District during the year and not working of the job share; or b) the district will pay a pro-rata fraction of the employer portion of the premium for each employee’s health insurance benefit in an amount equal to 18% multiplied by the number of classes taught plus an additional 10% for conducting a supervisory. Each job share participant is eligible for other half is not permittedbenefits during the length of the job share experience (e.g., sick leave, personal leave, etc.) on a similarly prorated basis. Members assigned If the participants select option b), each agrees to parthave the balance of their health insurance costs deducted from their salaries.
C. If they wish to renew their job share in subsequent years, participants must reapply. Teachers participating in the job-time positions under sharing program as set forth in this section shall accrue seniority points in accordance with Article 11 C.
D. Upon return from a job-sharing arrangement, a teacher shall be compensated at returned to their former positions, seniority permitting, so long as the position still exists. Such return rights shall be applicable for one half (1/21) year. If the level which job share extends for more than one (1) year, the member would receive under teacher shall be returned to a comparable position, if available, upon their return to full-time contract. If employment so long as a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing comparable position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experiencestill exists.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members 18.1 The Board of Trustees shall consider each job sharing request on individual merits. The Board’s discretion is limited only by the provisions of Section 7.3 of this contract.
18.1.1 An initial request to job share, to continue, or discontinue job share, shall be filed with at least three (3) consecutive school years of full time classroom teaching, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to Superintendent by March 1. A listing of interested teachers job share shall continue unless one or both parties request a return to a non-share status. If the unit member requests a non-share status for the forthcoming year, the request will be posted honored when it meets the District’s needs and there are available openings.
18.2 Unit Members involved in job sharing shall:
18.2.1 Be compensated in proportion to the percentage of the position he/she assumes.
18.2.2 Be awarded district benefits in proportion to the position he/she assumes.
18.2.3 Be awarded all statutory and district leaves in proportion to the percentage position he/she assumes.
18.2.4 Participate in all buildings workshops, school-based coordinated days, and inservices during the instructional work year, except when the District, after consulting with the non- scheduled teacher, determines that said teacher need not participate. Required participation by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis said teacher for the following school year. These Job Sharing teams above-mentioned activities shall be ranked on compensated for with a paid day of leave for each day of required participation. Each day of paid leave must be used, given the basis availability of the team members’ combined system-wide senioritysubstitutes, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent working days of the full time classroom teaching positions date of required participation.
18.2.5 Participate in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification scheduled events such as Back-To- School Night, Open House, and Parent Conferences.
18.3 If during the term of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status in the same position that was occupied by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis position becomes available, a job sharing member shall be permitted to return to a full term contract providing he/she qualifies for half that position and an acceptable replacement for the job sharing assignment can be found.
18.4 A teacher’s seniority shall not be affected by job sharing.
18.5 A unit member shall receive a step advancement on the salary schedule if his/her share of the school year and not working the other half job sharing assignment is not permitted. Members assigned equal to part-50% or more of a full time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. assignment.
18.6 If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage job share teacher goes on a paid leave of absence the remaining teacher shall be shared equally by have the member and option of assuming the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days substitute job sharing position without additional benefits at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their halflong-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experienceterm substitute.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members
19.1 Job sharing shall refer to two (2) employees sharing one (1) full-time position, creating one full-time, long-term leave position. In the interest of providing employees the opportunity to reduce their work schedule to fulfill personal needs, the District makes available a job sharing provision of limited duration, according to 19.3.
19.2 Job sharing may be available to employees who have continuing contracts with at least three (3) consecutive school years the District and who have indicated in writing to the Administrator in charge of full time classroom teaching, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing of interested teachers will be posted in all buildings and their respective building principal by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 15 of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis job share for the following ensuing school year. These Such an application will include a Job Sharing teams Share Plan. Responsibilities of an assignment by two (2) job sharers may be divided and/or allocated according to a plan designed by the job sharers, with the approval of their immediate supervisor and the administrator in charge of Human Resources. The building administration may limit the number of job shares to one per building, or may increase the number of job shares if it meets building needs. The Job Share Plan shall address such issues as: compatibility, scheduling, attendance at required meetings and events, working within grade levels or departments, communication plans with parents, etc. If denied, the reasons for the denial shall be ranked on stated in writing to both employees requesting a job share. Disputes over the basis approval of a job share will be resolved by HR/NSEA along with the school principal and interested job-share teachers. The principal or supervisor will notify the employee of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making job share application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1. Job Sharing teams are formed Salary placement and seniority will be consistent with this collective bargaining agreement.
19.3 Employees holding job sharing assignments shall be granted the appropriate annual fractional leave(s), subject to the provisions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Upon approval of a job share, the full-time assignment that becomes available will be filled with an employee on a non-continuing contract for one academic school year. Members Each employee who wish to continue in goes on a job share takes a leave of absence from the portion they are giving up.
