MASTER LABOR AGREEMENT

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1 MASTER LABOR AGREEMENT BETWEEN FEDERAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION STATESIDE REGION (FEA-SR) AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DOMESTIC DEPENDENT ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS (DDESS)

2 FEA-SR/DDESS MASTER LABOR AGREEMENT INDEX ARTICLE SUBJECT PAGE 1 PREAMBLE 1 2 MISSION STATEMENT 2 3 RECOGNITION 3 4 CONDITIONS OF THE AGREEMENT 4 5 AGENCY RIGHTS 5 6 ASSOCIATION RIGHTS 6 7 BARGAINING RIGHTS AND REQUIREMENTS 15 8 EMPLOYEE RIGHTS 18 9 GENERAL ADMINISTRATION PROCEDURES ASSOCIATION AND DDESS COOPERATION HEALTH AND SAFETY STUDENT DISCIPLINE PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES PROFESSIONAL MATTERS PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SYSTEM DUES ALLOTMENTS ORIENTATION AND CERTIFICATION HOURS OF WORK AND SCHEDULING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PAY AND BENEFITS LEAVE REASSIGNMENTS, VACANCIES, AND TRANSFERS REDUCTION IN FORCE BASE CLOSURES DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE ARBITRATION DEVELOPMENT OF NEW/SPECIAL PROGRAMS DURATION 72 APPENDIX A FLRA CERTIFICATION, CASE NO. WA-RP APPENDIX B DDESS OFFICIAL TIME REQUEST/REPORT APPENDIX C FEA-SR REQUEST FOR INFORMATION APPENDIX D SALARY WORKSHEET APPENDIX E EXPERIENCE CREDIT MATRIX APPENDIX F SALARY SCHEDULES APPENDIX G EXTRACURRICULAR DUTY ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT i

3 FEA-SR/DDESS MASTER LABOR AGREEMENT INDEX APPENDIX H DDESS EXTRACURRICULAR DUTY ASSIGNMENT COMPENSATION SCHEDULE APPENDIX I EMERGENCY LEAVE BANK APPENDIX J EMERGENCY LEAVE BANK REQUEST FORM APPENDIX K DDESS EDUCATIONAL LEAVE PROGRAM FACT SHEETS AND APPLICATION AGREEMENT FORM APPENDIX L FMCS FORM NO. R-43 APPENDIX M DEFINITIONS ii

4 FEA-SR/DDESS MASTER LABOR AGREEMENT SECTION INDEX ARTICLE SUBJECT/Setion PAGE 1 PREAMBLE 1 Setion 1 Prties 1 Setion 2 Intent nd Purpose. 1 Setion 3 Puli Poliy. 1 2 MISSION STATEMENT 2 3 RECOGNITION 3 4 CONDITIONS OF THE AGREEMENT 4 Setion 1 Lws, Regultions, Poliies, nd Prior Agreements. 4 Setion 2 Distriution of Agreement. 4 5 AGENCY RIGHTS 5 6 ASSOCIATION RIGHTS 6 Setion 1 Exlusive Representtive. 6 Setion 2 Weingrten Rights. 6 Setion 3 Forml Disussion Rights. 6 Setion 4 Announement of Assoition Offiers. 6 Setion 5 Announements t Fulty Meetings nd Orienttions. 6 Setion 6 Notifition of Ageny Responsiilities. 7 Setion 7 Assoition Aess to DoD, Deprtment of Defense Edution Ativity (DoDEA), nd DDESS Issunes. 7 Setion 8 Representtion on Committees. 7 Setion 9 Relese of Assoition Are Diretor. 8 Setion 10 Relese Time for Lol Presidents. 9 Setion 11 Offiil Time. 10 Setion 12 Offie Spe nd Equipment. 12 Setion 13 Use of Filities nd Equipment. 12 Setion 14. Shool Bord Meetings. 13 Setion 15. FEA At-Lrge Offiers BARGAINING RIGHTS AND REQUIREMENTS 15 Setion 1. Impt nd Implementtion Brgining. 15 Setion 2 Mid-Term Brgining. 17 Setion 3 Brgining Levels EMPLOYEE RIGHTS 18 Setion 1 Sttutory Rights. 18 Setion 2 Right to Representtion. 18 Setion 3 Offiil Personnel Files. 18 Setion 4 Py Reords. 19 Setion 5 Investigtions. 19 Setion 6 Telephone Aess. 19 Setion 7 Resigntion nd Retirement. 20 Setion 8 Proessing Pperwork upon the Deth of n Employee. 20 Setion 9 Providing Position Desriptions. 20 Setion 10 Compenstion Informtion. 20 Setion 11 Prking. 21 Setion 12 Providing Storge Spe. 21 Setion 13 Providing Aess to Work nd Storge Ares. 21 Setion 14 Relotion of Equipment nd Furniture. 21 Setion 15 Stff Lounge. 21 Setion 16 Dress nd Apperne. 21 Setion 17 Grdes. 22 iii

5 FEA-SR/DDESS MASTER LABOR AGREEMENT SECTION INDEX 9 GENERAL ADMINISTRATION PROCEDURES 23 Setion 1 Assignment Due to Temporry Illness or Injury. 23 Setion 2 Voie nd Tpe Reordings. 23 Setion 3 Protionry Employees. 23 Setion 4 Unfir Lor Prties. 23 Setion 5 Soliittion Ativities. 24 Setion 6 Sign-in / Sign-out ASSOCIATION AND DDESS COOPERATION 25 Setion 1 Providing Informtion. 25 Setion 2 Prtnership Committee (PC). 25 Setion 3 Communition HEALTH AND SAFETY 26 Setion 1 Sfe nd Helthy Working Conditions. 26 Setion 2 Inspetions. 26 Setion 3 Sfety Equipment nd Apprel. 26 Setion 4 Federl Employees Compenstion At / Workers Compenstion. 27 Setion 5 Threts Aginst the Sfety of the Shool. 27 Setion 6 Emergeny Proedures. 27 Setion 7 Assistne with Reument of Lost or Dmged Property. 27 Setion 8 Assistne If n Employee is Assulted. 28 Setion 9 Employee Assistne Progrm. 28 Setion 10 Communition Devies in Clssrooms. 28 Setion 11 Heptitis Vintion nd Flu Shots STUDENT DISCIPLINE 29 Setion 1 Student Disipline. 29 Setion 2 Student Disipline Poliy PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES 30 Setion 1 Poliy. 30 Setion 2 Trining. 30 Setion 3 Eligiility, Servies, nd Plement. 30 Setion 4 Ageny Considertion of Brgining Unit Memer Request for Plement of Students with Disilities. 30 Setion 5 Teher Input. 30 Setion 6 Pupil Teher Rtio (Clss Size). 30 Setion 7 Request for Assistne PROFESSIONAL MATTERS 32 Setion 1 Ademi Freedom. 32 Setion 2 Individully Developed Mterils PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SYSTEM 33 Setion 1 Ojetive. 33 Setion 2 Applition. 33 Setion 3 Performne Apprisl Pln. 33 iv

6 FEA-SR/DDESS MASTER LABOR AGREEMENT SECTION INDEX Setion 4 Forml Oservtion Shedule. 33 Setion 5 Apprisl. Setion 6 Assistne Setion 7 Notie. 34 Setion 8 Removl Bsed on Uneptle Performne. Setion 9 Assoition Assistne DUES ALLOTMENTS 36 Setion 1 Authority. Setion 2 Pyroll Dedution. Setion 3 Assoition Responsiilities. Setion 4 Ageny Responsiilities. Setion 5 Revotion of Dues-Withholding. Setion 6 Termintion of Dues-Withholding Allotment. Setion 7 Indemnifition ORIENTATION AND CERTIFICATION 39 Setion 1 Orienttion. 39 Setion 2 Certifition nd Reertifition. 39 Setion 3 DDESS Uniform Certifition HOURS OF WORK AND SCHEDULING 40 Setion 1 Workdy. Setion 2 Personl Plnning nd Preprtion. Setion 3 Work Yer. Setion 4 Clss Size. 41 Setion 5 Shool Clendrs. 41 Setion 6 In-Servie Progrms nd Stff Development PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 42 Setion 1 Trining. 42 Setion 2 Conferene Attendne. 42 Setion 3 Trvel PAY AND BENEFITS 43 Setion 1 Slry. Setion 2 Py Yer. Setion 3 Py Setting. Setion 4 Proedures. Setion 5 Compenstory Time. Setion 6 Extrurriulr Duty Assignments/Py. Setion 7 Method of Pyment. Setion 8 Summer Shool Py LEAVE 47 Setion 1 Generl Provisions. 47 Setion 2 Sik Leve. 47 Setion 3 Personl Leve. 48 Setion 4 Exused Leve. 49 Setion 5 Leve Without Py. 49 v

7 FEA-SR/DDESS MASTER LABOR AGREEMENT SECTION INDEX Setion 6 Fmily nd Medil Leve. 50 Setion 7 Militry Leve. 50 Setion 8 Voluntry Leve Trnsfer Progrm. 50 Setion 9 Emergeny Leve Bnk. 50 Setion 10 Edutionl Leve. 51 Setion 11 Jury Duty. 52 Setion 12 Prt-Time Employees REASSIGNMENTS, VACANCIES, AND TRANSFERS 53 Setion 1 Posting Noties. 53 Setion 2 Ressignment. 53 Setion 3 Shool Moves. 54 Setion 4 Seletion for Summer Shool REDUCTION IN FORCE 56 Setion 1 Definition. 56 Setion 2 Exlusions. 56 Setion 3 Notifition to Assoition. 56 Setion 4 Notifition to Brgining Unit Memers. 56 Setion 5 Competitive Are. 57 Setion 6 Competitive Levels. 57 Setion 7 Retention Register / Retention Priority. 57 Setion 8 Plement Considertions. 58 Setion 9 Plement Assistne. 58 Setion 10 Slry Retention Provisions. 58 Setion 11 Severne Py. 58 Setion 12 Assistne to Employees. 58 Setion 13 Review of Reords BASE CLOSURES DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS 61 Setion 1 Poliy. 61 Setion 2 Informl Disiplinry Ations. 61 Setion 3 Forml Disiplinry Ations. 61 Setion 4 Rights of Protioner 63 Setion 5 Duty Sttus. 63 Setion 6 Reltionship to DDESS Instrution GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE 64 Setion 1 Purpose. 64 Setion 2 Coverge. 64 Setion 3 Representtion. 64 Setion 4 Proedures. 65 Setion 5 Ageny/Assoition Grievnes. 65 Setion 6 Alterntive Dispute Resolution. 66 Setion 7 Generl Provisions ARBITRATION 68 Setion 1 Invoking Aritrtion. 68 Setion 2 Seleting n Aritrtor. 68 Setion 3 Issue. 68 vi

8 FEA-SR/DDESS MASTER LABOR AGREEMENT SECTION INDEX Setion 4 Aritrtion Expense. 69 Setion 5 Witnesses. 69 Setion 6 Deision. 69 Setion 7 Exeptions. 69 Setion 8 Aritrtor s Authority. 70 Setion 9 Attorney s Fees DEVELOPMENT OF NEW/SPECIAL PROGRAMS DURATION 72 Setion 1 Effetive Dte. 72 Setion 2 Renewl. 72 vii

9 Setion 1 Prties. ARTICLE 1. PREAMBLE Pursunt to the provisions set forth in Title 5, United Sttes Code, Chpter 71, hereinfter referred to s the Civil Servie Reform At, the following Agreement is entered into etween the Deprtment of Defense (DOD) Domesti Dependent Elementry nd Seondry Shools (DDESS), hereinfter referred to s the Employer, Ageny, Mngement, or DDESS, nd the Federl Edution Assoition, Stteside Region, hereinfter referred to s the Assoition, Exlusive Representtive, or FEA-SR, nd olletively hereinfter referred to s the Prties. Setion 2 Intent nd Purpose. The intent nd purpose of this Agreement is to omply with 5 U.S.C. 7101, et seq., nd to enourge nd inrese effetive nd hrmonious work reltionships etween these two Prties. The Prties jointly ffirm nd delre tht it is their mutul gol to provide qulity edution for the hildren of the Deprtment of Defense Domesti Dependent Elementry nd Seondry Shools nd to mintin high stndrds of personl performne. The Prties hereto gree tht this n est e omplished through mile disussion, mutul onsidertion of mtters of interest to either prty, the exhnge of dt nd informtion pursunt to sttutory requirements, the estlishment of si understndings reltive to personnel poliies nd prties, nd ny other mtters ffeting other onditions of employment. Setion 3 Puli Poliy. Wheres the Congress finds tht experiene in oth privte nd puli employment indites tht the sttutory protetion of the right of employees to orgnize, rgin olletively, nd prtiipte through lor orgniztions of their hoosing in deisions whih ffet them, sfegurds the puli usiness, ontriutes to the effetive ondut of puli usiness, nd filittes nd enourges the mile settlements of disputes etween employees nd their employers involving onditions of employment. Wheres the Congress finds tht the puli interest demnds the highest stndrds of employee performne nd the ontinued development nd implementtion of modern nd progressive work prties to filitte nd improve employee performne nd the effiient omplishment of the opertions of the Government.. Therefore, lor orgniztions nd olletive rgining in the ivil servie re in the puli interest. d. The Ageny nd the Assoition reognize tht professionl edutor s responsiility is to serve the edutionl needs of the student; nd the employee s energies should, to the extent possile, e utilized to this end. 1

10 ARTICLE 2. MISSION STATEMENT It is understood y nd greed etween the Prties tht the primry mission of DDESS is to provide to its students the highest qulity of edution possile within its resoures. 2

11 Reognition of Exlusive Representtive. ARTICLE 3. RECOGNITION The Ageny herey reognizes the Assoition s the exlusive rgining gent nd representtive of ll employees in the unit identified y FLRA Cse Numer WA-RP-90087, Certifition of Consolidtion of Units, dted April 11, 2000, nd ny other FEA-SR professionl unit ertified y FLRA susequent to the dte of this Agreement. The rgining unit memers of DDESS overed y this Agreement re loted t the following lol DDESS shool distrits: Cmp Lejeune, North Crolin Dhlgren Fort Benning, Georgi Fort Brgg, North Crolin Fort Cmpell, Kentuky Fort Jkson, South Crolin Fort Knox, Kentuky Fort Ruker, Alm Fort Stewrt, Georgi Gum (Andersen Air Fore Bse nd Nvl Instlltion) Lurel By, South Crolin Mxwell Air Fore Bse, Alm Quntio, Virgini Roins Air Fore Bse, Georgi West Point, New York Any suessor unit ertifite issued y the FLRA will utomtilly mend the unit desription ontined in () nd () ove. The Prties will, however, engge in rgining on the following issues for ny new DDESS shool(s) nd/or distrit(s) whih my e dded to the unit: py nd offiil time. d The representtion ertifite identified in setion 1.. of this Artile is tthed t Appendix A. 3

