Counseling Welfare Note
Another offering in a series of "Welfare Notes" that has been created by the Welfare Committee which are intended to ensure that all members of the Faculty Association are educated, informed, or updated in terms of welfare-related concerns and their rights contained within the Contractual Agreement.
Critical Coverage Dates and Counseling Faculty Summer Assignment (11/15/08)
A Counseling faculty member's request for a Summer indicating the percent of full-load assignment desired is due January 7. (See Section F 6, SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS, in our Contractual Agreement.) As you begin to consider the specific work dates of your summer assignment request, you should be aware of new language appearing in the Contractual Agreement. (See Section F 6.4, CRITICAL COVERAGE DATES WORKED BY COUNSELING FACULTY, in our Contractual Agreement.)
The Administration was interested in increasing the number of full-time counseling faculty who would be available to work anticipated high demand, "critical coverage dates," that would be identified which as occur sometime between the end of the Spring Semester and the beginning of the Fall Semester. An incentive to encourage your request to work some or all of these dates was negotiated.
Here is how it will work:
- Prior to calling for your dates-specific summer assignment request, the appropriate administrator for Counseling faculty will determine the specific dates to be identified as critical coverage dates. Those dates will be announced Counseling faculty in advance of the deadline for the dates-specific summer assignment request.
- If you request to work any of the identified critical coverage dates, you can request to be paid for your work on those dates (as in the past) or you can request to accumulate "compensatory (comp) days" for those dates worked. At the time your summer assignment is submitted, you may request the dates when your comp days are to be used or you may identify those dates at a later date.
- The administrator will determine if the request of comp time will be granted. In the event that the administrator does not agree to compensate the faculty member in the manner requested, the faculty member may withdraw the request or choose to accept the manner of compensation agreed to by the administrator.
- Any comp days accumulated must be used before vacation time that has been accumulated. Also, any comp days earned for critical coverage dates worked must be used during the academic year following the summer in which they were earned.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact any member of the Welfare Committee.
Welfare Committee Members
Brenda Alberico , Welfare Chair (x 3035)
Marty Attiyeh, Grievance Chair (x 2065)
Nancy Conradt (x 3045)
Mike Drafke (x 2075)
Carolyn Dockus (x 2420)
Christine Kickels (x 2313)
Lew Jones (x 2039)
John Kovach (x 2544)
Christine Monnier (x 2438)
Tom Tallman (x 2369)
Tom Tipton (x 2570)
Ben Whisenhunt (x 3144)