19.4 By March 1, the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply arrangement shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member evaluated and may not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit renewed on an individual’s participation in Job Sharingannual basis, not to exceed two (2) consecutive years. The Job Sharing team will assume When job shares are not renewed for the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status in the same position that was occupied by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school following year, each job share teams partner shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice have the right to reclaim the leave portion of working on their contract to resume to a full-time basis for half position. If either employee no longer wants to continue the job share arrangement, the job share shall be terminated at the end of the school year and not working year.
19.5 Job shares may be extended beyond two (2) consecutive years providing each job sharer resigns the other half is not permittedportion they are giving up. Members assigned to Xxx shares who resign a portion of their contract, thereby qualifying as part-time positions under this section shall employees, maintain the right to apply and be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under impartially considered for vacancies if they wish to seek re-employment to a full-time contract. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experiencelater.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with at least three (3) consecutive school years of full time classroom teaching, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing of interested teachers will be posted in all buildings by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis for the following school year. These Job Sharing teams shall be ranked on the basis of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status in the same position that was occupied by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized as daily half-half- day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experience.
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Samples: Master Agreement, Master Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with A. Job-sharing means an assignment under which two (2) members share the duties and responsibilities of one (1) full-time position. Applicants must have at least three (3) consecutive school years of full time classroom teachingyears’ experience with the District.
B. Applicants for a job sharing assignment (“Job-Sharing Team”) must jointly submit a Job- Sharing assignment application together with a proposed schedule not later than April 1, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing of interested teachers will be posted in all buildings by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis for the following succeeding school year. These Job Sharing teams shall The application must set forth:
1. The building, grade level, and subjects to be ranked on shared, including the basis specific subjects to be taught by each member of the Job-Sharing Team and the hours per day and days per week of each team members’ combined systemmember’s proposed assignment.
2. The percentage of the regular full-wide senioritytime work day and week that each member of the Job-Sharing Team plans to spend at the school site, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams together with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent specific teaching schedule for each member of the full time classroom Job-Sharing Team.
3. The teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who wish methods and techniques and grading practices to continue in be used to ensure consistency and compatibility to the Job Sharing instructional program for a subsequent school year pupils.
C. Job-sharing applications must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate in approved by both the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless building principal and by the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated Superintendent or his/her designee. Requests may be approved as proposed or may be approved with a modified schedule, provided that the duties of the position are divided equally between the Team members. The decision to assume partgrant or deny a job-time status sharing request is not subject to the grievance procedure of this Negotiated Agreement. No decision to grant or deny any job sharing request may be considered precedent for any other job sharing request. Job-Sharing Team applicants will be reassigned notified by June 1 of the grant or denial of the request for the succeeding school year.
D. Approval of any Job-Sharing Team request will be subject to the following conditions for each team member:
1. Each Team member will be expected to attend Parent-Teacher Conferences, Teacher work days, IEP conferences and to provide those In-service hours required under this Negotiated Agreement.
2. Each Team member will receive a pro-rata share of salary and benefits under this Negotiated Agreement, including personal leave, sick leave, contributions to health insurance plans and all other benefits of employment.
3. Team members acquire one (1) year of seniority for each year of job sharing.
E. All Job-Sharing assignments are for one (1) year only and may be renewed only upon application and approval as provided above. Unless renewed, the Member Initiated Request Job-Sharing assignment will end at the end of the school year for Transfer provision of this Agreementwhich the assignment is made. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume Members returning to full-time status in the same position that was occupied by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from following a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members assignment will be committed to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only returned in accordance with the mutual consent provisions of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experiencethis Negotiated Agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Negotiated Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with at least three 24.1 Job Sharing is a plan whereby two unit members share the full responsibility for one identifiable self-contained full-time position.
24.2 The job share application (3see Appendix D) consecutive school years will specify the benefits to the District and the students as well as the benefits to the unit members involved. The written application will indicate the name(s) of full time classroom teaching, the unit members who are seeking proposing to form job share and it will indicate how the unit members plan to implement the job share position. The application must show details of how the unit members intend to coordinate their work, insuring that the educational continuity of the class will be preserved.
24.3 Unit members who wish to apply for a possible Job Sharing team job share arrangement shall do so by March 1st of the school year prior to the intended job share. The District exclusively reserves the right of approval. The District may, after March 1st, accept late job share applications that are judged to be in the best interest of the pupils and programs of the District.
24.4 Unit members wishing to participate in a job share shall first apply through their principal to the Human Resources office. At least one of the parties to a job share application must be a permanent unit member. Approval of job share requests shall be determined by an assessment of the proposal, meeting the needs of the students and the school involved as well as those of the unit members. Approval of a job share request shall also be determined by the appropriateness of the job share schedule (as determined by the District) and the District’s ability to obtain a suitable replacement for the following school yearvacancy created by the job share, must notify the Executive Director – should it be necessary to fill said vacancy. The Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing of interested teachers will be posted in all buildings Office shall approve or deny the application by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis for the following school year. These Job Sharing teams shall be ranked on the basis of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who wish to continue in If the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply request is denied, the applicants shall be given priority over newly formed teams the reasons for the denial in writing. Upon receiving the denial, the applicants shall have ten working days to respond to the reasons for the denial and resubmit their application. The District shall respond to the resubmission within ten days. If the resubmitted application is denied, the reasons for the denial shall be detailed in writing.
