Iowa Public Schools Labor Agreement: Union Recognition, Wages, Leave Policies (2018-2021), Slides of Law

Download Iowa Public Schools Labor Agreement: Union Recognition, Wages, Leave Policies (2018-2021) and more Slides Law in PDF only on Docsity! SAYDEL CONTRACT AGREEMENT BETWEEN SAYDEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL AND MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES LOCAL UNION NO. 2003 STATE OF IOWA I.U.P.A.T., AFL-CIO MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES LOCAL UNION 2003 STATE OF IOWA INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES, IUPAT, AFL-CIO 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 1 PREAMBLE This agreement entered into by and between Saydel Community School District and Public, Professional and Maintenance Employees Local Union 2003, State of Iowa International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, IUPAT, AFL-CIO represents the complete and final agreement on all bargainable issues. ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS A. The term “Employer” as used in this Agreement shall mean the Saydel Community School District. The term “Board” as used in this Agreement shall mean the Board of Directors of the Saydel Community School District or its duly authorized representatives or designees. B. The term “Employee” as used in this Agreement shall mean the employees included in the bargaining unit described below. C. The term “Union” as used in this Agreement shall mean the Public, Professional and Maintenance Employees Local Union 2003, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, IUPAT, AFL- CIO or its duly authorized representatives or designees. D. The term “Act” as used in this Agreement shall mean the Iowa Public Employment Relations Act, Chapter 20 of the Code of Iowa 1997, and any acts amendatory thereto. E. The term “regular full-time employee” as used in this agreement shall mean all employees who regularly work forty (40) hours a week or more for the District. F. (1) The term “regular part-time employee” as used in this agreement shall mean all employees who regularly work less than forty (40) hours a week for the District. (2) For all employees hired on or after July 1, 2011, the term “regular part-time employee” as used in this Agreement shall mean all employees who regularly work thirty (30) hours or more per week, during the regular school term, but less than forty (40) hours per week for the District. The change from 32 hours to 30 hours is due to compliance with the Affordable Care Act. G. The term “Superintendent” as used in this agreement shall mean the Superintendent or the Superintendent’s designee. ARTICLE II RECOGNITION The Employer hereby recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining representative for, and limited to, the appropriate bargaining unit as determined and ordered by the Iowa Public Employment Relations Board in Certification Instrument (Case Number 849) issued by the PERB on the first day of December, 1976, and Case Number 966 issued by the PERB on the 28th day of April, 1997, and any amendments thereto. The unit described in the above certification is as follows: INCLUDED: All regularly employed bus drivers, custodians, maintenance personnel, mechanics, food service personnel, cooks, assistant cooks, dishwashers, cafeteria aides, laundry service personnel, parking lot attendants, teacher aides, attendance clerks, and Middle School/High School bookkeepers. 4 ARTICLE IX HEALTH AND SAFETY A. The Employees must report any injuries due to work or incurred while working, to the Business Manager or in his/her absence to the Superintendent’s office within twenty-four (24) hours of the time the injury is sustained. B. The Employer may require any employee to receive a physical examination, when in its judgment such an examination is relevant to an Employee’s performance or status. The examining physician shall be selected by the Employer and the Employer shall pay the cost of such examination. C. Tobacco use and/or tobacco possession is strictly prohibited on all school grounds, in school equipment, as well as at all events. ARTICLE X EMPLOYEE TRAINING & WORK BREAKS A. The Employer shall schedule in-service meetings, as the Employer deems necessary. B. FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES. 1. WORKDAY. The normal workday shall consist of eight (8) hours of work. One-half (1/2) hour as close to the middle of the shift as possible should be observed as a paid lunch period. 2. WORK WEEK. The normal work week shall be forty (40) hours per week. 3. REST PERIODS. Employees shall be granted a fifteen (15) minute rest period during the first four hours of the shift and a fifteen (15) minute rest period during the second four hours of the shift. The rest periods shall be scheduled as near the middle of the shift as possible. C. PART-TIME EMPLOYEES. 