Release Time for Association Business. 4.4.1 To secure release time for Association and/or CSEA Chapter business, a Unit Member shall first secure approval for release time from the Association and/or Chapter. Upon Association and/or Chapter approval, the Unit Member shall submit a request for approval of release time to the Unit Member’s immediate supervisor seventy-two (72) hours in advance. Leave request must state reason for and duration of release time. The request for release time may be denied if it is determined the request would adversely affect department operations.
4.4.2 Providing it does not require the hiring of a substitute employee the Employer will provide release time to Unit Members to attend the CSEA Annual Conference for five (5) days annually. If the Unit Member is in paid status, the Employer will pay the salary and benefits for two (2) Unit Members attending said conference and the Chapter will reimburse the Employer for the cost of salary and benefits paid to all other attendees.
4.4.3 Should the Association and/or Chapter desire the release of Unit Members to attend trainings or other union business the procedure set forth in 4.4.1 above shall be complied with. The Association and/or Chapter shall confirm in writing its agreement to reimburse the Employer for the cost of salary and benefits paid by the Employer to Unit Members who have been provided the requested release time.
Release Time for Association Business. For the duration of this Agreement the President of the Association shall be granted leave for up to 3 hours (class periods for Middle and High School teachers) per day and up to fifteen (15) days during the school year, provided that: (a) acceptable adjustments can be made for continuity of instruction or for service provided by the President to the District; (b) the Association will submit the name of its President and inform the District about the amount of leave to be granted; (c) during the leave, the President will receive the pay and benefits he/she would have received, with salary advancements and adjustments, had he/she remained in his/her last position with the District; and, (d) the Association will reimburse the District the cost (salary and benefits, if applicable) of the replacement teacher who enters the classroom of the President. For fifteen (15) full day release days, a twenty-four (24) hour notice will be given to the District. Sick days and personal days will be the equivalent of a full-time teacher. All other District provided benefits shall be the same as offered to all other teachers. During the term of this Agreement the president will continue to advance one step on the salary schedule and will be granted an equivalent number of years toward retirement. At the end of the term of office, the President has the right to resume full-time teaching in the same assignment, or equivalent position. Association leave will be approved for the number of official delegates verified for the Association’s bi-annual representative assemblies. The association will notify the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources by May 15 of the prior school year of the dates and number of staff in the subsequent school year who will be attending the representative assemblies. Additional days of professional leave requested by the Association for Association business will be granted if the Association reimburses the district for the cost of the substitute teacher and the Superintendent of his/her designee approves such request.
Release Time for Association Business. In the event release time is not appropriate for assignments in this Article, upon request of the Association president, Association representatives shall be granted an equivalent paid credit-based assignment for the purpose of fulfilling such responsibilities, providing appointments of part-time faculty requiring a temporary contracted position shall be made in accordance with Article 25.2. The Association will reimburse the College for actual costs, as defined in Article 11.4.3.
Release Time for Association Business.
3.1 The District will allow release time for Association related professional business. This includes, but is not limited to, president-elect workshops, WEA rep assemblies, special training workshops, conferences, national or state Association business, or other business mutually agreed to by both parties. A maximum of forty-five (45) total release days per school year will be available to the Association provided that no more than five (5) employees use this leave in one day. Requests for Association leave must be made in writing by the Association president to the supervisor of the individual requesting the release time and approved by the superintendent at least two (2) days prior to its intended use, whenever possible. Thirty (30) of the forty-five (45) days are to be exclusively for the use of the president of the Association and will be used at an average of one day per week during the school year. The Association will pay the cost of the substitute(s) to the District within twenty (20) days of the release time.
Release Time for Association Business. 4.6.1 The exclusive representative (president or his/her designee) shall have up to a maximum of fifteen (15) days for Association business at the Association’s expense with the following provisions:
4.6.1.1 The request must be submitted with five (5) days’ notice. Approval is subject to the availability of substitutes. Notice shorter if certificated substitutes can be found.
4.6.1.2 All Association representatives must be designated by the Association president.
4.6.1.3 Special occasions and extraordinary events such as impasse, fact finding, mediation or grievance may require additional release time.