24.5 Job sharing contracts shall be one (1) year in length. Job share contracts shall not be for less than a .2 FTE for either unit member. Unit members must annually submit a request to job share. The approved application shall be binding on the parties, unless mutually agreed upon by the unit members and the district.
24.6 Responsibilities for an assignment of two (2) job sharers may be divided or allocated according to the plan designed by the job sharers with the concurrence of their immediate supervisor. It is the intent that job sharers fulfill their instructional duties based on the proration of their employment contract. However, it is understood that the coordination of the classroom activities and instruction between the job sharers will likely require more time than if a single unit member was responsible for the class. In addition, each job sharer shall attend a prorated share of the faculty meetings, grade level and department meetings (if applicable). Both unit members shall attend regularly scheduled parent conferences as determined in Article 6. Both unit members will attend back-to-school nights and open- house nights. Preparation time shall be prorated between the job share partners.
24.7 Each job sharing unit member is responsible for notifying the District when a substitute is needed. The teaching team partner is entitled to first call for substitute service. The job share partners may “cover for each consecutive year they wish to participate other” rather than calling for four additional years beyond their first year. a substitute.
24.8 A unit member may who has been approved for a job share will be granted a leave of absence, if necessary, for the portion of the assignment he/she is not participate in working.
24.9 In the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of event that one of the team members. At two job sharing unit members is unable to fulfill the conclusion terms of Job Sharing, the job share contract the remaining job sharing unit member who vacated his/her position shall have the options of:
24.9.1 converting to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status employment in that position, or
24.9.2 continuing the same position that was occupied job share with another unit member mutually agreed upon by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, remaining job share teams shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the sharing unit member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at district,
24.9.3 continuing the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and timeshare with another qualified teacher. If no withdrawal request this teacher is filed prior to this timenot a current unit member, the Job Sharing team members regular hiring protocol will be committed to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experienceused.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with at least three (3) consecutive school years of full time classroom teaching, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team for is defined as an experience in which two employees from the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing of interested teachers will be posted in all buildings by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current same grade level or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis for the following school year. These Job Sharing teams shall be ranked on the basis of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1department share one position. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic may occur under the following circumstances:
A. Job share requests will be considered on a year. Members who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school -by-year must reapplybasis. Job sharing teams which reapply shall occur by agreement among the administration and the two job sharing employees. The Association shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate informed, in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement writing, of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation all job sharing proposals and agreements.
B. Participation by employees in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status in the same position that was occupied by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed he voluntary.
C. Employees jointly holding 'a job share position shall attend, without additional compensation, all meetings which are required by the provisions of this collective bargaining agreement and all half and whole in-service days. If an in-service day is held on a day on which a job share employee is not scheduled to work, the basis school department's child care facilities will be made available to that teacher without charge for the duration of the member’s daily rate in-service session.
D. Only one of pay had said member been employed under the two job share partners will be eligible for full-time health benefits. The job share partners shall mutually agree, in writing, to the health benefit arrangement. The result will be a cost neutral impact upon the school system.
E. Requests for job sharing shall be submitted to the building principal no later than March 1st for implementation in the subsequent school year.
F. The building principal must initially approve all job share requests with final approval to be granted by the Superintendent of Schools.
G. The principal and the two job share partners will mutually set a schedule with regard to work hours which shall ensure that job share responsibilities are equally shared between the two employees.
H. Job share employee will do all reporting collaboratively. At the elementary level, the job share employees will conduct parent conferences together as per the school calendar.
I. A full-time employee desiring to enter into a job share position will inform the Principal and the Superintendent of Schools in writing, that s/he is willing to accept the reduction from a full-time contract. Any member to a part-time position.
J. If a lay-off occurs while the job share is in place, and one of the job share partners is reached for layoff, then the remaining partner shall have the option of electing to accept a Job Sharing team may withdraw hisfull-time position for which s/her consent he is entitled to be under Article 32, or the law, or being placed on the recall list as provided therein.
K. If unforeseen or extenuating circumstances occur to one of the partners, causing a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal job sharing experience to end prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before end of the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, the Employer will first seek a volunteer to fill the absent partner position. If there is no volunteer, then the Employer will make every reasonable effort to fill the absent partner's position with a long-term substitute. If there is no volunteer and no long-term substitute can be retained, the team may be dissolved only with remaining partner shall have the mutual consent option of both team members and electing to accept the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members full-time position or accepting an unpaid leave of absence for the remainder of the school year.