12 ARTICLE 4. CONDITIONS OF THE AGREEMENT Setion 1 Lws, Regultions, Poliies, nd Prior Agreements. It is understood nd greed y the Prties tht in the dministrtion of ll mtters overed y this Agreement, exept s otherwise speifilly provided for within this Agreement, the Ageny, the Assoition, nd the Ageny s employees re governed y pplile lws nd regultions. The Prties lso gree tht ll prior greements, memorndums of understnding, letters of lrifition, grievne resolution, nd third prty deisions whih ruled on interprettion of ontrt provisions, exeuted etween 5 July 1999 nd the effetive dte of this greement, remin in full fore nd effet throughout the life of the Mster Lor Agreement unless superseded y this Memorndum of Agreement. This lnguge is not intended to e red s extinguishing other greement(s), letter(s), grievne resolution(s), or the like tht re not superseded y the Agreement. To the extent onflit rises etween ny lnguge of the Mster Lor Agreement nd ny lnguge of prior doument s desried ove, the lnguge of the Mster Lor Agreement will previl. Setion 2 Distriution of Agreement. Further, the Prties gree tht the Ageny will re-print the Mster Lor Agreement with ll mendments, hnges, nd modified provisions. The Ageny will distriute the reprinted Mster Lor Agreement in pper or ompt disk form to rgining unit memers nd provide the FEA- SR Are Diretor fifty (50) pper opies of the reprinted Mster Lor Agreement. The Ageny lso grees tht it will post the reprinted Agreement on n pproprite DDESS wesite. Upon reprinting nd distriution of the Mster Lor Agreement, the previous version will e resinded; however, the resinded version will e pplied in djudition of ny grievne or third prty proeeding, regrding ny dispute over provisions of the previous version, whih hs een initited through the negotited grievne proedure prior to the effetive dte of this greement. Whenever n ddendum to this Agreement is dopted y the Prties, opy of the ddendum will e provided to eh rgining unit memer s soon s possile fter rehing the Agreement. The ddendum will then e dded to the Agreement, nd eh opy provided therefter will inlude opy of the ddendum. 4

13 ARTICLE 5. AGENCY RIGHTS Sttutory Rights. The Prties expressly gree tht the Ageny retins the right to determine the mission, udget, orgniztion, numer of employees, nd internl seurity prties of the Ageny; In ordne with pplile lws: Hire, ssign, diret, lyoff, nd retin employees, or to suspend, remove, or redue in grde or py, or tke other disiplinry tions ginst employees; Assign work, to mke determintions with respet to ontrting out, nd to determine the personnel y whih Ageny opertions shll e onduted; With respet to filling positions to mke seletions for ppointments from: 1) mong properly rnked nd ertified ndidtes for promotion; or 2) ny other pproprite soure. d Tke whtever tions my e neessry to rry out the Ageny s mission during emergenies. 5

14 Setion 1 Exlusive Representtive. ARTICLE 6. ASSOCIATION RIGHTS The Assoition is reognized s the exlusive representtive of the employees in the unit desried in Artile 3 nd is entitled to t for nd negotite olletive rgining greements overing ll employees in the unit. The Assoition shll represent the interests of ll employees in the unit pursunt to 5 U.S.C. 7114() (1). The Assoition retins ll rgining rights provided under Chpter 71 of Title 5. Setion 2 Weingrten Rights. The Assoition shll e given the opportunity to e present t ny exmintion of unit employee y representtive of the Ageny onerning n investigtion if: (1) The employee resonly elieves tht the exmintion my result in disiplinry tion ginst the employee; nd (2) The employee requests representtion. The Ageny shll inform unit employees of their Weingrten rights y posting written notie, on ulletin ords t eh shool nd y distriuting sid notie in either written or eletroni form, to eh individul unit employee during Septemer of eh shool yer. All new employees will reeive like notie t the time of hiring. Setion 3 Forml Disussion Rights. The Assoition shll e given the opportunity to e represented t ny forml disussion (whih my inlude, for exmple, ommittees, meetings, trining, nd/or groups) etween one or more representtive(s) of the Ageny nd one or more rgining unit memers or their representtive(s) onerning ny grievne, ny personnel poliy or prties, or other generl onditions of employment. Whenever possile, prior to the Ageny inititing ny forml disussion involving resolution of grievne(s) or disussions of personnel poliy, prties, or other generl onditions of employment, the Assoition shll e given twenty-four (24) hours dvne written notifition. The Prties understnd tht the Assoition shll inform the Ageny, efore ny meeting herein desried, of the identity of the Assoition representtive(s) who will ttend the meeting. Setion 4 Announement of Assoition Offiers. The Ageny shll reognize the Assoition s the exlusive representtive of its professionl rgining unit employees nd, during the new teher orienttion nd initil shool distrit nd shool uilding fulty meetings of eh new shool yer, shll nnoune the nmes of the eleted nd designted offiils of the Assoition. Setion 5 Announements t Fulty Meetings nd Orienttions. The Assoition will e fforded the opportunity to mke presenttion of not more thn ten (10) minutes during the initil shool distrit, nd shool uilding meeting, of eh new shool yer, regrdless of when the shool distrit meeting is held. The Assoition will e fforded the opportunity to mke nnounements t ny regulrly sheduled shool distrit nd shool fulty/stff meeting. 6

15 The Assoition will lso e fforded the opportunity to mke presenttion of t lest ten (10) minutes prior to the end of sheduled new employee forml orienttions. Setion 6 Notifition of Ageny Responsiilities. Eh lol DDESS shool distrit will, within twenty (20) work- dys of the eginning of eh shool yer, provide the lol Assoition President, eh Fulty Representtive Spokesperson or Building Representtive, nd the Assoition Are Diretor with opy of the shool distrit phone diretory nd the nme nd phone numer of the mngeril point of ontt for the following issues nd topis: Equl Employment Opportunity (EEO); employee py; lor employee reltions; employee enefits; leve; workers ompenstion; retirement; trining; hiring; position lssifition; offiil trvel; purhsing; supplies / equipment / tehnology; shool uilding seurity; sfety; uilding mintenne; nd property ountility. Within twenty (20) workdys of the eginning of eh shool yer, the Ageny will provide to the Assoition Are Diretor opy of the DDESS phone diretory. Setion 7 Assoition Aess to DoD, Deprtment of Defense Edution Ativity (DoDEA), nd DDESS Issunes. The Ageny shll provide to the Assoition Generl Counsel urrent opy of Unlssified DoD Issunes on CD-ROM whih ontins ll urrent DoD Diretives nd Instrutions. The Ageny shll provide to the Assoition Generl Counsel two opies of ll urrent DDESS Diretives, Instrutions, nd Poliy Letters whih pply to rgining unit memers, s well s ll urrent DoDEA Diretives, Instrutions, nd Poliy Letters whih pply to DDESS rgining unit memers. The Ageny lso grees to mintin opy of these Diretives, Instrutions, nd Poliy Letters to whih ll rgining unit memers (t eh lol shool distrit) will hve ess. Updted hnges will e provided s issued. The Ageny lso grees to mintin t eh lol shool distrit set of urrent Shool Poliies, s well s poliies issued y the Superintendent, shool prinipls, or ny other mngement offiil, whih pply to rgining unit memers. The ove will e ville for review to ll rgining unit memers. The Ageny lso grees to provide opy of ll shool poliies mentioned ove to the Assoition Generl Counsel. Setion 8 Representtion on Committees. DDESS Level Committees Appointed y the DDESS Diretor (1) The Assoition shll e entitled to selet its representtives(s) to e memer(s) of eh DDESS level ommittee tht is omposed of Ageny representtive(s) nd rgining unit memer(s) nd tht disusses personnel poliies, prties, nd/or terms nd onditions of employment. The Assoition will e entitled to representtive or n equl numer of representtives, ut not to exeed three, s Ageny memers on the ommittee, whihever is greter. Assoition representtives will e in pid duty sttus while working on ommittee tivities, when required y the Ageny, regrdless of the time of dy or time of the yer tht the ommittee works. The Assoition representtives will e pid t their erned hourly rte. Trvel 7

16 expenses, inluding per diem, will e pid in ordne with the Joint Trvel Regultions (JTR). (2) The Assoition shll lso e entitled to nominte ommittee memers who re to ome from the rgining unit. The rgining unit memers will e in pid duty sttus while working on ommittee tivities, when required y the Ageny, regrdless of the time of dy or time of yer tht the ommittee works. The rgining unit memers will e pid t their erned hourly rte. Trvel expenses, inluding per diem, will e pid in ordne with the JTR. Lol Shool Distrit nd Shool Building Level Committees (1) The Assoition shll e entitled to selet n Assoition representtive to e memer of eh lol shool distrit nd shool uilding level group or ommittee tht is omposed of Ageny representtive(s) nd rgining unit memer(s) nd tht disusses personnel poliies, prties, nd/or working onditions. The Assoition representtive will e in pid duty sttus while working on ommittee tivities, when suh tivities re required nd pproved y the Ageny, regrdless of the time of dy or time of yer tht the ommittee works. The Assoition representtive will e pid t his/her erned hourly rte. Trvel expenses, inluding per diem, will e pid in ordne with the JTR. (2) The Assoition shll lso e entitled to nominte ommittee memer(s) who re to ome from the rgining unit. Suh rgining unit memer(s) will e in pid duty sttus while working on ommittee tivities, when the tivities re required nd pproved y the Ageny, regrdless of the time of dy or time of the yer tht the ommittee works. Brgining unit memers will e pid t their erned hourly rte. Trvel expenses, inluding per diem, will e pid in ordne with the JTR. Setion 9 Relese of Assoition Are Diretor. The Assoition is entitled to the relese from duty of one rgining unit memer to t s Are Diretor. The rgining unit memer to t s Are Diretor will e determined y the Assoition. The following protool will govern the Are Diretor s employment: (1) While on relese, the Are Diretor will reeive his/her regulr rte of py for full-time (ten month) employment with DDESS. The Are Diretor will reeive his/her py over twenty-six py periods. (2) While on relese, the Are Diretor will reeive ll enefits of full-time employment with DDESS. These enefits inlude, ut re not limited to, retirement redit, helth enefits, svings plns, sik leve, nd personl leve. (3) When offiil trvel is required, s determined nd pproved y the DDESS Diretor, for the Are Diretor to meet with Ageny offiils, the Are Diretor will reeive government trvel orders. Trvel expenses will e pid in ordne with the JTR. Additionlly, the DDESS Diretor will nnully provide letter of introdution for the Are Diretor to use for trvel to DDESS shool distrits desried in Appendix A. The letter will request tht on- se field grde qurters e provided, if ville. (4) A rgining unit memer relesed from duty to serve s Are Diretor under this setion will e grnted return rights to their former or similr position. In the event tht Ageny offiils initite meeting during reess period with the Are Diretor overing rgining less thn 5 U.S.C. 7114, the Are Diretor will e pid t his/her erned hourly rte. 8

17 The Ageny will provide the FEA-SR Are Diretor digitl snner for use in the performne of representtionl funtions. Setion 10 Relese Time for Lol Presidents. The Assoition is entitled to the relese from duty of one lol Assoition President t eh of the elow noted distrits s listed: Fort Benning Fort Brgg Fort Cmpell Fort Knox Cmp Lejeune Gum Fort Stewrt Fort Jkson Quntio Fort Ruker Lurel By Mxwell West Point Roins Dhlgren ½ of eh workdy to inlude lunh nd ½ regulr preprtion times. 1 dy per week to inlude lunh or ½ dy twie week to inlude lunh nd ½ regulr preprtion times. ½ dy per week to inlude lunh nd ½ regulr preprtion times. d e f If the lol Assoition President is lssroom teher, then he/she will ontinue to e responsile for the following: report rds; grding nd prepring lesson plns for sujet re(s) he/she tehes; holding prent onferenes s required; nd other professionl duties ommensurte with his/her position. If the lol Assoition President is not lssroom teher, then he/she will ontinue to perform professionl duties ommensurte with his/her position; ut those duties will e redued in the sme proportion s the relese time desried in setion 10.. In ses of speil irumstnes, i.e., nturl disster, stndrdized testing, end-of-ourse exms, prent onferenes, field trips, field dys, the lol Assoition President my elet or e required to forego the offiil time period for given dy. The shedule of relese will e determined y the Ageny nd the Assoition t the lol level. The lol Assoition President will e pid y DDESS t his/her regulr rte of py for full-time (ten month) employment nd will reeive ll the enefits given for full-time employment with DDESS. 9

18 g h i j k l When offiil trvel is required to meet with Ageny offiils, the rgining unit memer relesed from duty will reeive government trvel orders. Trvel expenses will e pid in ordne with the JTR. In the event tht Ageny offiils initite meeting during reess period overing rgining under 5 U.S.C. 7114, the rgining unit memer will e pid t his/her erned hourly rte. The Ageny reognizes the right of the Assoition to selet or ppoint its representtives for purposes of rrying out representtionl responsiilities. When lol Assoition President gives three (3) dys dvne notie of n sene for more thn five (5) onseutive workdys for resons desried in Setion 2.. of Artile 21 of the MLA (Sik Leve), the lol Assoition President my designte nother rgining unit memer to ssume the responsiilities of the President strting on the first dy of suh leve, to inlude pproprite relese time s speified ove. When lol Assoition President gives three (3) dys dvne notie of n sene for more thn five (5) onseutive workdys for resons desrie in Artile 21, Setion 4.. (3) (Jury Duty), Setion 4.. (5) (Conferene Attendne), or Setion 7 (Militry Leve), the lol Assoition President my designte nother rgining unit memer to ssume the responsiilities of President strting on the third (3 rd ) dy of suh leve, to inlude pproprite relese time s speified ove. In pplying these provisions, the Ageny retins the right speified in Setion 10.d. ove. Setion 11 Offiil Time. Offiil Time shll e defined s time grnted to n Assoition representtive to ondut offiil representtionl duties or other tivities s provided in 5 U.S.C Offiil time my not e used to ondut internl Assoition usiness. Brgining units t DDESS shool distrits shll reeive nk of hours per shool yer to e used y Assoition offiils nd representtives for representtionl duties s follows: 10

19 Fort Benning Dependents Shools Fort Brg Dependents Shools Fort Cmpell Dependent Shools Fort Knox ommunity Shools Cmp Lejeune Dependents Shools Gum DDESS Distrit Lurel By Shools West Point Shool Mxwell Elementry Dependents Shool Roins Dependents Shools Fort Stewrt Dependents Shools Fort Jkson Dependents Shools Quntio Dependents Shools Fort Ruker Dependents Shools Dhlgren 220 hours 220 hours 220 hours 220 hours 220 hours 220 hours 150 hours 150 hours 150 hours 150 hours 110 hours 110 hours 110 hours 110 hours 110 hours These ove-mentioned hours do not inlude offiil time provided y sttute or regultion, or for Ageny-initited requests to meet with Assoition offiil(s). If mutully greed upon, dditionl offiil time my e grnted. d e Use of offiil time from the nk of hours shll normlly e requested in writing two (2) workdys in dvne utilizing the form t Appendix B. Any suh time pproved will e reorded on the sme form. Up to thirty-two (32) hours of offiil time per shool yer from eh respetive nk of hours my e used y Assoition-designted rgining unit memers t ll distrits, exept the DDESS Gum Distrit, to ttend Assoition Are Counil meetings. Up to forty-eight (48) hours of offiil time per shool yer from the nk of hours my e used y Assoition-designted rgining unit memers t the DDESS Gum Distrit to ttend Assoition Are Counil meetings. The hours uthorized for ttendne t Assoition Are Counil meetings re in ddition to the relese time provided under Setion 10. of Artile 6. Brgining unit memer ttendees will e provided temporry duty trvel (TDY) orders, i.e., permissive TDY orders. This trvel order will inlude pproprite sttements tht the trvel is t no expense to the Government, tht no per diem or other trvel reimursement is uthorized, tht the trvel is t the employee s request, nd tht no ounting ittion is required. In ddition to the offiil time uthorized in Setion 11.d. ove for ttendne t Assoition Are Counil meetings, the FEA-SR Are Diretor my identify five (5) dditionl employees within DDESS who my ttend eh Are Counil meeting up to mximum of eighty (80) hours per Are Counil meeting. No lter thn thirty (30) dys prior to the dte on whih the relese time for ttendne will our, the Are Diretor must give written notie to the DDESS Lor Reltions Speilist(s) of whih employees (to inlude the employee s shool nd shool distrit) hve een identified to ttend the Are Counil meeting. Should ny of the identified employees e unle to 11