1. WORKDAY. The normal workday shall be assigned by the Employer. 2. WORK WEEK. The normal work week shall be assigned by the Employer. 3. Any employee working more than five (5) consecutive hours will receive a paid thirty (30) minute lunch break. 4. Any employee working four (4) consecutive hours, but who does not qualify for a paid lunch, shall be granted a fifteen (15) minute rest period. The rest period shall be scheduled as near the middle of the scheduled shift as possible. ARTICLE XI WAGES AND SALARIES A. Employees shall be paid at the rate specified for their job classification of Exhibit “A” attached to this Agreement. B. Pay period. Payment shall be made the 20th day of each calendar month. When the 20th day falls on or during a school holiday, vacation or weekend, or a day when school is not in session employees shall receive their paychecks on the last working day prior to the twentieth. 5 Employees, except cooks, may be paid on a 12-month basis (12 equal installments) or paid for actual time worked each month (cooks are always paid monthly, actual time). Those employees electing to be paid in 12 equal installments on a monthly basis must notify the District’s business office on or before June 1, if they are 12 month employees and all other employees must notify on or before July 1. Any employee who fails to provide timely notice will be paid for actual time worked each month of the year. New employees shall be paid each month for actual time worked. Employees who change from twelve (12) months to ten (10) months shall remain at ten (10) months thereafter. C. Employees who are transferred to a higher job classification for twenty (20) or more working days shall be paid at a higher rate after completion of the twentieth day, retroactive to the first working day in the higher classification. D. Longevity. All regular employees will receive eleven cents ($0.11) per hour, in addition to the hourly wage rate, after each five (5) years of continuous employment with the District. E. Overtime shall be paid for at the rate of time and one-half (1 ½) the Employee’s straight time hourly rate for work performed in excess of regular scheduled forty (40) hours in any given work week. F. Work performed on Sunday will be paid for at time and one-half (1 ½) the Employee’s straight time hourly rate. ARTICLE XII LEAVE OF ABSENCE New employees shall not be entitled to any paid leaves of absence in the first ninety (90) calendar days of employment. A. Sick Leave. Employees are granted leave of absence for personal illness or injury, with full pay, in the following amounts: 1. The first year of employment 10 days 2. The second year of employment 11 days 3. The third year of employment 12 days 4. The fourth year of employment 13 days 5. The fifth year of employment 14 days 6. The sixth year of employment 15 days The above amounts shall apply only to consecutive years of employment in the Saydel Community School District. All regular full-time and regular part-time employees shall have their unused portions cumulated to a maximum of one hundred thirty-five (135) days. Sick leave is earned and used in hourly increments, according to the hours assigned to the employee. If a part-time employee goes to full-time status, the number of sick leave days available to the employee will be pro-rated according to the percentage of a full-time day that the employee worked while accumulating the leave. The employer may require such reasonable evidence as it may desire confirming the medical necessity for such a leave of absence but this will not be required for a sick leave of three (3) days or less unless the employer suspects abuse. A physician chosen by and paid for by the employer may review the employee’s medical evidence. An employee must exhaust accumulated sick leave before being eligible for disability insurance 6 benefits. Three (3) days per year of accumulated sick leave may be used for illness or injury of the employee’s spouse or minor child. B. Bereavement Leave. 1. IMMEDIATE FAMILY. Employees shall be allowed a total of five (5) days per occurrence for death in the member’s immediate family as hereinafter defined. Immediate family bereavement leave shall be granted in case of death of the spouse, child, father, mother, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother, sister or grandchild of said Employee. Employees shall be allowed a total of three (3) days per occurrence for death of a son-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, or grandparent. 2. EXTENDED FAMILY AND FRIENDS. Employees shall be allowed a total of two (2) days per year leave, not cumulative, for the death of the employee’s extended family and friends. C. Emergency Leave. Employees shall be allowed a total of three (3) days per year leave, not cumulative, for emergencies as hereinafter defined. An emergency is an unexpected occurrence, unusual and infrequent in occurrence, which requires the employee’s absence from work. D. Personal Days. 1. Two (2) days per year may be allowed to conduct personal business. 