L. Employees hired to fill a vacancy caused by the creation of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters sharing experience will be so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experiencenotified in writing at their time of hire.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with at least three Job sharing shall be defined as a voluntary program providing two (32) consecutive school teachers, who have been employed by the District for four years of prior to beginning to share a job, the opportunity to request permission to share one (1) full time classroom teaching, who are seeking teaching position. The granting of a job sharing arrangement shall be subject to form a possible Job Sharing team for the following school year, must notify guidelines:
a. Teachers who would like to participate in a job-sharing position shall submit an application and proposed plan for a job sharing leave to the Executive Director – Human Resources Superintendent or designee on/or prior to March 1. A listing of interested February 15 immediately preceding the school year for which the job share is requested.
b. The job-sharing plan shall include, but not be limited to: teaching responsibilities, attendance at in-service meetings, availability for student assistance, and current extra-curricular activities.
c. Both teachers will be posted responsible for acquiring the information provided at faculty meetings, in-service meetings, and school improvement days.
d. The teachers are expected to attend parent conferences, open house/curriculum night, portfolio night, and institute days.
e. The actual daily schedule for the partners in all buildings by March 10a job sharing position will be worked out between the participants and the building principal. The posting will contain Board shall notify the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility applicants for a job sharing leave of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis for the following school year. These Job Sharing teams shall be ranked on the basis disposition of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection request no later than May 1March 31. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one sum of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status portions shall not exceed 100%.)
f. Participants in the same position that was occupied by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed be placed appropriately on the basis salary schedule and salaries shall be prorated according to portion of the member’s daily rate year worked. (The sum of pay had said member been employed under the portions shall not exceed 100%.)
g. Contributions to the Teachers’ Retirement System will be proportionate to the time worked and to the salary earned.
h. Participants in job sharing positions will receive a fullprorated amount of insurance premium and paid leave benefits.
i. Seniority shall accrue in proportion to the time worked.
j. Participants in job-time contract. Any member sharing positions shall be considered on a leave of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to absence for those portions of the school work hours and/or days that they are not working.
k. Tenure rights for participants in job-sharing positions shall be a team member maintained.
l. The length of job-sharing leave shall be for the subsequent one (1) school year and may be renewed by submitting the Board, provided that a written request for withdrawal to renew is made on/or prior to 5:00 P.M. on February 1, immediately preceding the Monday before school year for which the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and timeleave is requested. If no withdrawal such a request is filed prior to this timemade, the Job Sharing team members will be committed Board shall notify the participants of its disposition by March 15 following the request.
m. The decision to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of grant a job share team shall work together sharing leave or program is at the sole discretion of the Board of Education and is not subject to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experiencegrievance procedure.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with at least three (3) consecutive school years of full time classroom teaching, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing job shared assignment may be requested after a teacher's third full year of interested teachers service. In the event a non-tenured teacher is approved as the job-sharing partner, the non-tenured teacher will be posted given part-time employment status. Teachers who share positions may apply for a second successive year, but a participant in all buildings by March 10a job sharing leave have no vested right in its renewal or extension.
2. The posting A job shared assignment must be for one academic year, beginning in August/September and ending in June.
3. Each year, Xxxxxx will contain allow up to five job-shared teaching positions in the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignmentdistrict.
4. The formation of Job Sharing teams It is the responsibility of the teacher interested partiesin job sharing to make every attempt to fill the job share position by another tenured teacher, both of whom are included on the seniority list for the department in which the job sharing position is requested. By March 1, the job sharing partners are to submit a written letter of request to the individual’s supervisor, who will forward the request to the superintendent, building principal and assistant superintendent for Human Resources. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must Both job sharing partners need to be named in the request. Approval will be made based on consideration of staffing needs. Every effort will be made to notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 job sharers of their desire status by May 1st. If more than five sets of partners apply and are qualified for participation, selection of participants will be made by lot. Approved job sharing positions are irrevocable except by mutual consent of the district and job sharing partners or by resignation of one or both partners. In the event that one partner resigns, the remaining tenured partner must assume the full assignment.
5. During the year of job sharing the tenured participating teachers will retain seniority and tenure within the district as if they were assigned full time responsibilities. Participation in the fringe benefit program will be available to be employed on tenured staff at a prorated basis and limited to those items the staff members participated in during the previous year. For each year of job sharing a tenured staff member will receive one half-time basis for the following school yearyear seniority. These Job Sharing teams shall be ranked The tenured staff member will move a year on the basis salary schedule for every two years of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first yearjob sharing.
6. A member teacher may not participate in job sharing immediately following or preceding any other approved leave, except for maternity/child rearing leave.
7. During the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement year of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharingjob sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status sick leave will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status in allocated and, if necessary, may be used on the same position that was occupied by basis as if the teamteacher had a full time assignment. Effective with Sick leave allocated and not used during the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall year will be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working allowed to accumulate on a full-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. pro- rated basis. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on partner is absent, the basis other partner will be given first right of refusal for assuming the assignment at the prevailing class substitution rate. If the partner is unable to assume the substitution responsibility, substitutes will be obtained per Article X, Section 22 of the member’s daily rate Union Board Agreement.