20 ttend s plnned, sustitute my e permitted to go in his/her ple if notie of the need for ttendne is provided to the DDESS Lor Reltions Speilist(s) t lest five (5) workdys in dvne nd the employee s sene from the worksite is pproved y the supervisor. f g h Lol Assoition Presidents who re on offiil time s desried in Setion 10 of this Artile will perform duties s the eleted lol Assoition President in the offie spe provided y the Ageny. Exeptions to this requirement would e ttendne t meetings, sheduled meetings with the Ageny offiils, or other suh requirements tht neessitte the lol Assoition President to e in nother lotion within the Shool Distrit. When offiil time is requested nd grnted for short periods of time (less thn two hours), the Superintendent nd Lol Assoition President my mutully gree t the lol level tht suh relese time will e used t n lternte lotion within the Shool Distrit. Exept for pproved senes from the Shool Distrit to ttend Are Counil meetings, trining, or other events neessitting the Lol President s sene from the Distrit, offiil time will our within the Shool Distrit, to inlude trveling etween shools within the distrit. Any period of offiil time performed wy from Shool Distrit property (exluding trvel etween shools within the Distrit) requires the notifition/ pprovl of the Superintendent of the Shool Distrit. Setion 12 Offie Spe nd Equipment. Eh lol Assoition will e provided offie spe with desk, tle, loking file inet, hirs, nd n Ageny-stndrd omputer with softwre, printer, fx mhine, nd privte telephone line with long distne pility, if fesile. In providing n Ageny-stndrd omputer with softwre, printer, nd fx mhine, the Ageny grees to inlude the lol Assoition offie on the shedule for periodi upgrdes of offie equipment (exluding furnishings) whih is normlly three (3) to four (4) yer yle. Chnges/upgrde of equipment will e sheduled with the lol Assoition President. The Ageny will, s fr s possile, identify individuls who hve ess to the offie spe lloted for the Assoition s use. The Ageny grees to py the ost of instlltion for the telephone line; ut ll reurring operting osts, i.e., monthly long distne servie, FAX nd opy pper, et., will e the responsiility of the Assoition. All furniture nd equipment is for Assoition usiness nd my not e removed from shool premises without written uthoriztion from the Ageny. Setion 13 Use of Filities nd Equipment. Upon written request, the Ageny grees to provide spe in shool uilding for Assoition meetings fter duty hours. Use of the spe will e ontingent upon vilility nd will not interfere with ny shool tivities or ommunity funtions. The Assoition will e responsile for the seurity nd physil ondition of the spe/fility used. 12

21 d e f g The Assoition my use rgining unit memers miloxes within eh shool for distriution of Assoition noties, ulletins, nd other informtionl mterils to rgining unit memers. All suh mterils must e lerly identified s Assoition mterils. The Ageny shll lso provide the lol Assoition with milox nd/or distriution ox identified for the exlusive use of the Assoition in eh shool nd the shool distrit offie. The Assoition shll lso hve ess to the shool system s distriution mil servie. Any mil ddressed to the Assoition nd reeived t shool will e pled in the Assoition s milox. The Assoition representtive/designee shll e provided diret ess to opy mhine (s designted y the Ageny) in eh shool for use in offiil mtters. The Assoition shll provide the pper used for suh opying. The Assoition will e llowed use of up to one-hlf the spe on existing ulletin ords loted in teher or fulty lounges or will e provided with ulletin ord in eh shool s fulty lounge or other pproprite lotion. Suh ulletin ord spe shll e for the exlusive use of the Assoition. Upon dvne written notie, the Ageny shll mke resonle effort to ensure tht Assoition employees nd offiils re llowed ess to militry instlltions in order to ondut lormngement or Assoition usiness. Upon written request y the Assoition, the Ageny shll onsider llowing the Assoition s use of other shool-level filities, equipment, nd/or servies not otherwise speifilly mentioned in this Agreement. Setion 14. Shool Bord Meetings. d The Lol Assoition President or designee will e permitted to ttend ll lol distrit shool ord meetings, inluding regulrly sheduled meetings nd working group meetings. Exeutive session meetings my e losed under 10 U.S.C (d) (6). The Lol Assoition President/designee my sumit items for plement on the gend. The Lol Assoition President/designee my prtiipte in shool ord disussions of gend items in ordne with lol shool ord proedures. A opy of the gend nd the previous month s minutes will e provided to the Lol Assoition President/designee upon distriution to the shool ord. Offiil time will e provided if the meeting is held during the shool dy. A opy of ll minutes of open meetings of the ord will e posted in eh shool upon pprovl nd distriution. These rights will pply to ny future estlished shool ord(s). If trvel outside the ommuting re is required for ttendne t shool ord meeting, the Lol Assoition President, or designee, will reeive reimursement for trvel expenses in ordne with the JTR. 13

22 Setion 15. FEA At-Lrge Offiers. In the event n FEA At-Lrge Offier is eleted from the DDESS professionl rgining unit, the nk of hours of offiil time identified for the distrit where tht rgining unit employee works (Setion 11 of this Artile) will e inresed y 160 hours of offiil time for the shool yer(s) during whih the employee holds the position of FEA At-Lrge Offier. The FEA At-Lrge Offier will e orded up to mximum of twenty (20) workdys (160 hours) of offiil time s needed to ttend FEA Bord meetings, workshops, trining, nd the like. Requests for offiil time for this purpose will e sumitted, t lest five (5) workdys in dvne, to the Superintendent of the FEA At-Lrge Offier s Distrit on the form t Appendix B. Suh requests for offiil time re sujet to pprovl y the Superintendent. 14

23 ARTICLE 7. BARGAINING RIGHTS AND REQUIREMENTS Setion 1 Impt nd Implementtion Brgining. In the event tht the Ageny exerises its rights under 5 U.S.C. 7106(), the following rules shll pply: (1) For proposed hnges whih ffet more thn one Distrit, the FEA-SR Are Diretor will e notified in writing of the proposed hnge(s), vi ertified mil, or hnd-delivered with signed knowledgment of reeipt. For lol Shool Distrit or shool uilding proposed hnge(s), the Lol Assoition President will e notified in writing of the proposed tion(s), vi first lss mil, or hnd-delivered with signed knowledgment of reeipt; nd opy will e provided to the FEASR Are Diretor. All suh written notifition(s) will inlude desription of the proposed hnge(s) long with the Ageny rtionle for the hnge(s). The dte of reeipt for the ertified mil, or the tul knowledgment dte in the se of personl delivery, will e the strting dte for ounting ll future time requirements under this Artile. (2) If requested, the Assoition nd the Ageny will disuss the detils of the Ageny s proposed hnge(s). (3) For proposed hnge(s) whih ffet more thn one Distrit, the FEA-SR Are Diretor will hve thirty (30) lendr dys to sumit written proposl(s) to the Ageny s proposed hnge(s) to the offie of the DDESS Diretor. For lol Shool Distrit or shool uilding hnge(s), the Lol Assoition President will hve fifteen (15) lendr dys to respond to the lol Superintendent with ny written proposl(s) to the proposed hnge(s). (4) Brgining sessions will ommene during the norml usiness dy nd t ple onvenient to the Ageny nd the Assoition. Lol Shool Distrit rgining will normlly tke ple t the lol Shool Distrit s defined in Appendix N. Assoition representtives, t the DDESS or Shool Distrit level, involved in rgining (inluding resonle preprtion time) with the Ageny, will e in duty sttus nd on offiil time for py purposes, regrdless of the time of the dy or prt of the lendr yer. Brgining on lol Shool Distrit nd shool uilding hnge(s) will ommene not lter thn ten (10) lendr dys fter reeipt of the Assoition s proposl(s). Brgining on proposed hnge(s), whih ffet more thn one distrit, will ommene not lter thn forty-five (45) lendr dys fter reeipt of the Assoition s proposl(s). (5) If, fter proper notifition of proposed hnge(s), the Assoition fils to respond with written proposl(s) during the time frmes listed ove, the Ageny my implement its proposed hnge(s). (6) Impt nd implementtion rgining, t ll levels, my e omplished through telephone, fsimile, video teleonferening, et., nd/or person-to-person meetings. The Prties gree tht rgining unit memers will e ompensted for time spent in suh rgining in ordne with Setion 1..(4) of Artile 7. (7) If trvel is required for the FEA-SR Are Diretor to engge in suh rgining, the Ageny will issue government trvel order nd py trvel expenses in ordne with the Joint Trvel Regultions. The Ageny reognizes the Assoition s right to informtion under 5 U.S.C. 7114() (4). The Prties gree tht ll suh requests for informtion y the Assoition will e in writing (per the formt in Appendix C) nd will rtiulte why the Assoition needs the requested informtion, inluding the uses to whih the Assoition will put the informtion nd the onnetion etween those uses nd the Assoition s representtionl responsiilities. All suh requests meeting the ove-stted riteri will e proessed y the Ageny in ten (10) workdys. The Ageny further 15

24 grees to provide to the Assoition, without hrge nd to the extent not prohiited y lw, ll suh dt nd informtion normlly mintined y the Ageny in the regulr ourse of usiness, whih re resonly ville nd neessry for full nd proper disussion, understnding, nd negotition of sujets within the sope of rgining, nd whih do not onstitute guidne, dvie, ounsel, or trining provided for Ageny offiils or supervisors, relting to olletive rgining. If the Ageny needs lrifition of request for informtion or needs to ommunite ounterviling nti-dislosure interests on employee privy onerns, it will do so in writing. d e f The Ageny reognizes tht the Assoition must e notified of ll hnges to personnel poliies, prties, nd/or terms nd onditions of employment tht impt rgining unit memers, prior to implementtion, in ordne with Chpter 71 of Title 5. The oligtion set forth ove in the immeditely preeding sentene inludes, ut is not limited to, the soliittion of volunteers nd implementtion of ommittee reommendtions tht onstitute hnges to personnel poliies, prties, nd/or terms nd onditions of employment tht impt rgining unit memers. The Prties further gree tht the terms nd onditions of employment in existene during Shool Yer will e the sis on whih to determine in the future if hnge hs ourred or is eing proposed y the Ageny. However, the Prties gree tht normlly hnge in onditions of employment does not inlude ssignment of non preprtory duties nd responsiilities typilly nd ustomrily ssoited with the position to whih ssigned. The Prties reognize tht hnges to the mnner in whih duties re ssigned my onstitute hnge in onditions of employment whih would rete n oligtion for notie nd susequent impt nd implementtion rgining. When n Assoition representtive(s) eomes wre tht hnge in the ssignment of duties to professionl rgining unit memers hs ourred or is plnned to our whih the Assoition elieves rises to level whih should hve reted rgining oligtion nd the Ageny hs not provided notie of the hnge(s), the FEA-SR Are Diretor (or designee) will notify the ssigned DDESS Lor Reltions Speilist of the Assoition s desire to meet nd disuss the hnge. In n ttempt to resolve the mtter, pproprite DDESS offiil(s) nd Assoition representtive(s) will, within two (2) workdys of suh notifition, disuss the hnge(s); nd DDESS grees to onsider the Assoition s input in n ttempt to resolve the mtter. If, t the onlusion of the meeting etween DDESS offiil(s) nd the Assoition representtive(s), the mtter is not resolved to the Prties stisftion, either prty my pursue their respetive ontrtul nd/or sttutory remedies. Any impt nd implementtion rgining lredy egun over ny hnges in onditions of employment on the dte of the exeution of this MOA will e llowed to ontinue. 16

25 Setion 2 Mid-Term Brgining. The Prties gree tht during the twelfth (12 th ) month of this Agreement tht either side my propose rgining over ny DDESS-wide mtter not resonly overed y or ontined in this Agreement. When mid-term rgining is proposed, the following proedures will e followed: d Initil rgining requests will e sent vi ertified mil, return reeipt requested, or hnd-delivered with signed knowledgment of reeipt, to the DDESS Diretor; or, in the se of Ageny-requested rgining, to the Assoition Are Diretor. The initil rgining requests will inlude proposls nd written explntion of the result desired y the proposls. All requests y the Assoition for informtion will follow the proedures set forth in Setion 1.. of this Artile. Within thirty (30) dys of reeipt of the request to rgin, the Prties will meet to disuss ground rules nd susequent shedule for the sumission of ounter-proposls nd rgining. Setion 3 Brgining Levels. DDESS Level Brgining (1) Issues tht ffet more thn one DDESS shool distrit will e rgined t the DDESS/Assoition s regionl level. (2) The Assoition nd the Ageny will determine the mke- up of their own DDESS level rgining tems. (3) The Assoition rgining tem will e in pid duty sttus on offiil time during ll rgining, regrdless of the time of dy or prt of the lendr yer. Py for ll rgining tem memers during rgining will e t eh individul rgining tem memer s erned hourly rte. Lol Shool Distrit Level Brgining (1) Issues unique to lol shool distrit, or individul shool, will e rgined y the lol Assoition nd Ageny representtive(s). (2) The Assoition nd the Ageny will determine the mke- up of their own lol rgining tems. Eh lol Assoition rgining tem will e mde up of no less thn two memers. If the lol Ageny rgining tem exeeds two memers, then the lol Assoition rgining tem will e entitled to the sme numer s the lol Ageny tem. (3) The Assoition rgining tem will e in pid duty sttus on offiil time during ll rgining, regrdless of the time of dy or prt of the lendr yer. Py for ll rgining tem memers during rgining will e t eh individul rgining tem memer s erned hourly rte. (4) If pplile, ll greements rehed will eome inding on the Distrit. 17

