firefly_ris
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- Nov 25, 2015
Zero... independent contractor.
Then that was negotiated in your contract by your union. Teachers in the district I live in get a 1 hour prep period 4 days a week, and 4 hours on Thursdays which are half days for students.Can you please explain what you mean by this? As a teacher, my contract day is 7:45 am to 4:15. Students are in our classes from 8:05-4:05 this year. Are you saying that if I can teach my 7 classes in 6 hours I can leave early? If so, I need to figure out how I can teach my 6x57 min periods and 1x30 min advisory period in only 6 hours!
To answer the OPs question, we get up to 9-15 cumulative days per year, depending on how long you've been in the district. We can use them for any reason but there are restrictions on when we can use them. We can't take the day before or after a holiday break or we get docked $500-$650 plus lose the day. Our principal has decided that he will write people up if they use more than 2 days this year. (I've already used 2.5 and when he tried to write me up I laughed at him and refused to sign the paper. I'm not his favorite teacher right now as I'm fighting him on this.)
Yes, there can be times they have to be there clearly, because if your class is in session, you need to be there. I'm talking about the prep and grading portions.I agree with part of your theory because certainly many salaried people work long hours to accomplish their tasks, but as mentioned above teachers (and probably many other salaried workers too) have minimum hours they are expected to be there and ALSO minimum tasks they are expected to get done. I only addressed paid days off, because teachers are paid for days in which attendance is expected. We sign a contract that is very specific about days and hours where attendance is required. I'm honestly confused by what your post has to do with paid time off. I've known many salaried workers who get vacation days as part of their package. Others get contracted only for what they do work, like teachers.
I have 28 days of PTO a year and we can carry up to 20 from one year to the next.
However, as of January 1st, I will have unlimited PTO. Holiday and Bereavement will still be separate banks of hours.
For our company, there really aren't any parameters. However, most people take less than what they had before.I've never heard of this arrangement before, barring another pp up-thread that mentioned it. How does it work, functionally? What happens to "those" people that take too much time off? How would you even judge that? On the face of it, it sounds amazing - don't feel like working today? Don't go to work. But I'm sure it must be more complicated than that.
Yes, there can be times they have to be there clearly, because if your class is in session, you need to be there. I'm talking about the prep and grading portions.
For our company, there really aren't any parameters. However, most people take less than what they had before.
No time sheets and no scheduling of vacations. You can't just leave the office empty, but on mgt, you just assign one of your team to be your acting director/manager, etc.
You can wake up and decide you need a day off, however, as statedcabove, if you abuse this, you won't get your work done, and then that creates a performance issue that can be addressed.
Many of the relatively new think tanks have moved to the unlimited pto model. It is becoming more popular in the tech world.
I was a substitute teacher so all the time off I obviously had was not paid for. On long term jobs if I worked 30 days I'd get a "sick" day.