8. All participating job sharers will attend parent-teacher conference programs, and in service/institute days. One of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contractthe job sharers must attend scheduled departmental meetings and building meetings and then share the information with the other partner.
9. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members Classroom teaching assignments will be committed to their halfeither 2 classes (40% salary) or 3 classes (60% salary) and assigned by the building principal. Non-classroom assignments will be equally divided (50% salary each) and assigned by the building principal. Specific required in-school hours will be established by the building principal at the time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experience.agreement is approved.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with at least
15.1 Unit members who have completed three (3) consecutive school years of full service with satisfactory evaluations may apply to participate in job sharing.
15.2 Applicants must submit a written proposal for job sharing to the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, listing the proposed work schedule, assignment, duties, and the advantages to the instructional program.
15.3 As soon as possible, unit members should be notified of acceptance into the job sharing program. Acceptance of unit members into the job sharing program shall be at the discretion of the Superintendent. Existing job sharing positions shall be subject to annual review by the Principal. Should a unit member's request for job sharing be denied, the Superintendent, upon request, shall provide written reasons therefore.
15.4 Following approval of the job sharing proposals by the Superintendent, job sharers shall meet with the principal of the proposed job sharing site. At this meeting the job sharers shall present and discuss their plan of how they intend to allocate and/or divide their responsibilities as they relate to parent-teacher conferences, yearly and daily instructional plans, scheduling of adequate contract time classroom teachingbetween the job sharers to ensure continuity of the program, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team for and duties specified in Section 6.22 of the Agreement.
15.5 In considering the acceptance of the job sharer's plan, the principal shall use, but is not limited to, the following criteria: prior performance evaluations, number of job shared positions at site, and compatibility of job sharer's philosophies of education and discipline. If the principal decides against the job sharers' plan, he/she shall give such reasons verbally to the unit members at the meeting and will reduce said reasons to writing if requested.
15.6 Periodically, with adequate prior notice, the principal may require the job sharers to meet and discuss their program and its continuity.
15.7 Participants will be responsible for adequate planning with their partners and for short and long range lesson plans to be reviewed by the principal or immediate supervisor. Lesson plan requirements shall not exceed those required by other unit members.
15.8 Job sharing applicants may apply to work one-half (1/2) of the school year or one-half (1/2) of each day during the school year, must notify or any other arrangement as mutually agreed to by the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing of interested teachers will unit member and the unit member's principal.
15.9 Job sharing assignments shall be posted in all buildings filled by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members unit members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire jointly requested to be employed on work together. Should a unit member requesting half-time basis for employment be unable to secure a job sharing partner within the following unit, the unit member may submit a written proposal to the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources requesting that a job sharer be secured from outside the District. Such request will be considered by the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources and may be granted at the discretion of the Superintendent. Periodically, with adequate prior notice, the principal may require the job sharers to meet and discuss their program and its continuity.
15.10 Participants in job sharing will be placed on a fifty percent (50%) teaching assignment and on a fifty percent (50%) uncompensated leave of absence. Participants shall not lose full-time tenure credit they have previously accumulated in the school year. These Job Sharing teams district.
15.11 Participants will receive one-half (½) the salary they would receive if they were working full-time.
15.12 Participants shall be ranked placed appropriately on the basis of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, Teachers' Salary Schedule and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned given appropriate added increments for advanced degrees.
15.13 Job Sharing positions sharing participants must contribute to a maximum the State Teachers' Retirement System and will receive credit for one-half (½) year of twentyservice toward retirement.
15.14 A participating unit member will receive credit each year for one (1) full year's advancement on the salary schedule when such unit member is on duty for seventy-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (2075%) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions total number of days in an individual buildingwhich the schools of the District are in regular session. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May Effective July 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members , 1983, job sharers who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may do not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twentywork seventy-five (2575%) teams has not been filled. Only of the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 total number of days in which the schools of the District are in regular session shall be counted toward the ten granted one (101) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharingyear's salary advancement for each two (2) full years of service as a job sharer. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one Notwithstanding, Section 7.1, unit members sharing a position shall receive fifty (50%) percent of the team members. At annual District contribution for the conclusion health and welfare benefit package or may split one benefit package, subject to the approval of Job Sharing, the District's health and welfare benefit carriers.
15.15 The District's commitment to the unit member who vacated his/her position electing to assume partwork one-half (½) time status in job sharing will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume fullone-half (½) time status employment in the same position that was occupied by the teamfuture. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick daysHowever, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their halfpriority for full-time rate per day employment over temporary or substitute employees.
15.16 If the job sharer desires to increase from part-time to full-time employment, such increase shall depend upon the staffing needs of usethe District and the unit member's qualifications. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from In the event that a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under sharer requests to return to a full-time contract. Any member teaching assignment, the District shall consider such requests in the same manner as it considers requests for voluntary transfers.