26 Setion 1 Sttutory Rights. ARTICLE 8. EMPLOYEE RIGHTS Eh employee shll hve the right to form, join, or ssist ny lor orgniztion, or to refrin from suh tivity, freely nd without fer of penlty or reprisl; nd eh employee shll e proteted in the exerise of suh right. Setion 2 Right to Representtion. d e Employees of the unit hve the right, regrdless of Assoition memership, to ring mtters of personl onern to the ttention of pproprite Ageny offiils, with or without ssistne from Assoition offiils. When filing omplint or ppel under ny system other thn the negotited grievne proedure, employees shll hve the right to e represented y representtive of their own hoosing. Eh employee my seek ssistne from his/her Assoition representtive t ny time during the duty dy when neither is involved in ssigned duties. If memer needs immedite ssistne from n Assoition representtive during instrutionl time, the employee shll ontt the shool prinipl; nd if the prinipl determines tht work onditions permit, the employee nd the Assoition representtive will e relesed nd provided overge for their responsiilities. The Assoition representtive will e required to omplete n offiil time request form (Appendix B) nd hve it pproved y the pproprite mngement offiil. Nothing in this Agreement shll require n employee to eome or to remin memer of the Assoition or to py money to the Assoition exept pursunt to voluntry, written uthoriztion y memer for the pyment of dues through pyroll dedutions. Setion 3 Offiil Personnel Files. Only douments or dt uthorized y Offie of Personnel Mngement (OPM) regultions shll e retined in the employee s Offiil Personnel File (OPF). Only one OPF shll e kept for eh unit memer, nd it shll e mintined t the serviing personnel offie. Upon written request, opy of the OPF will e furnished to the employee. In ddition to the OPF, the Ageny reserves the right to mintin employee file(s) t the DDESS Hedqurters, DoDEA Personnel Center, lol shool distrit, nd/or supervisory levels. Upon written request, the Ageny will notify the employee of ll files retined on sid employee. Employees will hve ess to, nd re uthorized to mke opies of, douments in their employee file(s) s provided y pplile lw, rule, or regultion. Informtion ontined in the OPF or ny employee file(s) will e mde ville to uthorized persons only for offiil use s provided y pplile lw, rule, or regultion. 18

27 d e f An employee hs the right to request in writing tht doument(s) e removed from his/her employee file. The Ageny will respond expeditiously in writing to ny suh requests. Reords of dmonishments nd letters of ution, wrning or requirement, shll not e pled in the employee s OPF. Letters of reprimnd nd ny response thereto, shll e removed from the employee s OPF not lter thn two yers from the dte of the letter of reprimnd, ut my e removed erlier t the supervisor s disretion. Unless otherwise required y lw, rule, or regultion, Ageny offiils will not initite or respond to request for informtion out unit employee, or former unit employee, from prospetive non- Federl employer nd/or edutionl/professionl ertifying geny unless the employee hs sumitted signed relese. Asent requirement under lw, rule, or regultion, or signed relese from the employee, the Ageny will only provide the following informtion: nme; position(s) held; nnul slry; nd period(s) of employment. Setion 4 Py Reords. In the event tht unit employee s pyhek is not reeived on the estlished pydy, upon the unit employee s request, the Ageny will request from the serviing finne offie tht replement hek e issued s soon s possile. The Ageny grees to py interest on ny py reeived more thn thirty (30) dys eyond its due dte s provided y lw, rule, or regultion. Unit employees re enourged, ut not required, to mintin offiil douments they reeive relted to py nd leve nd to rry suh douments with them when they re trnsferred or ressigned. When the finne reords of unit employee re lost, destroyed, or delyed in onjuntion with ressignment or trnsfer, the Ageny grees to ept the unit employee s most reent Leve nd Ernings sttement or Stndrd Form 50, Notifition of Personnel Ation, s evidene of the proper sis for pyment until the tul py reords hve een reonstruted or reeived. Setion 5 Investigtions. If unit employee is to e served with wrrnt or supoen or is to e interviewed in onnetion with n investigtion while t shool, the Ageny shll mke resonle efforts to ensure tht suh tivity is done in privte without the knowledge of other employees or students. Setion 6 Telephone Aess. The Ageny shll mke every resonle effort to ensure tht rgining unit memers responsile for onfidentil informtion, other thn lssroom tehers, will e provided telephone in their offie or work res. If the rgining unit memer is teher, then, where possile, the Ageny shll mke resonle effort to ensure tht memers hve telephone in their respetive lssrooms. The Ageny shll lso mke resonle efforts to ensure tht unit employees hve privy on the shool site for mking neessry phone lls to prents of students, personnel offies, shool dministrtion offies, militry offies, nd other Ageny offiils. 19

28 Unit employees shll e uthorized to mke lol or non-toll telephone lls for neessry personl usiness from government telephones. Suh lls shll e kept to minimum nd should not interrupt lssroom instrution or other ssigned duties. Setion 7 Resigntion nd Retirement. A unit employee is free to set the effetive dte of his/her resigntion or retirement, exept s otherwise provided y lw, rule, or regultion. The Ageny will mke ville nnul trining on retirement for interested employees who re within five (5) yers of their eligile retirement dte. Other interested employees my ttend if not otherwise engged in instrutionl or ssigned duties. Setion 8 Proessing Pperwork upon the Deth of n Employee. The Ageny shll ensure tht pproprite personnel tions relted to the deth of unit employee re proessed expeditiously fter reeipt of ertified opy of the deth ertifite. Setion 9 Providing Position Desriptions. Upon initil employment, nd therefter upon request, eh rgining unit memer will e provided with opy of his/her urrent position desription. The Ageny reognizes tht the Assoition is entitled to rgin the impt nd implementtion of hnges to position desriptions tht hnge terms nd onditions of employment in ordne with 5 U.S.C. Chpter 71. The Prties gree tht, s of the dte of exeution of this ontrt, uniform position desriptions do not exist. Until uniform position desriptions re estlished y the Ageny, position desriptions do not onstitute personnel poliies, prties, nd/or terms nd onditions of employment for rgining unit memers. Setion 10 Compenstion Informtion. Upon eing hired, nd therefter t the eginning of eh shool yer, eh unit memer will e provided n pplile slry shedule. Upon rgining unit memer sumitting written request to the Ageny within the first sixty (60) dys of eh new shool yer, the Ageny will provide the unit memer with worksheet (Appendix D) explining their slry rekdown for the yer. If neessry, the worksheet will e updted nd redistriuted one during the yer if the employee so requests in writing. The worksheet will reflet wht the employee hs erned y py period ompred with wht the employee hs reeived nd the umultive result of slry erned ompred to slry pid. This informtion will llow employees to identify the py period(s) in whih slries erned nd pid re t rek-even point. 20

29 Setion 11 Prking. The Ageny grees to mke resonle effort to ensure tht unit employees hve essile prking to the work site. Setion 12 Providing Storge Spe. Eh unit memer will e provided t lest one loking storge re, i.e., inet, file inet, desk, loset, et., for the storge of his/her personl elongings during the shool dy. Additionlly, the Ageny will mke resonle effort to provide dequte storge spe for employment-relted supplies, mterils, nd equipment. Setion 13 Providing Aess to Work nd Storge Ares. Aess will e provided to filities nd equipment tht re required in the performne of rgining unit memer s duties during norml shool hours. The Ageny will mke resonle effort to provide unit employees ess to shool filities nd equipment fter norml duty hours nd during ll reess periods, where helth, sfety, nd seurity onerns n e met. The Ageny shll not open loked storge res loted in the unit employee s work re unless the memer hs een given the opportunity to e present or hs given written onsent, exept for emergenies tht neessitte suh tion or situtions whih my endnger the helth or sfety of students or employees. Setion 14 Relotion of Equipment nd Furniture. The Ageny will mke resonle efforts to ensure tht unit memers who must hve unique mterils or lrge equipment to dequtely perform their duties (e.g., siene, musi, rt) shll e ssisted in the movement of these items nd not e required to move them lone. Relotion of equipment, furniture, storge inets, nd ookshelves loted in the unit memer s work re, shll our, if possile, when the employee is present. Setion 15 Stff Lounge. The Ageny will provide minimum of one fulty lounge per shool for use y rgining unit memers nd other Ageny stff. Where fesile, the lounge shll e furnished with ouh, hir, tle nd hirs, mirowve, refrigertor, sod mhine, nd telephone. The lounge will e mintined y the Ageny. Setion 16 Dress nd Apperne. Unit employees re expeted to omply with resonle pprel nd grooming stndrds tht re derived from onsidertion of helth, sfety, nd type of position oupied. Any prohiitions y supervisors on unit employee dress nd pperne must e sed on ler showing tht the prohiited pperne item ontriutes to n unsfe, non-produtive, or disruptive work environment. 21

30 Setion 17 Grdes. All unit memers must utilize the grding system estlished within their respetive shools. In the event tht the grde(s) of student re hllenged, the employee will e provided with n opportunity to explin nd justify the grde(s) ssigned. In the event tht ny grde is hnged y the dministrtion of the shool, or the employee is direted y the dministrtion to hnge the grde(s), the employee will e provided with written sttement from the Ageny stting tht the grde(s) ws hnged y the shool dministrtion. 22

31 ARTICLE 9. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION PROCEDURES Setion 1 Assignment Due to Temporry Illness or Injury. A unit employee reuperting from n illness or n injury nd temporrily unle to perform his/her full-time duties my sumit written request to his/her supervisor for temporry ssignment to limited duty. The employee hs the responsiility to support his/her request with pproprite medil doumenttion s provided in 5 C.F.R. Prt 339. The Ageny shll onsider grnting suh temporry ssignment if supported y pproprite medil doumenttion nd position to whih the unit employee my e detiled re ville. The Ageny my lso onsider resonly modifying the employee s urrent jo, if pproprite. Setion 2 Voie nd Tpe Reordings. The Prties gree tht during ny privte onverstion or meeting, ttended y DDESS mngement offiil(s) nd rgining unit memer(s) tht no voie or tpe reording will e mde without the ssent of ll present. Setion 3 Protionry Employees. d Newly hired permnent employees must serve ontinuous one- yer protionry period within the sme DDESS shool distrit. Newly hired, rehired, nd/or promoted permnent employees, with prior experiene in the DDESS or DoDDS systems who hve suessfully ompleted protionry period of t lest one (1) yer in ertified rgining unit position, will not hve to omplete nother protionry period. All newly hired permnent employees, inluding those serving protionry period, will reeive full enefits from the dte of initil ppointment in ordne with pproprite lw, rule, nd regultion. The Ageny will utilize Not to Exeed (NTE) ppointments in ordne with OPM regultions. If rgining unit memer suessfully ompletes two onseutive NTE ppointments of t lest 180 lendr dys eh nd if rehired in tht shool distrit, tht person will serve no protionry period. Setion 4 Unfir Lor Prties. At lest fifteen (15) lendr dys efore filing n unfir lor prtie hrge with the Regionl Offie of the Federl Lor Reltions Authority, the inititing prty will identify lerly to the hrged prty the sis of the possile unfir lor prtie hrge nd the irumstnes surrounding it. During the fifteen (15) lendr-dy period, the Prties my onfer to disuss nd ttempt in good fith to settle ny lleged violtions of the Federl Servie Lor Mngement Reltions Sttute tht my eome the sis of n unfir lor prtie hrge if not resolved informlly. Exluded from the ove proedures re llegtions tht, if filing were delyed, would result in sustntil or irreprle hrm to the filing prty s interest or property (e.g., those situtions tht would justify injuntive relief in Federl Court) or would result in n untimely filing of the unfir lor prtie hrge. 23

32 Setion 5 Soliittion Ativities. Although the Prties support DoD nd Ageny-uthorized svings ond nd other hritle tivities, no employee(s) will e oered y the Ageny to prtiipte in or ontriute to ny svings ond or hritle tivity. Employees my not engge in non-dod or non-ageny uthorized soliittion tivities within the work site during duty hours. Employees my not utilize Ageny-produed employee listings, rosters, or diretories or utilize Ageny reords to produe suh listings, rosters, or diretories for the purpose of milings (to inlude eletroni trnsmissions) or soliittion of produts or servies. Setion 6 Sign-in / Sign-out. The Ageny hs determined tht DDESS Shool Distrits will not use generl sign-in nd sign-out requirements for rgining unit memers. However, individul sign-in nd sign-out requirements my e used, t the disretion of the Superintendent nd/or Prinipl, only for individul employees who hve trdiness prolems or who hve left the work site erly without permission. 24

33 ARTICLE 10. ASSOCIATION AND DDESS COOPERATION Setion 1 Providing Informtion. By the end of the fourth week of the eginning of eh shool yer, the Ageny will provide the FEA- SR Are Diretor with listing of rgining unit memers, orgnized y shool distrit, ontining eh rgining unit memer s nme nd jo title. An updte of the listing will e provided to the Assoition in Ferury of eh yer. The Ageny grees to provide the FEA-SR Are Diretor listing in Septemer nd Ferury of eh yer of ll employees in the rgining unit who hve seprted, resigned, retired, or died. The Ageny lso grees to provide promotion list of ll rgining unit employees during Septemer nd Ferury of eh yer. Setion 2 Prtnership Committee (PC). To promote nd filitte understnding nd onstrutive reltionships etween the Assoition nd the Ageny, the DDESS Diretor nd the Are Diretor, FEA-SR, will meet periodilly to disuss mtters of mutul onern to inlude lor reltions trining for rgining unit memers. Setion 3 Communition. In the dministrtion of this Agreement, hnnels of ommunition for oth Prties shll normlly e s follows: (1) Individul Shool Level - Shool Administrtor nd Fulty Representtive Spokesperson (FRS). The Lol Assoition President will notify mngement of the rgining unit memer within the individul shool who represents the Assoition. (2) Distrit Level - The distrit Superintendent or designee nd the Lol Assoition President or designee. (3) DESS Level - The DDESS Diretor or designee nd the FEA-SR Are Diretor or designee. Every effort shll e mde to resolve disputes involving the pplition or interprettion of this Agreement t the lowest possile orgniztionl level prior to elevting the mtter to the next higher level. The Assoition shll notify the Ageny s soon s possile fter this Agreement is signed of the nmes of the unit employees designted to represent the Assoition t the vrious levels. The Ageny shll notify the Assoition s soon s possile fter this Agreement is signed of the individuls nmes designted to represent the Ageny t the vrious levels. Therefter, the Prties t the pproprite level will notify eh other in writing s soon s possile of ny hnge of their respetive representtives. 25

34 ARTICLE 11. HEALTH AND SAFETY Setion 1 Sfe nd Helthy Working Conditions. d e f g h The Ageny reognizes its responsiility to provide nd mintin sfe nd helthy work environment nd to follow government guidelines regrding environmentl onditions for Federl uildings. The Ageny therefore ommits to mke resonle efforts in this regrd to ontin sestos nd provide snitry filities, mold-free ir, dequte lighting, ventiltion, heting, ir onditioning, nd work res free from pollutnts nd exessive noise levels. The Ageny will mke resonle efforts to provide work re free of wepons, explosive devies, nd thretening ehvior. The Ageny will mke resonle efforts to estlish hnnels of ommunition with offiils of the host militry deprtment nd to ensure tht dequte support is provided to mintin sfe nd helthy work environment. The Ageny shll notify the Lol Assoition President nd pproprite Fulty Representtive Spokesperson when the Ageny eomes wre of helth nd sfety prolems in shool or shools. The Assoition ommits to ooperting with the Ageny to provide nd mintin sfe nd helthy work environment y mking resonle efforts to enourge employees to dhere to estlished sfety regultions nd to otherwise perform their respetive duties in sfe mnner. The Ageny will trin employees in pproprite sfety mtters. Employees will e lert to unsfe prties, equipment, or onditions, s well s environmentl onditions, within their immedite res tht might represent suspeted helth hzrds. If n employee oserves ondition tht resonle person would pereive s unsfe, the employee shll report sme to his/her immedite supervisor. The Ageny grees to request the host se Industril Hygiene Offie to mke determintions onerning rgining unit memer(s) exposure to hemil or physil hzrds. If pproprite, the Industril Hygiene Offie will ple the employee on medil surveillne, doument the exposure nd tretment in the employee s medil reord, nd provide the employee opy. Setion 2 Inspetions. The Ageny shll request periodi inspetions (ut not less thn i-nnully) y host militry se offiils for ompline with helth nd sfety requirements nd identifition of unsfe, unhelthful, or hzrdous onditions. Copies of inspetion reports will e furnished to the Lol Assoition President. Setion 3 Sfety Equipment nd Apprel. Protetive lothing, devies, nd sfety equipment required y the Ageny shll e furnished y the Ageny nd used y the employee. 26