4.6.1.4 No more than five (5) Association representatives are to be released on any one (1) given duty day.
4.6.1.5 Release time shall not be used for the purpose of withholding service.
Release Time for Association Business. 1. The employer shall provide at no cost to the Association thirty (30) days per school year of released time for the handling of Association business as deemed appropriate by the Association President. The Association shall be granted five (5) additional days to be used for projects mutually agreed upon by the Superintendent and the MEA/NEA Local 1, Lakeview President/Designee. The Association may use additional days with the approval of the Superintendent/Designee by reimbursing the Board for the cost of the substitute for the released teacher.
2. An additional thirty-six (36) days or other released time as mutually agreed upon will be available to the Association President for Association business. For non-classroom / itinerant staff serving as president, a commensurate caseload reduction will be made.
3. Any teacher engaged in any grievance or required as an essential witness in any grievance during the school day shall be released from regular duties without loss of salary, provided that the Superintendent or appropriate administrator has requested that such grievance meeting be held during the school day.
4. Teachers shall be released from their regular duties without loss of pay to meet with MERC or an arbitrator, provided that their presence is essential to such proceedings. Up to three (3) persons may be so designated in any single proceeding. If the Association shall request any additional persons be released from their regular duties, the Association shall notify the Board as to which of the following options shall be utilized:
Option 1 - Lakeview teachers currently under contract shall substitute for such released teacher. Option 2 -- The Association shall reimburse the Board for the cost of substitutes for such released teachers. In such case, the Association may select a qualified substitute. Option 3 -- Such days shall be deducted from Association days, as specified above.
5. The Association shall be given up to one hour for the purpose of a general membership meeting following the district’s staff meeting on the first day of school. The general membership meeting will be included in the first day agenda sent to members.
Release Time for Association Business. 27 The Chapter President and/or designated representative(s) will be allowed, without loss of pay to a 28 maximum six (6) workdays per year for the purpose of conducting Association business or to attend 29 regional or State PSE events. The Chapter President and or designee shall provide the Superintendent 30 and the employee’s supervisor at least five (5) workdays notice of each employee’s use of Association 31 leave. No more than two (2) employees district-wide may utilize such leave on any given day. 33 The Association shall reimburse the District for the cost of a substitute for each day of Association 34 Business Leave, should one be required. If the Association uses more than the agreed to number of 35 days, the Association shall reimburse the District for the full cost of the employee’s wages and 36 benefits, plus the cost of a substitute, if one was required.
Release Time for Association Business. Up to three (3)designated Association representatives (in addition to the Association’s business agent) shall be allowed, as long as there is no disruption in work, a reasonable amount of release time off without loss of pay for purposes of participating in meetings and conferring or meeting and consulting sessions with City representatives on matters within the scope of representation. Such Association representatives shall first obtain permission through the appropriate management channel before leaving the work or work location.
Release Time for Association Business. Upon appropriate notice and schedule coordination with the immediate supervisor, the Chapter President, or designee(s), shall be entitled to sixty (60) full eight (8) hour days per school year of release time exclusive of negotiations and annual CSEA Conference not to exceed ten (10) members with no loss of pay for the purpose of conducting lawful Association business. Such release time may be taken in any length segments, except that if a replacement is hired, release time must be taken for a minimum of four (4) hours. Upon mutual agreement, additional release time may be granted as needed. Release time shall be requested on the CSEA employee release time notice signed by the chapter president (or designee) and the employee’s immediate supervisor. Upon appropriate notice and schedule coordination with the immediate supervisor, the Chapter President or designee(s) shall also be entitled to release time exclusive of negotiations with no loss of pay for the purpose of conducting lawful Association State-level business. Such release time may be taken in any length segments, except that if a replacement is hired, release time must be taken for a minimum of four (4) hours. The Chapter president will have fifty percent (50% of their work day release time every day to conduct Association business. The release time shall be mutually set by the Chapter President and his/her immediate supervisor at the beginning of the President’s contractual year. Release time shall be requested in writing from the CSEA state or local office to the District. The District will be reimbursed by CSEA the cost of release time for State-level business.
Release Time for Association Business. 28 The President of the Association and designated representatives will be provided time off without loss 29 of pay to a maximum of ten (10) total days per year to attend regional or State meeting or to attend to 30 Association business.