15.17 A request to return to a full-time assignment must be submitted to the Human Resources Office on or before March 1 of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on preceding the Monday before school year in which the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their halffull-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experienceassignment would take place.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with 17.1 Unit members wishing to participate in the job-sharing program must first apply through their principal. Mutual agreement between the unit members, the principal and the Superintendent is required before the shared position can be finalized and implemented.
17.2 A condition of entry into shared position shall be that the affected unit members shall decide between themselves which of them shall have the right to retain the shared position, in the event both unit members wish subsequently to return to a regular, full-time position.
17.3 The shared position shall be approved for a maximum of one school year at least three a time.
17.4 A unit member on a job-shared assignment who performs substitute duties for his/her co- worker or other unit member outside of his/her assignment during an unassigned work time shall be paid for that service according to the current substitute salary schedule.
17.5 If a job-sharer leaves for a long-term illness or absence, (3two [2] calendar weeks) consecutive school the remaining partner shall assume teaching responsibilities during the absence.
17.6 Unit members wishing to return to full-time status after participation in the program shall, upon request, be granted full-time contracts, providing full-time positions are available and they are qualified and credentialed to fill said positions.
17.7 Salaries of participants in the job-sharing program shall be paid and benefits granted on the same basis as his/her assignment is proportional to full-time services. In no event shall the total cost exceed the cost of one (1) full-time equivalent unit member.
17.8 Participants in the job-sharing program shall be required to attend meetings as deemed appropriate to fulfill their professional responsibilities which may or may not occur during their work duty time and perform mandated, non-instructional and adjunct duties required of all unit members. All provisions of an assignment, including but not limited, to allocation of preparation time and homeroom assignment shall be outlined and agreed upon in a job-share contract which shall be executed prior to any assignment being approved.
17.9 Salary credit for job-share participants shall be granted on full-time equivalent service only (one step movement on the salary schedule for every two years in the job-share program).
17.10 Teachers in the job-share program must notify the District prior to March 1st of full time classroom teaching, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team their intent for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing of interested teachers will be posted in all buildings by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis for the following school year. These Job Sharing teams shall be ranked on the basis of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status in the same position that was occupied by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experience.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with 20.1 Unit members wishing to participate in the job-sharing program must first apply through their principal. Mutual agreement between the unit members, the principal and the Superintendent is required before the shared position can be finalized and implemented.
20.2 A condition of entry into shared position shall be that the affected unit members shall decide between themselves which of them shall have the right to retain the shared position, in the event both unit members wish subsequently to return to a regular, full-time position.
20.3 The shared position shall be approved for a maximum of one school year at least three a time.
20.4 A unit member on a job-shared assignment who performs substitute duties for his/her co- worker or other unit member outside of his/her assignment during an unassigned work time shall be paid for that service according to the current substitute salary schedule.
20.5 If a job-sharer leaves for a long-term illness or absence, (3two [2] calendar weeks) consecutive school the remaining partner shall assume teaching responsibilities during the absence.
20.6 Unit members wishing to return to full-time status after participation in the program shall, upon request, be granted full-time contracts, providing full-time positions are available and they are qualified and credentialed to fill said positions.
20.7 Salaries of participants in the job-sharing program shall be paid and benefits granted on the same basis as his/her assignment is proportional to full-time services. In no event shall the total cost exceed the cost of one (1) full-time equivalent unit member.
20.8 Participants in the job-sharing program shall be required to attend meetings as deemed appropriate to fulfill their professional responsibilities which may or may not occur during their work duty time and perform mandated, non-instructional and adjunct duties required of all unit members. All provisions of an assignment, including but not limited, to allocation of preparation time and homeroom assignment shall be outlined and agreed upon in a job-share contract which shall be executed prior to any assignment being approved.
20.9 Salary credit for job-share participants shall be granted on full-time equivalent service only (one step movement on the salary schedule for every two years in the job-share program).
20.10 Teachers in the job-share program must notify the District prior to March 1st of full time classroom teaching, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team their intent for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing of interested teachers will be posted in all buildings by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire to be employed on a half-time basis for the following school year. These Job Sharing teams shall be ranked on the basis of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status in the same position that was occupied by the team. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experience.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
JOB SHARING. Members with at least three (3) consecutive school years of full time classroom teaching, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team for the following school year, must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing job shared assignment may be requested after a teacher's third full year of interested teachers service. In the event a non-tenured teacher is approved as the job-sharing partner, the non-tenured teacher will be posted given part-time employment status. Teachers who share positions may apply for a second successive year, but a participant in all buildings by March 10a job sharing leave have no vested right in its renewal or extension.
2. The posting A job shared assignment must be for one academic year, beginning in August/September and ending in June.
3. Each year, Xxxxxx will contain allow up to five job-shared teaching positions in the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignmentdistrict.