35 Setion 4 Federl Employees Compenstion At / Workers Compenstion. Work-relted idents or illness will e dministered y the Ageny under the Federl Employees Workers Compenstion At. FECA informtion nd lim forms my e otined from the serviing personnel Site Offie. The Ageny will post opy of the urrent Workers Compenstion guidelines on eh offiil ulletin ord nd will updte it when pproprite. Setion 5 Threts Aginst the Sfety of the Shool. The Ageny shll notify the Lol Assoition President of threts mde to the sfety or seurity of ll distrit filities where rgining unit memers re ssigned, when nd if suh informtion is mde ville to the Ageny for relese y the host militry servie. In the event tht ny shool uilding is evuted in whole or in prt y reson of ny report or thret of dmge thereto y om, fire, or other lethl instrument or inident, employees will not e required to prtiipte in ny serh for suh lethl or destrutive instrument(s). Setion 6 Emergeny Proedures. d e When the Ageny determines tht onditions re so severe tht students re unle to get to shool, or tht lte strt or erly dismissl hour for students is wrrnted, the Ageny my nel shool, uthorize use of exused leve y employees, or re-shedule the shool dy, s pproprite. The Ageny will mke resonle effort to notify employees of nelltions or delys s erly s possile. In the event shool is losed more thn two (2) dys during the shool yer, the Ageny my reshedule the dy(s) lost from non- instrutionl dys or extend the work yer. In the event the shool dy is offiilly neled y the Ageny, employees my e required to report for duty. Employees will e pid their erned hourly rte for ll dys required to e mde up eyond the work yer requirements s desried in Artile 18. When n erly dismissl hour is delred efore the end of the shool dy due to dverse onditions, unit employees my e exused from duty t time determined y the Ageny fter the students hve een dismissed for the dy. Setion 7 Assistne with Reument of Lost or Dmged Property. When unit memer suffers loss or dmge of personl items on shool grounds or filities, the Ageny will refer the employee to the lol offie of the Stff Judge Advote, Clims Setion, for pproprite informtion nd lims proessing. 27

36 Setion 8 Assistne If n Employee is Assulted. Mngement will mke resonle efforts to ensure the sfety of its employees. Brgining unit memers shll report to their prinipl or other immedite supervisor ses of physil ssult nd/or verl threts suffered y them in onnetion with their employment. When n employee s sene rises out of ssult or injury inurred in onnetion with his/her employment, the unit memer shll e entitled to suh ompenstion s provided for in 5 U.S.C et seq. Setion 9 Employee Assistne Progrm. The Ageny shll notify unit employees nnully of the existene of the Employee Assistne Progrm (EAP). If the Ageny or ffeted employee feels tht referrl to the EAP is neessry, it shll e rrnged s expeditiously s possile. Setion 10 Communition Devies in Clssrooms. Whenever possile, ll instrutionl lssrooms shll e equipped with some form of operle two-wy interommunition devie for diret ontt with the shool offie. Setion 11 Heptitis Vintion nd Flu Shots. Heptitis B vintions shll e dministered in ompline with the OSHA Bloodorne Stndrd 29 C.F.R nd Universl Preutions pulished y the Center for Disese Control. Unit memer who re not listed s At Risk my mke written requests to their immedite supervisor to e inluded in the vintions; however, the Ageny retins the right to pprove or dispprove the request. The Ageny will request the host militry sponsor to mke nnul flu shots ville for unit employees free of hrge. 28

37 Setion 1 Student Disipline. ARTICLE 12. STUDENT DISCIPLINE The Assoition nd the Ageny gree tht the mintenne of the pproprite stndrds of student disipline promotes n optimum lerning environment. The Ageny nd unit employees re responsile for mintining disipline in ordne with stndrds estlished y the Ageny. The Ageny shll provide support nd ssistne to unit employees in their efforts to mintin disipline. When there re instnes of persistent nd/or severe misehvior, the Ageny, if it deems it pproprite, will ring together fmily, ommunity, shool offiils (inluding tehers), nd ny other pproprite individuls, inluding the unit ommnding offier, in n effort to filitte improvement in the student s ehvior. The Prties reognize tht the finl deision nd responsiility onerning student disipline is retined y the Ageny. Setion 2 Student Disipline Poliy. Eh rgining unit memer is responsile for rrying out the Ageny s student disipline poliy nd shll e provided opies of the Ageny s poliies, guidelines, nd regultions onerning pupil ehvior nd disipline. 29

38 ARTICLE 13. PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES Setion 1 Poliy. Disled students will e eduted to the mximum extent pproprite with non-disled students. The provision of speil edution nd relted servies, inluding eligiility, plement deisions, nd proedures, will e in ordne with DoD Instrution , Provision of Erly Intervention nd Speil Edution Servies to Eligile DoD Dependents. Setion 2 Trining. In-servie trining of generl nd speil edution instrutionl nd support stff to effetively implement DoD Instrution , Provision of Erly Intervention nd Speil Edution Servies to Eligile DoD Dependents, will e provided to unit memers y the Ageny. Setion 3 Eligiility, Servies, nd Plement. The Ageny reognizes the importne of the regulr lssroom teher s input during the Cse Study Committee (CSC) proess. As suh, one or more of the hild s regulr lssroom tehers, if pproprite, must prtiipte in CSC tht determines hild s eligiility for speil edution servies. Additionlly, one or more of the hild s regulr lssroom tehers, if pproprite, must prtiipte in CSC tht develops nd/or reviews hild s individulized edution pln (IEP) nd determines pproprite plement in the lest restritive environment. The Prties reognize tht some IEPs my use hnges in onditions of employment neessitting impt nd implementtion rgining in ordne with Chpter 71 of title 5, United Sttes Code. The Prties reognize, however, tht provision of speil edution servies nnot e delyed pending ompletion of rgining. As suh, the Prties gree tht, when rgining is required, the required speil edution servies will e provided to students; nd ny greement susequently rehed through the rgining proess will e pplied retrotively. Setion 4 Ageny Considertion of Brgining Unit Memer Request for Plement of Students with Disilities. The plement of students with disilities is t the disretion of the Ageny nd must e in ordne with hild s IEP. However, t the end of the shool yer, the Ageny will ept requests from tehers for plement of students with disilities in their lss for the following shool yer. Setion 5 Teher Input. As memer of the CSC, the teher hs n equl voie in determining the nture nd delivery of servies required to meet the gols nd ojetives of the student s IEP. At ny time, the teher my request tht the CSC e reonvened to review the servies eing provided nd propose modifitions to the IEP sed on student progress in the lss. Setion 6 Pupil Teher Rtio (Clss Size). The Ageny reognizes the need to tke into onsidertion the numer of students with disilities nd the severity of their disilities when pling suh students in regulr lsses. Consistent with the Ageny s resoures, pupil-teher rtios (lss size) will reflet suh onsidertion. 30

39 Setion 7 Request for Assistne. The Ageny will onsider requests for ssistne, espeilly in ses of self-ontined speil edution lssrooms. 31

40 Setion 1 Ademi Freedom. ARTICLE 14. PROFESSIONAL MATTERS The Prties knowledge tht the Ageny determines the mission, si edutionl poliies, urriulum, nd the overll demi development of students enrolled in the shools. Unit employees re free to develop their own plns of instrution nd ounseling sujet to the guidelines nd provisions for review estlished y the Ageny. Setion 2 Individully Developed Mterils. Edutionl mterils individully developed y the unit memer on his/her own time using nongovernment mterils re the property of the rgining unit memer nd my e eonomilly exploited sujet to the Joint Ethis Regultion (JER) nd other pplile Federl ethis rules nd regultions. Brgining unit memers my lwys request n opinion from the Ageny s Designted Ethis Offiil regrding ownership nd eonomi exploittion of individully-developed edutionl mterils. 32

41 Setion 1 Ojetive. ARTICLE 15. PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SYSTEM The primry ojetives of the DDESS performne pprisl system for rgining unit memers re improved instrution nd edutionl servies. Setion 2 Applition. DDESS professionl rgining unit employees overed y this Agreement shll reeive performne pprisls per DoDEA Regultion , DoD DDESS Performne Apprisl Progrm for Tehers nd Other Professionl Brgining Unit Memers. Prior to mending this instrution, the Ageny will first notify the Assoition nd provide n opportunity to rgin in ordne with Chpter 71 of Title 5, United Sttes Code. The Ageny shll pply performne stndrds in suh mnner tht ompetent employee n resonly e expeted to ttin them. Employees shll e informed of the supervisors who will evlute their performne. Setion 3 Performne Apprisl Pln. The performne pprisl pln will inlude ll of the reorded elements tht set forth expeted performne. The performne pprisl pln must inlude ll: (1) ritil elements, i.e., work ssignments or responsiilities of suh importne tht uneptle performne on the element would result in determintion tht n employee s performne is uneptle; nd (2) performne stndrds, i.e., desription of the fully suessful performne level for eh element (ritil nd non-ritil). The performne stndrds my inlude qulity, quntity, timeliness, nd mnner of performne. Some performne stndrds my e non-pplile during the performne pprisl period. A opy of the performne pprisl pln (ritil nd non-ritil elements nd performne stndrds) shll e reviewed with, nd furnished to, eh employee. New elements nd stndrds reted for rgining unit memers fter the exeution of this Agreement will e rgined with the Assoition to the extent required y Chpter 71 of Title 5. Setion 4 Forml Oservtion Shedule. The Ageny hs determined tht n ppriser my formlly oserve protionry rgining unit memer in his or her primry duty minimum of three (3) times in the shool yer. For employees hired prior to 15 Novemer of the shool yer, the first forml oservtion (to e held prior to the 1 st of Ferury in eh shool yer) my e nnouned in dvne, nd pre-oservtion onferene my e held etween the ppriser nd the employee. Susequent oservtions my or my not e nnouned. Forml oservtions my e followed within five (5) shool- dy period y onferene etween the ppriser nd the employee to ommunite oservtion feedk. The employee my sumit written response within five (5) shool dys therefter. The Ageny hs determined tht n ppriser my formlly oserve other rgining unit memers minimum of one (1) time per shool yer. Suh oservtion(s) my or my not e nnouned in dvne. Suh forml oservtion(s) my e followed within five (5) shool-dy period y onferene to ommunite oservtion feedk. The employee my sumit written response within five (5) shool dys therefter. 33

42 Setion 5 Apprisl. Apprisl results shll e used to: Reognize, knowledge, nd enourge exellene in employee performne; Doument stisftory employee performne in the ssigned res of responsiility; Identify res in whih the employee my need improvement; nd/or d Doument performne judged to e uneptle sed on the performne pprisl pln. Setion 6 Assistne. In those instnes where improvement is neessry, the Ageny shll provide ssistne to improve uneptle performne prior to proposing ny performne-sed tion (exluding ressignment). To this end, the Ageny shll provide timely notie to the employee of uneptle performne in one or more ritil elements. The notie shll e provided in writing to the employee, nd the employee will e provided resonle opportunity to improve performne. The notie will inlude: (1) The ritil element(s) of the performne pprisl pln tht is uneptle, inluding desription(s) of speifi performne defiieny (or defiienies); (2) Improvement(s) the employee must mke to ttin stisftory performne; (3) The tion(s) the Ageny will tke to help the employee improve; nd (4) A resonle time frme within whih the employee hs to improve the uneptle performne prior to Ageny tion. While the performne improvement period requirements stted ove in suprgrph. re not pplile to protionry employees, the Ageny my elet to utilize those, or other similr proedures, to ssist protionry employees to improve their performne. Setion 7 Notie. An employee whose removl is proposed under this setion is entitled to: d e Thirty (30) dys dvne written notie of the proposed tion whih identifies: (1) speifi instnes of uneptle performne y the employee on whih the proposed tion is sed; nd (2) the ritil elements of the employee s position involved in eh instne of uneptle performne; A opy of the doumentry evidene, if ny, relied upon in proposing the tion; Be represented y n ttorney nd/or other representtive; A resonle time to nswer orlly nd in writing; nd A written deision whih, in the se of removl under this setion, speifies the instnes of the employee s uneptle performne on whih the removl is sed nd the employee s rights under the pproprite grievne nd/or ppel proedures. 34

43 Setion 8 Removl Bsed on Uneptle Performne. Brgining unit memers my not e removed exept for suh just nd suffiient use s will promote the effiieny of the servie, unless pproprite dministrtive or judiil uthority determines tht Title 5, United Sttes Code, Chpter 43, is pplile. The Ageny my elet, t its disretion, other pproprite tion in lieu of removl. Setion 9 Assoition Assistne. The Prties reognize tht, exept for the initil supervisor/employee meeting t the eginning of the shool yer when the performne pprisl pln is reviewed, ll susequent performne meetings re generlly not forml disussions to whih the requirements of Setion 3 of Artile 6 re pplile. Nevertheless, the Ageny reognizes tht in mny instnes ttendne of n employee s Assoition representtive my filitte the meeting, ontriute to improving the employee s performne, nd/or ssist the employee in understnding the performne issues. As suh, the Ageny offiil my llow for the presene of n Assoition representtive. 35

44 Setion 1 Authority. ARTICLE 16. DUES ALLOTMENTS The employer shll dedut Assoition dues from the py of ll eligile employees who voluntrily uthorize suh dedutions in ordne with the provisions set forth herein. Setion 2 Pyroll Dedution. Brgining unit employees my hve their Assoition dues deduted through pyroll dedution provided: d The employee is memer in good stnding of the Assoition; The employee hs ompleted n SF-1187, Request for Pyroll Dedutions for Lor Orgniztion Dues. This form my e sumitted nd dues withheld t ny time in ordne with Setion 4. of this Artile; The employee reeives py on the regulrly sheduled pydys; nd suh py is suffiient, fter ll dedutions required y lwful uthority, to over the full mount of the dues llotment; nd During ny py period in whih there re insuffiient funds in n employee s pyhek to over dues-withholding, no withholding will e deduted from tht py period. A list of employees hving insuffiient funds for dues-withholding purposes will e furnished to the FEA-SR Are Diretor. The Ageny will not e responsile for olleting dues not withheld due to insuffiient funds. Setion 3 Assoition Responsiilities. The Assoition grees to: d e f g Notify the Defense Finne nd Aounting Servie (DFAS), or the serviing pyroll offie in writing of the mount of Assoition dues y Septemer 15 nd ny hnges in the dues mount therefter; Notify the DFAS or serviing pyroll offie in writing of the nme nd ddress of the pyee to whom the remittne hek should e mde; Provide the stndrd llotment forms, SF-1187, to unit memers s requested; Forwrd ny ompleted SF-1187 forms to the Lol Shool System pyroll tehniin. The Ageny s oligtion to dedut dues does not ommene until reeipt of the employee s ompleted SF Yerly SF-1187s re not required; Notify the designted DDESS Are Servie Center Lor Reltions Speilist promptly nd in writing if n employee eses to e memer in good stnding; Assist the Ageny in resolving ny lims nd disputes rising y reson of the Assoition s tions relting to the mount of dues- withholding; nd Reimurse the ffeted employee(s) when n exess mount of dues dedution is tken from n employee s py. 36