2. Except in the case of an emergency situation, application shall be made in writing at least five (5) school days prior to the requested leave date and must be submitted to the office of the Superintendent for approval. Should an emergency situation occur where it would not be possible to make application for prior approval, the necessity of securing prior approval shall be waived. However, the affected employee shall be expected to notify his/her principal, or the principal’s designee, of such an emergency. It is understood that when the situation occurs, the employee shall be required to make formal application for approval upon the day of return from such leave. 3. The day immediately preceding or immediately following a legal holiday or school recess or the first or last week of school shall not be recognized as a personal leave day. 4. Those employees whose religious affiliation requires that the employee observe and attend recognized holidays within said religion may use personal leave days for that purpose and said employee shall not have the cost of the substitute deducted. ARTICLE XIII VACATIONS A. Eligibility. All regular full-time twelve (12) month Employees will be given vacations as provided herein. Such Employees shall be granted an annual paid vacation on their anniversary date of full-time employment. B. Pay. Employees entitled to a paid vacation will be paid on the basis of their regular straight time rate for forty (40) hours for each week. 9 ARTICLE XVI FINALITY AND EFFECT OF AGREEMENT A. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties, and concludes collective bargaining from July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2021. B. Past practice shall not constitute part of this Agreement and any subsequent or supplementary agreement must be reduced to writing and executed by both parties to be effective. C. The parties acknowledge that during the negotiations which resulted in this Agreement, each had the unlimited right and opportunity to make demands and proposals with respect to any subject as provided in Section 9 of the Iowa Public Employment Relations Act designed under said section as negotiable for collective bargaining purposes, and that the understandings and agreements arrived at by the parties after the exercise of that right and opportunity are set forth in this Agreement. Therefore, the Employer and the Union, for the life of this Agreement, each voluntarily and unqualifiedly waives any right which might otherwise exist under law to negotiate over any matter during the term of this Agreement, and each agrees that the other shall not be obligated to bargain collectively with respect to any subject or matter not specifically referred to or covered in this Agreement, even though such subject or matter may not have been within the knowledge or contemplation of either or both of the parties at the time they negotiated or signed this Agreement. By mutual agreement, this Agreement may be amended or modified and such amendments or modifications shall become part of this agreement when signed and ratified by both parties. Date: Date: By: Douglas Wheeler By: Mark Hubbard Chief Negotiator for the School District Chief Negotiator for the Union 10 SCHEDULE A JOB CLASSIFICATION AND STRAIGHT TIME – HOURLY WAGE RATE Job Classification Base Rate Base Rate Base Rate 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21* Custodian (Full-Time) $17.18 $17.48 $17.78 Custodian (Part-Time) $15.85 $16.15 $16.45 Warehouse Custodian $17.58 $17.88 $18.18 Special Projects/Seasonal Help $10.00 $10.00 $10.00 Kitchen Manager $16.94 $17.24 $17.54 Cooks $14.94 $15.24 $15.54 Kitchen Aides $14.48 $14.78 $15.08 Cashier $14.43 $14.73 $15.03 Teacher Assistant-Special Education $14.63 $14.93 $15.23 Teacher Assistant-Specific Programs $14.63 $14.93 $15.23 Teacher Assistant-General Duties/Supervision $14.18 $14.48 $14.78 * In fiscal year 2020-21, if Supplemental State Aid is 2.5% or greater, the base rates will increase an additional $.05 per hour. Teacher Assistant Certification: Any employee working in a position that requires certification beyond the Paraeducator-Generalist 1 Certification, as deemed necessary by the Superintendent, will receive an additional ten cent ($0.10) per hour per certification (not to exceed three certifications). These additional trainings (which may include, but not limited to Generalist 2, Applied Behavioral Analyst, Functional Communication Training, 5-day Autism Training, PAES Training, etc), may or may not be paid by the District based on current student needs. Once approved for the additional differential pay that employee shall receive the differential pay for the remainder of the school year. The assignment of differential pay will be evaluated annually.