4. The formation of Job Sharing teams It is the responsibility of the teacher interested partiesin job sharing to make every attempt to fill the job share position by another tenured teacher, both of whom are included on the seniority list for the department in which the job sharing position is requested. Members By March 1, the job sharing partners are to submit a written letter of request to the individual’s supervisor, who have formed Job Sharing teams must will forward the request to the superintendent, building principal and assistant superintendent for Human Resources. Both job sharing partners need to be named in the request. Approval will be made based on consideration of staffing needs. Every effort will be made to notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 job sharers of their desire status by May 1st. If more than five sets of partners apply and are qualified for participation, selection of participants will be made by lot. Approved job sharing positions are irrevocable except by mutual consent of the district and job sharing partners or by resignation of one or both partners. In the event that one partner resigns, the remaining tenured partner must assume the full assignment.
5. During the year of job sharing the tenured participating teachers will retain seniority and tenure within the district as if they were assigned full time responsibilities. Participation in the fringe benefit program will be available to be employed on tenured staff at a prorated basis and limited to those items the staff members participated in during the previous year. For each year of job sharing a tenured staff member will receive one half-time basis for the following school yearyear seniority. These Job Sharing teams shall be ranked The tenured staff member will move a year on the basis salary schedule for every two years of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned Job Sharing positions to a maximum of twenty-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (20) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions in an individual building. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first yearjob sharing.
6. A member teacher may not participate in job sharing immediately following or preceding any other approved leave, except for maternity/child rearing leave.
7. During the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement year of twenty-five (25) teams has not been filled. Only the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 shall be counted toward the ten (10) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharing. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one of the team members. At the conclusion of Job Sharingjob sharing, the member who vacated his/her position to assume part-time status sick leave will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume full-time status in allocated and, if necessary, may be used on the same position that was occupied by basis as if the teamteacher had a full time assignment. Effective with Sick leave allocated and not used during the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall year will be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working allowed to accumulate on a fullpro-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contractrated basis. If a member elects job sharing partner is absent, the other partner will be given first right of refusal for assuming the assignment at the prevailing class substitution rate. If the partner is unable to take fringe benefitsassume the substitution responsibility, costs for hospitalizationsubstitutes will be obtained per Article X, term life insuranceSection 22 of the Union Board Agreement.
8. All participating job sharers will attend parent-teacher conference programs, dental and vision coverage shall in service/institute days. One of the job sharers must attend scheduled departmental meetings and building meetings and then share the information with the other partner.
9. Classroom teaching assignments will be shared equally either 2 classes (40% salary) or 3 classes (60% salary) and assigned by the member building principal. Non-classroom assignments will be equally divided (50% salary each) and assigned by the Boardbuilding principal. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days Specific required in-school hours will be established by the building principal at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick days, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their half-time rate per day of use. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under a full-time contract. Any member of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on the Monday before the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request agreement is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their half-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experienceapproved.
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JOB SHARING. Members with at least 15.1 Unit members who have completed three (3) consecutive school years of full service with satisfactory evaluations may apply to participate in job sharing.
15.2 Applicants must submit a written proposal for job sharing to the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, listing the proposed work schedule, assignment, duties, and the advantages to the instructional program.
15.3 As soon as possible, unit members should be notified of acceptance into the job sharing program. Acceptance of unit members into the job sharing program shall be at the discretion of the Superintendent. Existing job sharing positions shall be subject to annual review by the Principal. Should a unit member's request for job sharing be denied, the Superintendent, upon request, shall provide written reasons therefore.
15.4 Following approval of the job sharing proposals by the Superintendent, job sharers shall meet with the principal of the proposed job sharing site. At this meeting the job sharers shall present and discuss their plan of how they intend to allocate and/or divide their responsibilities as they relate to parent-teacher conferences, yearly and daily instructional plans, scheduling of adequate contract time classroom teachingbetween the job sharers to ensure continuity of the program, who are seeking to form a possible Job Sharing team for and duties specified in Section 6.22 of the Agreement.
15.5 In considering the acceptance of the job sharer's plan, the principal shall use, but is not limited to, the following criteria: prior performance evaluations, number of job shared positions at site, and compatibility of job sharer's philosophies of education and discipline. If the principal decides against the job sharers' plan, he/she shall give such reasons verbally to the unit members at the meeting and will reduce said reasons to writing if requested.
15.6 Periodically, with adequate prior notice, the principal may require the job sharers to meet and discuss their program and its continuity.
15.7 Participants will be responsible for adequate planning with their partners and for short and long range lesson plans to be reviewed by the principal or immediate supervisor. Lesson plan requirements shall not exceed those required by other unit members.
15.8 Job sharing applicants may apply to work one-half (1/2) of the school year or one-half (1/2) of each day during the school year, must notify or any other arrangement as mutually agreed to by the Executive Director – Human Resources prior to March 1. A listing of interested teachers will unit member and the unit member's principal.
