Normal School Working Hours. The normal in-school workday shall be eight (8) hours, which shall include a thirty (30) minute duty free lunch period, incremented lunchroom supervision assignments excepted. Excluded from such hours are extra-curricular assignments and meetings scheduled by the Employer. Specific work hours for an upcoming year will be provided along with the issuing of new contracts. Employees will be allowed to flex up to fifteen (15) minutes on both sides of a given day so long as eight (8) total hours are worked and they arrive at least fifteen (15) minutes before students begin classes and depart no earlier than fifteen (15) minutes after student dismissal. This will not be possible when scheduled meetings are called by the administration or when student supervision of an emergency nature is needed as determined by the building principal. Staff will be expected to provide a flex plan to their building evaluator prior to the first day of each semester and to utilize such schedule every day of that semester. Employees will notify their evaluator as soon as possible when events that cannot be predicted disrupt this flex schedule. Flex requests will be renewed prior to each subsequent semester. Additionally, employees agree to communicate their flex schedule to their students, parents and colleagues. On Fridays and days immediately preceding holidays or vacations, employees may depart their buildings fifteen (15) minutes before the regular dismissal time, provided student supervision of an emergency nature is not needed as determined by the building principal. On days immediately preceding holidays or vacations, where students are released early, employees may leave fifteen (15) minutes after student dismissal provided student supervision of an emergency nature is not needed as determined by the building principal and provided the District Calendar does not require staff to participate in end of term grade reporting on that day.