45 Setion 4 Ageny Responsiilities. The Ageny grees to: d e Promptly proess voluntry dues llotments in the mount ertified y the Assoition; Withhold dues in equl mounts over fifteen (15) full py periods eginning with the first pyhek fter Otoer 15. For ll new requests for pyroll dedution, if the SF-1187, Request for Pyroll Dedutions for Lor Orgniztion Dues, is sumitted y Septemer 15, dues will e deduted in fifteen (15) full py periods eginning with the first pyhek fter Otoer 15. If the SF-1187 is sumitted fter Septemer 15, the dues dedution will egin the first full py period fter sumission of the SF-1187 ut not erlier thn Otoer 15. If less thn fifteen (15) full py periods remin in the py yer fter sumission of the SF-1187, the Ageny will ollet the norml dues mount (1/15 th of the totl dues llotment mount) from eh remining full py period. The Assoition will ssume responsiility for olletion from the employees of ny dues mount not withheld s result of there eing less thn 15 full py periods in the py yer remining fter sumission of the SF-1187; Trnsmit funds (remittne heks, eletroni fund trnsfer, et.) to the FEA Stteside Region for dues withheld for its ount. The trnsmittl shll e mde no lter thn ten (10) workdys following the dy tht the relted slries were pid to the unit memers. Suh remittnes will e mde to the Assoition offier designted in writing y the FEA-SR Are Diretor of the Assoition. Remittnes shll show the nmes of prtiipting unit memers, the DDESS lol shool Distrit ssigned, the mounts withheld, nd the py period from whih dedutions were mde; Mintin SF-1188s (Cnelltion of Pyroll Dedutions for Lor Orgniztion Dues) nd furnish the forms to unit memers upon request; nd Expeditiously orret government error in the dues-withholding proess. Errors in remittne heks will e orreted nd djusted in susequent hek. Setion 5 Revotion of Dues-Withholding. Employees my revoke their dues-withholding y sumitting n SF-1188 to the Lol Shool System pyroll tehniin, or serviing pyroll offie. After the initil one (1) yer period of dues withholding, the Ageny will honor ny dues revotion sumitted etween August 15 nd Septemer 15 of eh shool yer. Untimelysumitted dues revotion requests reeived y the Ageny will e promptly returned to the employee. Setion 6 Termintion of Dues-Withholding Allotment. An llotment for n employee will e terminted t the end of the py period during whih n employee is seprted from the Ageny s rolls through trnsfer, retirement, resigntion, deth, or for use. Allotments for ll employees will e utomtilly terminted in the event exlusive reognition is no longer orded to the Assoition. In the event the Ageny either improperly revokes or termintes dues-withholding, the Ageny will immeditely restrt the dues-withholding if ny py periods remin. If insuffiient py periods remin to over the full mount of the dues withholding, the Ageny grees to py only the mount of dues ffeted y the error. 37

46 Setion 7 Indemnifition. The Assoition shll indemnify nd hold the Ageny hrmless ginst ny liility for tions tken y the Ageny in reline upon signed uthoriztion rds or forms furnished y the Assoition for the purpose of pyroll dedution of dues. 38

47 Setion 1 Orienttion. ARTICLE 17. ORIENTATION AND CERTIFICATION The Ageny will provide n orienttion to ll new rgining unit memers t the time of hire. During this orienttion, the Ageny will provide the memer opy of his/her position desription, slry shedule, written notie of enefits, opy of the Mster Lor Agreement, nd informtion onerning the employee s performne pprisl. Setion 2 Certifition nd Reertifition. d The Ageny shll determine the requirements for ertifition nd reertifition for ll unit employees. All employees re required to e ertified t the time of hiring nd reertified s pproprite. The Ageny my elet to hire or ple employees without proper ertifition, ut this deision is nongrievle. The Ageny shll require proof from ll unit employees tht they re in possession of urrent, vlid ertifite. The Ageny my initite pproprite orretive tion, inluding removl, when unit employees fil to meet ertifition requirements. The Ageny will give the employee twelve (12) months dvne written notifition of reertifition requirements. Suh notifition shll lso dvise employees tht if reertifition requirements re not omplished in the stted time frme, they my e sujet to removl. Setion 3 DDESS Uniform Certifition. Professionl ertifition nd reertifition of professionl rgining unit memers will e in ompline with DODEA Regultion , DODEA Edutor Liensure Progrm, nd DDESS Poliy Letter , Certifition of Edution Professionls Assigned to DDESS. 39

48 Setion 1 Workdy. ARTICLE 18. HOURS OF WORK AND SCHEDULING The shool workdy for rgining unit memers shll onsist of seven nd one-hlf (7 ½) hours inluding minimum of 30-minute duty-free lunh period. No ompenstory time will e erned for loss of duty-free lunh period. Unit employees re expeted to perform dditionl preprtion nd professionl tsks neessry for ompletion of their ssigned work. This work my e performed either t or wy from the work site. The workdy for prt-time rgining unit memers shll e estlished s needed to meet the needs of the Ageny. Typilly, prt-time employee sheduled to work more thn four (4) hours per dy will reeive 30-minute non-pid duty-free lunh period. In ddition to the workdy, rgining unit memers my e required to ttend one (1) meeting per week up to one-hlf (1/2) hour pst the workdy without dditionl ompenstion nd three (3) evening meeting/events per shool yer without dditionl ompenstion. Setion 2 Personl Plnning nd Preprtion. d Eh rgining unit employee with instrutionl duties shll hve minimum of 225 minutes per work week (5 dys) for personl plnning nd preprtion purposes. The Prties gree tht the intent of susetion. ove is tht eh full-time rgining unit employee with instrutionl duties shll, to the mximum extent possile, hve the personl plnning nd preprtion (desried in 2.. ove) during the instrutionl dy. The loss of personl plnning period s result of hnge in the instrutionl dy suh s ssemlies, field dys, speil events, eremonies, field trips, erly relese for students, or emergenies (dverse wether, om threts, fire drills, instlltion-imposed thret onditions, nd the like) will not e ompensted. In ddition, ompenstion will not e provided for Ageny-direted loss of one (1) personl plnning period for ny one employee per instrutionl qurter. In the se of mngement-direted loss of personl plnning periods eyond the onditions desried in the two preeding sentenes, the rgining unit memer will reeive ompenstory time in ordne with Artile 20, Setion 5. Setion 3 Work Yer. The work yer will onsist of 190 work dys. The 190 dys re to e lloted s follows: (1) 180 instrutionl dys; nd (2) 10 non-instrutionl dys to e used for orienttion, stff development, reord keeping, nd/or prent/teher onferenes. The Ageny is free to ssign dditionl workdys; ny dditionl workdys for full-time rgining unit memers (with the exeption of Summer Shool nd Extended Shool Yer Progrms) will e seven nd one-hlf (7½) hours with py sed upon n eight (8) hour dy. When dditionl 40

49 workdys re ssigned, the rgining unit employee will e ompensted t his/her erned hourly rte of py. d The Ageny is lso free to ssign dditionl work hours. When dditionl work hours re ssigned, the rgining unit employee will e ompensted y the Ageny t either the employee s erned hourly rte or with ompenstory time. The Ageny grees to mke resonle efforts to provide rgining unit employees suffiient time to set up nd lose down their respetive lssrooms t the eginning nd the end of the shool yer. However, the Ageny reserves the right to ssign duties on ny prtiulr dy of the work yer. Setion 4 Clss Size. The Ageny retins the right to determine lss size. Clss-size determintions will e dependent on ville resoures s well s regionl redittion geny guidelines. The Prties reognize the importne of working towrd ntionlly reognized stndrds for lss sizes nd tht the hievement of those stndrds is worthwhile gol. Setion 5 Shool Clendrs. The Ageny grees to onsider lol Assoition input prior to dopting shool lendr nd rgin impt nd implementtion in ordne with Chpter 71 of Title 5. All unit employees will reeive opy of the respetive shool distrit-pproved lendr. Five (5) dys will e designted s potentil mke-up dys on the shool lendr in the event of missed instrutionl dys. Setion 6 In-Servie Progrms nd Stff Development. The Ageny grees to meet nd onsult with the lol Assoition when plnning in- servie progrms nd stff development ourses nd rgin impt nd implementtion in ordne with Chpter 71 of Title 5. 41

50 Setion 1 Trining. ARTICLE 19. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT In ses where it is onsidered pproprite to hold workshops/in-servie sessions/trining on shool-wide or Distrit-wide sis, the Ageny will inform the lol Assoition President regrding suh trining. The Prties gree tht the terms shool-wide nd Distrit-wide inlude trining involving ll employees oupying given type of position, i.e., ll third grde tehers, ll speil edution tehers, ll nurses, et. Setion 2 Conferene Attendne. d e The Ageny shll onsider ll requests for ttendne t edutionl lsses, professionl onferenes, seminrs, workshops, onventions, nd professionl in-servie trining sessions for individul development whih enefit the Ageny. The Ageny my py ll or prt of the rgining unit employee s expenses t the disretion of the Ageny in ordne with the Joint Trvel Regultions (JTR). Upon notifition of ville onferene(s), the Ageny will dvise the Assoition nd the unit memers of the onferene(s) long with the dte(s) nd time(s). The Assoition nd/or individul rgining unit employees my inform the Ageny of ville onferenes s well nd reeive the sme onsidertion. All rgining unit employees who desire to ttend onferene shll sumit requests to their respetive prinipl or supervisor. Upon endorsement y the prinipl or supervisor, the Superintendent or designee my pprove requests for onferene ttendne sed upon the needs nd resoures of the Ageny. Exused leve, in ordne with Artile 21, my e grnted for onferene ttendne t the disretion of the Ageny. Upon prior written pprovl, for the purposes of professionl development, employees my e permitted to visit other edutionl institutions, usinesses / government genies, or ples of historil interest, deemed y the Ageny to e of exeptionl edutionl vlue in onnetion with their tehing position. Setion 3 Trvel. The Ageny shll ide y requirements outlined in Volume II of the Joint Trvel Regultions when employees re pproved in dvne to ttend edutionl lsses, seminrs, workshops, onventions, professionl onferenes, nd other professionl in-servie trining sessions for individul development t government or personl expense. Aordingly, employees my, with the dvne pprovl of the Ageny, e pled on permissive trvel orders to ttend suh sessions t the employee s expense. 42

51 Setion 1 Slry. ARTICLE 20. PAY AND BENEFITS Assoition memers will e pid for Shool Yer ording to the slry shedules t Appendix F. In ny susequent shool yer overed y this Agreement, the py shedules ontined in Appendix F will e inresed y three (3) perent. Setion 2 Py Yer. d For Shool Yer , the py yer will egin on 26 June 2005 nd extend for 26 full iweekly py periods through 24 June For Shool Yer , the py yer will egin on 25 June 2006 nd extend for 27 full i-weekly py periods through 7 July For Shool Yer , the py yer will egin on 8 July 2007 nd extend for 26 full i-weekly py periods through 5 July For Shool Yer , the py yer will egin on 6 July 2008 nd extend for 26 full iweekly py periods through 4 July For ny susequent py yers whih my e overed y this greement, the py yer will egin the first dy of the first py period following ompletion of the previous py yer nd extend for 26 full iweekly py periods. The 3% nnul inrese will e effetive on the first dy of eh py yer. Steps 1 through 29 of the slry shedules re nnul step inreses pyle upon ompletion of one (1) yer of servie in the prior step. For oth full-time nd prt-time employees, step inreses will e effetive the first dy of eh py yer. (1) For full-time employees yer of servie is defined s no fewer thn 120 work dys. (2) For prt-time employees, yer of servie is defined s minimum of 900 hours in py sttus t the prior step. Hours in py sttus re umultive nd will e trked from py yer to py yer until the rgining unit memer ompletes the required 900 hours required for dvnement to the next step. An employee my, fter ompletion of 900 hours, sumit written request tht their py e set t the next py step. Upon reeipt of the written request, the Ageny will verify if the dt is orret, nd then proess the tion mking the effetive dte the next py period following sumission of the request. If no written request is sumitted, the step inrese will eome effetive t the strt of the next shool yer. (3) One rgining unit memer dvnes to the next step, he/she must e in py sttus minimum of 900 hours t the new step prior to eing eligile for dvnement to the next step. Setion 3 Py Setting. Prior experiene for py setting purposes will e orded for the life of the MLA s refleted on the mtrix t Appendix E. Py setting for rgining unit memers hired prior to 4 July 1999 will e in ordne with Setion 3.. of Artile 20 of the originl Mster Lor Agreement, nd qurter hours erned prior to 4 July 1999 will e treted s equivlent to semester hours. Brgining unit employees hired fter 4 July 1999 will hve their py set ording to the following: 43

52 (1) Employees will e pled in the py lne ommensurte with degree, or degree plus semester hours (or equivlent qurter hours), erned from regionlly redited ollege or university. (Qurter hours erned prior to 4 July 1999 will e treted s equivlent to semester hours). (2) Py will then e set ording to their yers of experiene s follows: Credit for ll yers of previous DoDEA (DODDS nd DDESS) or other reditle Federl ivilin tehing experiene, plus redit for mximum of five (5) yers of non- federl tehing experiene. d All rgining unit employees will reeive py lne djustments s follows: (1) Py lne djustments will e mde upon reeipt y the Ageny of n offiil opy of trnsript inditing ourse work ompletion or wrd of n dvned degree from regionlly redited ollege or university. If the ollege or university does not identify the dte ourse work ws ompleted, rgining unit employees my provide offiil grde reports or other pproprite offiil doumenttion from the ollege or university in onjuntion with the trnsript to estlish the dte on whih ourse hours were ompleted. (2) Py lne djustments sed upon ompletion of degree plus hours mens semester hours. Qurter hours will e onverted to semester hours on 3 to 5 sis (i.e., 3 semester hours equls 5 qurter hours). (3) Py lne hnges will e retrotive for py purposes to the eginning of the py period following reeipt of trnsript refleting wrd of the degree or ompletion of oursework, provided the employee sumits the request for py lne hnge within one-hundred twenty (120) dys of wrd of the degree or ompletion of the oursework. If the employee does not sumit the request for py lne hnge nd supporting trnsript(s) within this time period, the py lne hnge shll e effetive t the eginning of the py period following sumission. Setion 4 Proedures. Py nd enefits shll e provided in ordne with the pyroll nd leve ounting proedures set out in Deprtment of Defense Finnil Mngement Regultion, Volume 8, Civilin Py, Poliy nd Proedures. Setion 5 Compenstory Time. Employees will not reeive multiple forms of ompenstion for the sme period of work, i.e., not reeive oth si py nd ompenstory time for the sme period of work, not reeive ompenstory time nd dditionl pyment t erned hourly rte for the sme period of work, not reeive ompenstory time nd EDA pyment for the sme period of work, et. Employees normlly must use time efore the end of the shool yer in whih it ws erned. (1) If the employee fils to request to use the ompenstory time within the estlished time frme, the ompenstory time will e forfeited; nd ompenstion for the ompenstory time will not e pid. (2) If the employee requests to use the ompenstory time within the estlished time frme nd the request were denied due to work requirements, the employee my e ompensted t rte of twenty-five (25) perent ove the employee s si/erned rte of py. 44

