Professional Development/Leadership Days

Improving your skills and committee work can now be paid time.

1. The Professional Development/Leadership Days have hours equivalent to six (6) workdays. The funding is to provide extra time for classified staff for the purpose of participating in school/program decision-making, building leadership activities, and/or training to enhance standards implementation. These are not the Waiver/Professional Development Days.
2. Each classified employee represented by the Association shall be allocated the number of hours equivalent to 6 workdays for professional development/leadership activities. A day is defined as the number of hours in an employees regular workday.
3. The paid activity (or activities) shall be by mutual agreement between the employee and his or her supervisor. The employee is to document and claim such time with Extra Time Reporting Forms using the appropriate budget code.
4. Extra Time Reporting Forms used for this purpose must be received in Payroll no later than June 30, 2006. If the form is not submitted by the deadline the employee will not be paid for this extra time. It is the employee's responsibility to be sure the extra time forms are received by Payroll by their deadline. Forms may be dated retroactively to July 1, 2005.
5. Time served for these activities must be within the 40 hour work week regardless of whether you are a 7-hour or an 8-hour employee. Payment is at the employee's regular hourly rate of pay.

So how does this work? Employees may not claim more than the number of hours equivalent to 6 workdays for reimbursement. Each employee will need to keep track of the hours they have used. So if you are an 8-hour employee, you have 48 hours and a 7-hour employee has 42 hours.

Examples of overtime scenarios are:

A. If you are a 7-hour employee, and you attend a 6-hour class on Saturday after a full week's work:

• You would have completed 35 work hours before the Saturday class.
• You have 5 hours of extra time at your regular hourly rate before you are into overtime (time-and-one-half).
• You would claim 5 hours at your regular rate of pay and the remaining 1 hour of the class would be overtime at time-and-a-half.
• Because the 1 hour is at time-and-one-half, you would claim 1.5 hours of pay.
• You would have used 6.5 hours (5+1.5) of your 42 hours of Professional Leave/Leadership time.

B. If you are an 8-hour employee, and you attend a 3-hour meeting after school, after your regular workday:

• You would claim 4.5 hours because you are working overtime at time-and-a-half.
• You would have used 4.5 hours of your 48 hours.
• Any unspent funds shall be recaptured by the District. There shall be no carryover of these funds in a school or program budget. Use it or lose it !!!
• Disputes regarding these days shall be subject to the grievance procedure.

If you receive a stipend for attending a class, or if the class falls on a Waiver/Professional Development Day, you cannot claim additional compensation using these funds. It is double dipping.