School board approves support staff handbook
The Weyauwega-Fremont School District now has a handbook for its support staff employees.
The school board approved the handbook for the W-F Educational Support Personnel when it met on Sept. 26. Board member Tony Beyer abstained.
This group is the one group of employees in the W-F district that did not complete negotiations with the school board before the state budget repair law went into effect on June 28.
As a result, the board had to develop an employee handbook for the support staff.
District Administrator Scott Bleck told the board, at its Sept. 26 meeting, that the biggest changes are in the grievance procedure portion of the handbook.
Workplace safety, discipline and termination all had to be defined.
In addition, the grievance procedure includes a referal to an Impartial Hearing Officer (IHO). Bleck will have to designate the IHO, and the school district will have to pay any costs incurred by the IHO.
The IHO will have the authority to administer oaths, issue subpoenas and decide it a transcript is necessary.
If a grievance is not resolved through the IHO, the written grievance may be submitted to the board clerk, requesting an appeal hearing at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the board or at a date that does not exceed 60 days from the receipt of the grievance by the board clerk.
The board must then issue a final written decision that will be binding and must do so within 20 days of when the board hearing closed.
The handbook also includes a change as to when employees who do not work year round are paid.
There are now 20 pay periods for those employees instead of 24, beginning the first pay period in September and ending with the final pay period in June.
Direct deposits for compensation will be made on or about the 5th and 20th of each month. When a payment date falls on a national banking holiday, deposits will be made on the date immediately preceding that holiday.
The board learned at its Sept. 26 meeting that the change in pay periods for those who do not work year around affected some employees.
Those employees learned of the change in an Aug. 22 letter, two weeks before they were expecting a paycheck.
The board was told that some employees thus had to borrow money from family members to make mortgage payments.
Bleck said the people affected by this change are now being paid after they complete their work.
In checking with area school districts, he learned it is not uncommon for those who work only during the school year to be paid just during that time.
The school board approved the handbook for the W-F Educational Support Personnel when it met on Sept. 26. Board member Tony Beyer abstained.
This group is the one group of employees in the W-F district that did not complete negotiations with the school board before the state budget repair law went into effect on June 28.
As a result, the board had to develop an employee handbook for the support staff.
District Administrator Scott Bleck told the board, at its Sept. 26 meeting, that the biggest changes are in the grievance procedure portion of the handbook.
Workplace safety, discipline and termination all had to be defined.
In addition, the grievance procedure includes a referal to an Impartial Hearing Officer (IHO). Bleck will have to designate the IHO, and the school district will have to pay any costs incurred by the IHO.
The IHO will have the authority to administer oaths, issue subpoenas and decide it a transcript is necessary.
If a grievance is not resolved through the IHO, the written grievance may be submitted to the board clerk, requesting an appeal hearing at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the board or at a date that does not exceed 60 days from the receipt of the grievance by the board clerk.
The board must then issue a final written decision that will be binding and must do so within 20 days of when the board hearing closed.
The handbook also includes a change as to when employees who do not work year round are paid.
There are now 20 pay periods for those employees instead of 24, beginning the first pay period in September and ending with the final pay period in June.
Direct deposits for compensation will be made on or about the 5th and 20th of each month. When a payment date falls on a national banking holiday, deposits will be made on the date immediately preceding that holiday.
The board learned at its Sept. 26 meeting that the change in pay periods for those who do not work year around affected some employees.
Those employees learned of the change in an Aug. 22 letter, two weeks before they were expecting a paycheck.
The board was told that some employees thus had to borrow money from family members to make mortgage payments.
Bleck said the people affected by this change are now being paid after they complete their work.
In checking with area school districts, he learned it is not uncommon for those who work only during the school year to be paid just during that time.
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