53 When ompenstory time is erned fter 1 April of eh shool yer nd nnot e used due to work requirements prior to the end of the shool yer in whih erned, the employee my request suh ompenstory time e rried over to the following shool yer. If the employee fils to request to use the ompenstory time within the estlished time frme, the ompenstory time will e forfeited; nd ompenstion for the ompenstory time will not e pid. If the employee requests to use the ompenstory time within the estlished time frme nd the request were denied due to work requirements, the employee my e ompensted t rte of twenty-five (25) perent ove the employee s si/erned rte of py. Setion 6 Extrurriulr Duty Assignments/Py. d e Extrurriulr duty ssignments shll e open to ll rgining unit employees. Shool yer or sesonl extrurriulr ssignments will e mde on fir nd equitle sis. The Ageny will post list of ll extrurriulr tivities whih shll inlude the following informtion: (1) The speifi ssignment; (2) The mount of ompenstion; (3) The losing dte for reeipt of pplitions; nd (4) The pproximte dte seletions will e mde. An employee my sumit reommendtion for n unlisted extrurriulr tivity to his/her supervisor. The Ageny, t its disretion, will deide whether to pprove the tivity. The DDESS Diretor, or designee, nd the Assoition Are Diretor will then determine the rte of ompenstion t whih the extrurriulr tivity will e pid. An employee seleted to perform n extrurriulr tivity will exeute the Agreement tthed s Appendix G. Compenstion for performing extrurriulr tivities will e proessed following ompletion of the tivity, will e in ordne with the shedule tthed s Appendix H, nd will e pid in single pyment. Upon reeipt of notifition from n employee tht n extrurriulr tivity hs een ompleted, the supervisor will promptly verify whether the employee hs stisftorily ompleted the extrurriulr tivity. If verified, the supervisor will promptly initite required tion to effet pyment to the employee. Setion 7 Method of Pyment. All DDESS employees re required to prtiipte in eletroni fund trnsfer s the stndrd method of pyment in ordne with the Det Colletion Improvement At of All permnent DDESS employees will e pid over 26 py periods. 45

54 Temporry employees, who either egn temporry ppointment y the first dy of Novemer of given shool yer or who re on temporry ppointment from the previous shool yer nd who re expeted to ontinue employment throughout the entire shool yer, shll hve their py spred so tht they re pid over the period of the shool yer. Temporry employees who do not meet the ove stted riteri will e pid t their erned hourly rte of py nd will not hve their py spred. Setion 8 Summer Shool Py. Brgining unit memers employed for summer shool will e pid t their erned hourly rte nd will reeive their py on i-weekly sis. 46

55 ARTICLE 21. LEAVE Setion 1 Generl Provisions. d e f All leve will e front-loded t the eginning of eh shool yer for ll rgining unit employees. Mngement reserves the right to require ll rgining unit memers to sumit ompleted SF-71 for ll leve. Only employees in py sttus will rue leve. The only exeption to the preeding sentene will e for FEA At-Lrge Offiers eleted from the DDESS rgining unit who use leve without py to ttend FEA Bord meetings, workshops, trining nd the like, pursunt to Artile 6, Setion 15. When n employee who is indeted for unerned leve is seprted, the Ageny reserves the right to: (1) Require him/her to refund the mount pid for the period overing the leve for whih he/she is indeted; or (2) Dedut tht mount from ny py due. All leve for full workdy s sene will e deduted sed upon n eight (8) hour workdy. Leve for less thn full workdy s sene will e deduted sed upon tul hours sent from the work site. When the lunh period is in onjuntion with prtil workdy s sene, the mount of leve hrged will exlude the lunh period. Sik nd personl leve my e tken in fifteen (15) minute inrements. g. Sik nd personl leve will e front-loded t the eginning of the shool yer for oth full nd prt-time employees. Setion 2 Sik Leve. Full-time employees shll ern twelve (12) dys of sik leve per shool yer. Prt-time employees nd employees who work for less thn the full shool yer shll rue leve on pro-rted sis. Sik leve shll rue t the rte of hours for every one hour the employee is in py sttus during the shool yer, up to mximum of 96 hours of sik leve rued per shool yer. Sik leve my e grnted to employees on sheduled workdys for the following resons: (1) When n employee is inpitted nd unle to perform his/her duties due to sikness, injury, or mternity; (2) For employee medil, dentl, optil, or psyhologil exmintion or tretment; (3) When the employee is exposed to ontgious disese, s determined y the lol helth uthorities, nd the presene of the employee in the workple would jeoprdize the helth of o-workers or students; (4) Illness or deth in the employee s immedite fmily in ordne with 5 C.F.R. 630; (5) For other resons uthorized y 5 C.F.R

56 d A rgining unit employee my e required y his/her supervisor to provide physiin s sttement, or n SF-71 ompleted y physiin, for ny sik leve of more thn four (4) onseutive dys. This requirement is to enourge employees to seek medil tretment for illnesses requiring sene from work. If the Ageny hs reson to suspet use of sik leve, physiin s sttement or n SF-71 my e required for ny period of sene. Sik leve my e umulted from yer-to-yer nd is trnsferle to other government genies. Brgining unit employees my e dvned up to mximum of twelve (12) dys or 96 hours of sik leve in ny one py yer. Dispprovl of requests for dvned sik leve my not e grieved under the provisions of Artile 26 of this Agreement. Brgining unit memers, who t the eginning of new py yer hve negtive leve lne s result of using dvned sik leve, will hve their sik leve ount djusted to repy the mount of dvned leve. When rgining unit memer (who is indeted s result of dvned sik leve) is seprted, he/she is sujet to the provisions for repyment speified in Setion 1.d. ove. Permnent nd temporry employees who re re-employed will hve their most reent sik leve lne re-redited upon reeipt of doumenttion of their prior sik leve lne. Suh sik leve will e re-redited regrdless of the Federl geny in whih the sik leve ws originlly rued nd regrdless of the length of the rek in servie. Setion 3 Personl Leve. d Eh full-time rgining unit employee shll ern three (3) dys of personl leve to e used for ny purpose nd is never oligted to stte the reson for requesting suh leve. Personl leve will rue t the rte of hours for every one hour the employee is in py sttus during the shool yer, up to mximum of 24 hours of personl leve per shool yer. Eh prt-time rgining unit employee nd eh employee who works less thn the full shool yer shll ern the pro-rted mount of personl leve. Eleven (11) month employees nd summer shool employees shll ern n dditionl one-hlf (½) dy of personl leve per yer. Other rgining unit employees who work minimum of 10 dditionl work dys (80 hours on dditionl work dys) during reess period per py/leve yer shll rue dditionl personl leve t the rte of hours for every one hour the employee is in py sttus. Personl leve must e requested in dvne y the employee nd pproved y the Ageny. Employees re never required to stte the reson for requesting suh leve. Whenever possile, personl leve will e requested in writing t lest two (2) dys efore the dtes desired. Personl leve requested to e used on the dy efore or the dy fter holidy or sheduled vtion dy my e grnted if the supervisor determines tht it does not interfere with shool opertions. Personl leve my e umulted from yer-to-yer, not to exeed six (6) dys. Employees will not e ompensted for unused personl leve. However, unused personl leve in exess of six (6) dys will e onverted to sik leve. At no time will rgining unit memer s personl leve lne exeed six (6) dys. 48

57 e f Brgining unit employees my e dvned up to mximum of three (3) dys or 24 hours of personl leve in ny one py yer. Dispprovl of requests for dvned personl leve my not e grieved under the provisions of Artile 26 of this Agreement. Brgining unit memers, who t the eginning of new py yer hve negtive leve lne s result of using dvned personl leve, will hve their personl leve ount djusted to repy the mount of dvned leve. When rgining unit memer (who is indeted s result of dvned personl leve) is seprted, he/she is sujet to the provisions for repyment speified in Setion 1.d. ove. Permnent nd temporry employees who re re-employed with less thn fifteen (15) month rek in servie will hve their personl leve lne from the most reent prior period of employment re-redited upon reeipt of the reord of their prior personl leve lne. Suh prior employment must hve een within DDESS. Brgining unit memers who hve personl leve reredited will hve their personl leve trnsferred to sik leve in instnes where the totl leve lne will exeed six (6) dys. Setion 4 Exused Leve. Exused leve my e grnted t the disretion of the Ageny to employees, with no hrge to their personl leve ounts, for the following resons: (1) Blood dontions for whih the employee is not ompensted; (2) Adverse wether onditions, ts of nture, militry neessity, or other irumstnes eyond the ontrol of the Ageny; (3) Jury duty; (4) Approved lte rrivls or erly deprtures not to exeed 59 minutes; (5) Conferene ttendne; nd (6) Other resons s pproved y the Ageny. A supervisor my grnt exused leve only on non-reourring sis. Setion 5 Leve Without Py. Leve without py my e grnted, t the disretion of the Ageny, to employees for the following resons: Birth of hild of the employee nd/or the re of neworn, plement of hild with the employee for doption or foster re, the re of spouse, hild, step-hild, or prent of the employee for serious helth ondition; Professionl onferenes nd edutionl purposes s pproved y the Ageny; or Leve without py my e uthorized, t the disretion of the Ageny, in irumstnes other thn those set out ove. 49

58 Setion 6 Fmily nd Medil Leve. Leve under the Fmily nd Medil Leve At (FMLA) will e in ordne with pplile OPM nd Ageny regultions. Brgining unit memers should onsult with their supervisor when requesting leve pursunt to FMLA. Setion 7 Militry Leve. Militry leve, with py, shll e grnted to rgining unit memers who serve in the Ntionl Gurd or Reserve omponents of the U.S. Armed Fores in ordne with governing sttutes. Setion 8 Voluntry Leve Trnsfer Progrm. The Ageny will provide employees the opportunity to prtiipte in the Voluntry Leve Trnsfer Progrm under 5 C.F.R. 630, Suprt I, nd pplile Ageny regultions (DDESS Instrution ). Sik leve, in ddition to personl leve, my e donted under this progrm. Setion 9 Emergeny Leve Bnk. d e An Emergeny Leve Bnk (ELB) will e estlished t eh DDESS shool distrit for use y ll rgining unit employees for medil emergenies, tstrophi illness, or injury experiened y the memer. All rgining unit employees my join the nk y ontriuting t lest one (1) sik or personl leve dy nd ompleting the form ontined t Appendix I. The ELB my rry over ll unused hours to the following shool yer. Prtiiption in the ELB y rgining unit employees will require dontion of one (1) dy of sik or personl leve during the first thirty (30) dys of employment or upon open seson s determined y the ELB Committee. At the need to replenish the ELB, employees my volunteer to ontriute nother dy of leve to ontinue eligiility. An employee requesting dys from the ELB must use the form ontined in Appendix J. nd hs exhusted ll leve whih n e used for the nture of the emergeny suh tht the employee is in non-py sttus. The ELB Committee will onsist of one Ageny offiil ppointed y the Superintendent nd two employees seleted y the Lol Assoition President. The ELB Committee will mke deisions on ll requests for leve from the ELB. The requestor will furnish ompleted employee request form nd written physiin s sttement, s ontined in Appendix J, demonstrting the need for dditionl leve to over medil emergeny. A mjority vote y the ELB Committee memers pproving the leve is required to grnt leve from the ELB. Deisions y the ELB Committee re not sujet to the grievne proess. 50

59 f g h i j k Any rgining unit employee prtiipting in the ELB will e limited to withdrwl from the nk of up to totl of forty (40) work- dys in suession. When n illness extends eyond forty (40) work- dys, the rgining unit memer my re-pply to the ELB Committee for further onsidertion of dditionl leve. The ELB Committee will monitor the mount of leve remining in the nk nd shll fford the opportunity to ll rgining unit employees to voluntrily ontriute to replenish the nk during n open seson. Deprting employees my donte up to forty-eight (48) hours of unused leve to the ELB. All dontions of leve to the ELB re finl when donted nd nnot e restored to the employee. Unused leve donted prior to the effetive dte of this Agreement will e trnsferred to the ELBs estlished pursunt to setion 9.. ove. The ELB Committee my elet to open one (1) window of two-weeks durtion during eh shool yer when employees who hve previously not eleted to prtiipte in the ELB my hoose to do so y donting one (1) dy of sik or personl leve to the nk. This two-week window is purely for the purpose of llowing employees who previously did not elet to prtiipte in the ELB n opportunity to do so. Employees who previously eleted to prtiipte in the nk y donting one (1) dy of sik or personl leve will not e required to donte nother dy of leve to ontinue eligiility to prtiipte in the ELB, unless there is need to replenish the ELB. Setion 10 Edutionl Leve. Brgining unit memers my pply nnully (sujet to ny dditionl riteri stted elow) for ny or ll of the following Ageny edutionl leve progrms: (1) Yerlong Edutionl Leve t Hlf Py; (2) Leve Without Py (LWOP) for Edutionl Purposes; nd (3) Administrtive Reemployment Rights (ARR) Progrm. To e eligile for the Yerlong Edutionl Leve Progrm, n employee must e serving on permnent ppointment s professionl edutor with three (3) yers of onseutive servie with the Ageny. Those employees pplying for the LWOP or ARR progrms must e serving on permnent ppointments nd hve ompleted five (5) yers of onseutive servie with DDESS sine their lst period of edutionl LWOP or ARR. All seletions for edutionl leve progrms will e mde y the DDESS Diretor or his/her designee. Any suh deision is not grievle under Artile 26 of this Agreement. 51

60 d Seletions for ll Ageny edutionl leve progrms will reflet the Ageny s system-wide needs nd e tilored towrds hieving the gols nd enhmrks outlined in the Community Strtegi Pln. Additionlly, seletions will reflet the Ageny s need for edutors who re multi-qulified in severl res to provide neessry stffing flexiility in the smller shool distrits. Aordingly, priority onsidertion will e given to edutors who propose ourse of study resulting in ertifition in nother demi re. Nothing in this setion is intended to prevent the Ageny from hnging its edutionl progrms. e Following ompletion of ny of the Ageny edutionl leve progrms s desried in Appendix K. rgining unit memers will e ssigned to positions or duties within his or her previous shool distrit in whih they utilize the skills nd knowledge quired nd n t s resoure persons for in-servie trining. Any suh ssignments following ompletion of the progrm re not grievle under Artile 26 of the Agreement. f All rgining unit memers who wish to pply for ny of the Ageny edutionl leve progrms must omplete n pplition/ greement form s ontined in Appendix K. Completed pplitions must e reeived t the DDESS Diretor s Offie not lter thn Jnury 15 th of eh yer for demi progrms ommening the following fll. Setion 11 Jury Duty. Leve for jury or witness servie will e in ordne with 5 U.S.C. 6322, nd pplile OPM nd Ageny regultions. Setion 12 Prt-Time Employees. Prt-time rgining unit memers shll ern sik nd personl leve on prorted sis. 52