15.9 Job sharing assignments shall be posted in all buildings filled by March 10. The posting will contain the member names, certification and current or most recent teaching assignment. The formation of Job Sharing teams is the responsibility of the interested parties. Members unit members who have formed Job Sharing teams must notify the Executive Director – Human Resources by April 1 of their desire jointly requested to be employed on work together. Should a unit member requesting half-time basis for employment be unable to secure a job sharing partner within the following unit, the unit member may submit a written proposal to the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources requesting that a job sharer be secured from outside the District. Such request will be considered by the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources and may be granted at the discretion of the Superintendent. Periodically, with adequate prior notice, the principal may require the job sharers to meet and discuss their program and its continuity.
15.10 Participants in job sharing will be placed on a fifty percent (50%) teaching assignment and on a fifty percent (50%) uncompensated leave of absence. Participants shall not lose full-time tenure credit they have previously accumulated in the school year. These Job Sharing teams district.
15.11 Participants will receive one-half (½) the salary they would receive if they were working full-time.
15.12 Participants shall be ranked placed appropriately on the basis of the team members’ combined system-wide seniority, Teachers' Salary Schedule and – in cases of ties – earliest hire date; those teams with the greatest seniority and/or earliest hire date shall be assigned given appropriate added increments for advanced degrees.
15.13 Job Sharing positions sharing participants must contribute to a maximum the State Teachers' Retirement System and will receive credit for one-half (½) year of twentyservice toward retirement.
15.14 A participating unit member will receive credit each year for one (1) full year's advancement on the salary schedule when such unit member is on duty for seventy-five (25) teams per year and a maximum of twenty (2075%) percent of the full time classroom teaching positions total number of days in an individual buildingwhich the schools of the District are in regular session. All members making application for Job Sharing positions shall receive notification of acceptance or rejection no later than May Effective July 1. Job Sharing teams are formed for one academic year. Members , 1983, job sharers who wish to continue in the Job Sharing program for a subsequent school year must reapply. Job sharing teams which reapply shall be given priority over newly formed teams for each consecutive year they wish to participate for four additional years beyond their first year. A member may do not participate in the Job Sharing program for more than ten (10) school years unless the full complement of twentywork seventy-five (2575%) teams has not been filled. Only of the school years subsequent to 1995-1996 total number of days in which the schools of the District are in regular session shall be counted toward the ten granted one (101) year limit on an individual’s participation in Job Sharingyear's salary advancement for each two (2) full years of service as a job sharer. The Job Sharing team will assume the present teaching assignment of one Notwithstanding, Section 7.1, unit members sharing a position shall receive fifty (50%) percent of the team members. At annual District contribution for the conclusion health and welfare benefit package or may split one benefit package, subject to the approval of Job Sharing, the District's health and welfare benefit carriers.
15.15 The District's commitment to the unit member who vacated his/her position electing to assume partwork one-half (½) time status in job sharing will be reassigned under the Member Initiated Request for Transfer provision of this Agreement. The member who retained his/her assignment during Job Sharing will assume fullone-half (½) time status employment in the same position that was occupied by the teamfuture. Effective with the 2011-2012 school year, job share teams shall be organized as daily half-day assignments only. The practice of working on a full-time basis for half of the school year and not working the other half is not permitted. Members assigned to part-time positions under this section shall be compensated at one half (1/2) the level which the member would receive under a full-time contract. If a member elects to take fringe benefits, costs for hospitalization, term life insurance, dental and vision coverage shall be shared equally by the member and the Board. Job sharers shall accumulate sick days at the rate of 7.5 days annually. Upon use of sick daysHowever, job sharers shall have one-half day deducted from their accumulated sick day total per day of use, and shall be paid at their halfpriority for full-time rate per day employment over temporary or substitute employees.
15.16 If the job sharer desires to increase from part-time to full-time employment, such increase shall depend upon the staffing needs of usethe District and the unit member's qualifications. For severance pay computation purposes, a member who retires from In the event that a job sharing position shall have his or her severance benefit computed on the basis of the member’s daily rate of pay had said member been employed under sharer requests to return to a full-time contract. Any member teaching assignment, the District shall consider such requests in the same manner as it considers requests for voluntary transfers.
15.17 A request to return to a full-time assignment must be submitted to the Human Resources Office on or before March 1 of a Job Sharing team may withdraw his/her consent to be a team member for the subsequent school year by submitting a written request for withdrawal prior to 5:00 P.M. on preceding the Monday before school year in which the second Board meeting in April of each year. The request to be removed from a Job Sharing team must be received in the Department of Human Resources by this specified date and time. If no withdrawal request is filed prior to this time, the Job Sharing team members will be committed to their halffull-time Job Sharing contracts for the following school year, and the team may be dissolved only with the mutual consent of both team members and the Executive Director – Human Resources. All teachers who are members of a job share team shall work together to coordinate the curriculum instruction, classroom rules, approach to discipline, homework policies, and all other educational matters so that the students will experience a consistent, effective educational experienceassignment would take place.
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