Volunteering in Schools Under the Family School Sample Clauses

Volunteering in Schools Under the Family School. Partnership Act (FSPA): Approved paid or unpaid leave may be used for, but is not limited to, the following activities- helping with a class party, chaperoning a field trip, attending an assembly, serving on a committee, tutoring, conferring with a teacher or counselor, or volunteering time in the classroom or on campus. For calendar year 1996 each employee may use up to one day per year of personal necessity leave to volunteer in a school. At the end of calendar year 1996 a committee composed of management and labor will review the use of leave time to volunteer in schools. The committee will review whether such time off was used by parents and guardians or employees without children, whether the use of such leave created service delivery problems at the County Office, the cost of such leave use, and other relevant factors to determine if such use of personal necessity leave will be continued after 1996. In addition to this one day of personal necessity leave each employee may use accrued vacation time or compensatory time to volunteer in a school. The following restrictions apply to all approved paid and unpaid leave time used to volunteer in school: a. The employee must turn in to the Human Resources Department a specific plan for the volunteer activity which has been reviewed and approved by the school and then proof that he/she participated in the school activity; (use Absence Report Form) b. the employee is allowed a total of two (2) hours a week or eight (8) hours a month, and a total of forty (40) hours per year of approved paid or unpaid leave, only one day of which may be personal necessity leave;