61 ARTICLE 22. REASSIGNMENTS, VACANCIES, AND TRANSFERS Setion 1 Posting Noties. When the Ageny is going to fill vnt professionl position, written dted notie of the vny shll e issued. Employees who desire to e onsidered for vny nd who re ertified nd otherwise qulified for suh vny, shll sumit written request to their urrent nd to the prospetive supervisor. A vnt position ours when professionl rgining unit position is vted y rgining unit memer or when new position is reted. d Vny noties re not required: (1) When the Ageny elets not to fill vnt position (s defined ove); (2) When suh vny is required for plement of n exess professionl employee ssigned to DDESS (either through Redution-in-Fore (RIF) proedures or to prelude the need for use of RIF proedures); or (3) When suh vny is required for plement of n employee through mndtory plement proedure or progrm suh s the DoD Priority Plement Progrm. When vnt positions within the rgining unit re to e filled through RIF s proedures, the FEA- SR Are Diretor will e provided notie of the vnt positions eing used for tht purpose. To ensure tht professionl rgining unit employees n mke informed deisions on whether to express interest in ressignment to vnt positions, ll internl vny noties must, t minimum, ontin the dte of vny nnounement, identify the speifi position to e filled y position title nd type (i.e., grde, sujet, or other identifying informtion), nd identify the lotion of the position (i.e., shool lotion). Vny noties shll e posted in pproprite lotions throughout the DDESS Shool Distrit. In ddition, the vny notie shll e distriuted, in either written or eletroni form, to eh individul unit employee nd provided to the lol Assoition President, in either written or eletroni form. Setion 2 Ressignment. Employees, who desire ressignment in shool, grde, nd/or sujet nd who re ertified nd otherwise qulified for suh ressignment, shll sumit written intent form to their immedite supervisor. The Ageny will give employees (requesting ressignment) onsidertion should the ssignment eome ville. However, the Ageny retins full disretion to determine how vny will e filled or who should e ssigned to position, sed upon the needs of the Ageny. Also, the Ageny my, t its disretion, diret ressignment of n employee. The ressignment my e from one shool lotion to nother or from one grde/sujet re to nother in the sme distrit. When the Ageny ressigns ny unit memer to new room lotion, the employee will e given t lest one (1) dy dvne notie exept in the se of n emergeny. 53

62 d e f g Prior to the Ageny involuntrily ressigning ny unit memer to new lotion, the Ageny will first onsider seeking volunteers for the ressignment. In the event rgining unit memer is seleted for n involuntry ressignment, the unit memer will e given n opportunity to provide resons why he/she should not e ressigned. The Ageny will onsider ny written request y unit memer to return to the shool lotion, grde, or sujet re from whih he/she ws ressigned. Employees who re ressigned to different shool or lssroom lotion shll reeive: (1) Pking mterils nd ssistne with pking, moving, nd unpking; (2) Aess to the shool uilding if needed; (3) One nd one-hlf (1-1/2) workdys of relese time from ssigned duties to omplish the move. Additionl relese time my e grnted t the disretion of the supervisor, if requested; nd (4) In the event the employee is direted to omplete the move outside the duty dy, the employee will e pid t his/her erned hourly rte. Employees who re ressigned to different grde (elementry grdes) or new sujet re shll reeive: (1) Pking mterils nd ssistne with pking, moving, nd unpking; (2) Aess to the shool uilding if needed; (3) One nd one-hlf (1-1/2) workdys of relese time from ssigned duties to omplish the hnge. Additionl relese time my e grnted t the disretion of the supervisor, if requested; (4) The opportunity to oserve other lsses in the re of ressignment s designted y the supervisor; nd (5) In the event the employee is direted to omplete the move outside the duty dy, the employee will e pid t his/her erned hourly rte. h When rgining unit memer is detiled to higher grded position for more thn thirty (30) dys, tht employee will then e temporrily promoted to the higher grded position eginning on the 31 st dy. (1) If temporry promotion of the rgining unit memer would dversely ffet the py of tht rgining unit memer, the Ageny, with the onurrene of the rgining unit memer, my ontinue the detil rther thn effet the promotion. Suh detil eyond thirty (30) dys will not dversely ffet the employee s py. (2) If the employee does not meet the minimum qulifitions for the higher grded position, the detil my e ontinued rther thn effeting the temporry promotion. (3) Detils eyond thirty (30) dys will e doumented in the rgining unit memer s Offiil Personnel File. Setion 3 Shool Moves. In the event the Ageny elets to relote the employees nd ontents of n entire shool, the impt nd implementtion of suh move will e rgined lolly. 54

63 Setion 4 Seletion for Summer Shool. The Ageny will first onsider ssigning urrent rgining unit employees who hve indited desire to teh summer shool prior to seeking other ndidtes. The Ageny mintins the right to selet from mong ville ndidtes. Seletion will e mde sed upon the knowledge, skills, nd ilities of the ndidtes in reltion to the duties of the position. 55

64 Setion 1 Definition. ARTICLE 23. REDUCTION IN FORCE A Redution in Fore (RIF) is the systemti wy of mking orgniztionl hnges tht provides retention preferene on the sis of tenure, vetern preferene, length of servie nd performne. Definitions of terms in this rtile re s provided for in 5 C.F.R A RIF ours whenever ompeting employee is relesed from his/her ompetitive level y furlough for more thn thirty (30) dys, seprtion, demotion, or ressignment requiring displement is required euse of: Lk of work; Shortge of funds; Insuffiient personnel eilings; d Reorgniztion; e The exerise of reemployment or restortion rights; f The relssifition of n employee s position due to the erosion of duties when suh tion will tke effet fter the forml nnounement of RIF in the ompetitive re nd the RIF will tke effet within one-hundred nd eighty (180) dys; or g Trnsfer of funtion. Setion 2 Exlusions. Ations exluded from RIF proedures re s provided for in 5 C.F.R Setion 3 Notifition to Assoition. When it is determined tht there is need for RIF, the Ageny grees to notify the Assoition of pending RIF tions s erly s possile, ut not less thn ninety (90) lendr dys prior to the sheduled effetive dte of the RIF. Suh notie shll normlly inlude the following informtion: Resons for the RIF; Numer nd types of employees to e ffeted. It is understood tht the ove informtion my hnge during the ninety (90) lendrs dy period. Setion 4 Notifition to Brgining Unit Memers. One it hs een determined tht RIF is required, rgining unit employees who will e ffeted y RIF tions will e given speifi notie t lest sixty (60) lendr dys prior to the effetive dte of the RIF. Suh notie shll ontin the following informtion nd ll other informtion required per 5 C.F.R : Ation to e tken; Resons for the tion; Personl informtion used to determine the tion; d Effetive dte for the tion; e Entitlements nd enefits; f Ple where ffeted employees nd their representtives my inspet retention registers nd relted reords pertining to the tion; nd 56

65 g Employee ppel rights. It is understood tht the ove informtion my hnge during the sixty (60) lendrs dy period. Setion 5 Competitive Are. The ompetitive re for ny RIF is defined s ll employees of Lol Shool System (shools, Distrit Superintendent s Offie, Community Superintendent s Offie) loted on militry instlltion. When there re shools on more thn one militry instlltion under the dministrtion of one Superintendent, the shools on eh militry instlltion form seprte ompetitive re unless they re in the sme ommuting re, in whih se they form one ompetitive re. Setion 6 Competitive Levels. Competitive levels shll e estlished in ordne with 5 C.F.R onsisting of ll positions in the ompetitive re whih re in the sme py pln, t the sme grde, grde equivleny or ouptionl level; re in the sme lssifition series, position tegory nd ertifition; nd whih re similr enough in duties, qulifition requirements, py shedules, nd working onditions so tht n inument of one position n e ressigned to nother position without undue interruption. Seprte ompetitive levels will e issued y type of servie (ompetitive or exepted), y ppointment uthority, y py shedule, nd y work shedule. Setion 7 Retention Register / Retention Priority. When n employee is to e relesed from ompetitive level due to RIF, retention register will e estlished for tht ompetitive level in ordne with 5 C.F.R The retention register will e prepred from urrent retention reords of employees. To provide dequte time to determine employee retention stnding, only tht informtion tht is ville t lest ninety (90) lendr dys prior to the sheduled issune of RIF noties my e used, exept to orret errors in the reord tht re disovered prior to the effetive dte of the RIF. Competing employees shll e lssified on retention register in tenure groups on the sis of their tenure of employment, vetern preferene, length of servie, nd performne in desending order s provided for in 5 CFR Tenure of employment. Competing employees shll e lssified on retention register s Group I (inludes eh permnent employee whose ppointment rries no restritions or onditions suh s onditionl, indefinite, speifi time limit, or tril period), Group II (inludes eh employee serving tril period or whose tenure is equivlent to reer-onditionl ppointment in the ompetitive servie), nd Group III (inludes eh employee whose tenure is indefinite or hs time limittion). Vetern preferene. Within eh tenure group desried in Setion 7.. ove, ompeting employees shll e lssified on the retention register sed upon vetern preferene s defined in 5 C.F.R s Sugroup AD (preferene eligiles who hve servie- onneted disility of 30 perent or more); Sugroup A (preferene eligile employees not inluded in sugroup AD), or Sugroup B (nonpreferene eligile employees). Length of servie. Eh ompeting employee s length of servie shll e estlished in ordne with 5 C.F.R

66 d Competing employees shll e relesed from ompetitive levels in the inverse order of retention stnding, eginning with the employee with the lowest retention stnding on the retention register. A ompeting employee my not e relesed from ompetitive level while retining in tht level n employee with lower retention stnding exept s provided for in 5 C.F.R Setion 8 Plement Considertions. In order to minimize the impt of RIF, onsidertion will e given to: Filing existing vnies y the plement of qulified employees who re dversely ffeted y the RIF. Terminting temporry ppointments of individuls in unffeted ompetitive levels to rete plement opportunities for qulified permnent employees (Group I or Group II employees) who re sheduled for seprtion under RIF s proedures. Setion 9 Plement Assistne. All ville nd pproprite jo plement servies will e provided to employees dversely ffeted y RIF in ordne with pproprite lw nd regultions. Suh ssistne shll inlude use of: DDESS Re-employment Priority Lists (RPL). DDESS will estlish RPLs for employees who hve een seprted due to RIF in ordne with proedures t suprt B of 5 C.F.R. Prt 330, Reemployment Priority List. It is DDESS poliy tht, if there re not qulified prt-time employees on the RPL for prtiulr prt-time position, full-time employees who hve indited vilility for prt-time work shll e pled if qulified nd interested. (1) Eligile employees will e registered on the RPLs for mximum of two (2) yers. If n employee delines vlid jo offer, his/her nme will e removed from the RPL. If full-time employee epts prt-time employment, it will e onsidered vlid jo offer; nd the employee s nme will e removed from the RPL. Aeptne of temporry ppointment will not lter permnent employee s right to e offered permnent employment. DoD Priority Plement Progrm (PPP). Employees dversely ffeted y RIF shll e registered in the DoD PPP in ordne with the DoD PPP Opertions Mnul. Setion 10 Slry Retention Provisions. Grde nd py retention shll e fforded to employees who re demoted to lower grded/pid position within DDESS in ordne with 5 C.F.R. Prt 536 nd pproprite proedures. Py retention will e grnted sed upon the employee s hourly rte of py without regrd to work shedule. An employee who is demoted nd on retined grde nd/or py shll reeive priority onsidertion for re-promotion to positions up to nd inluding the grde/py level from whih demoted. Setion 11 Severne Py. Severne py shll e pid in ordne with suprt G of 5 C.F.R. Prt 550. Setion 12 Assistne to Employees. Jo plement servies my e provided to employees dversely ffeted y the RIF, ording to pproprite lw nd regultion. 58

67 Setion 13 Review of Reords. Employees, or the employee s representtive, hve the right to review ny reords used y the Ageny in ny RIF tion tht ws tken or will e tken regrding the employee, inluding the omplete retention register with the employee s nme, so tht the employee my onsider how the ompetitive level ws onstruted nd how the reltive stnding of the ompeting employees ws determined. This lso inludes the right to review the omplete retention register (s ppropritely redted for privy onerns) for other positions tht ould ffet the omposition of the employee s ompetitive level. 59

68 ARTICLE 24. BASE CLOSURES In the event of se losure or trnsfer of shool or distrit from Federl government ontrol, the Ageny grees to notify the Assoition s soon s possile, ut not lter thn fifteen (15) dys, fter the Deprtment of Defense hs pproved relese of the informtion. The Ageny further grees to fulfill ll of its rgining oligtions under 5 U.S.C with respet to impt nd implementtion of suh losure or trnsfer. 60

69 ARTICLE 25. DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS Setion 1 Poliy. d e Disipline is the right nd the responsiility of the Ageny nd will only e tken for suh just nd suffiient use s will promote the effiieny of the servie, nd the penlty will fit the offense. Construtive disipline, to e effetive, must e timely. The results to e hieved through this mens diminish in proportion to the time llowed to elpse etween the offense nd the orretive tion. Nevertheless, the Prties gree tht suffiient time should e llowed to omplete pproprite investigtions nd ft-finding nd tht undue hste is s undesirle s undue dely. Supervisors, unit employees, Assoition representtives, nd others involved in n investigtion will not dislose ny informtion gined through suh investigtions exept in the performne of their offiil duties. Disiplinry tions will not e ritrry or priious. The Ageny reognizes the onept of progressive disipline, nd generlly tions imposed should e the minimum tht n resonly e expeted to orret nd improve employee ehvior nd mintin disipline nd morle mong other employees. A rgining unit memer who is to e questioned y DoDEA or DDESS mngement employee in onnetion with n investigtion my request representtion y the Assoition t ny time tht he/she resonly elieves tht disiplinry tion my result ginst him/her. If requested, the rgining unit memer will e entitled to e represented y n FEA ttorney, t no ost to the Ageny, nd lol Assoition representtive. If the rgining unit memer requests Assoition representtion, y n FEA ttorney, or lol Assoition representtive or oth, no questioning will tke ple until the Assoition hs een given t lest 24 hours to onfer privtely with the rgining unit memer. In no event will the rgining unit memer e permitted to dely questioning eyond 24 hours. Setion 2 Informl Disiplinry Ations. Informl disiplinry tions re orl dmonitions nd letters of ution. When suh n tion is tken y supervisor, the employee will e dvised of the speifi infrtion or reh of ondut, when it ourred, nd will e permitted to explin his/her ondut or t of ommission or omission. Suh tions will not e pled in the employee s Offiil Personnel File (OPF). Setion 3 Forml Disiplinry Ations. Forml disiplinry tions onsist of written reprimnds, suspensions, demotions, nd removls. Before forml disiplinry tion is initited, n investigtion or inquiry will e mde y the immedite supervisor or other offiil designted y the Ageny to ensure him/her of the fts of the se. A Letter of Reprimnd must stte the reson(s) for its issune, the employee s right to file grievne under the negotited grievne proedure, nd the length of time the reprimnd will remin in the OPF. A Letter of Reprimnd my remin in the OPF for period of two (2) yers. If t the end of the first yer, there hve een no further disiplinry infrtions; the employee my 61

70 request to hve the Letter of Reprimnd removed from the OPF. There is no dvne notie required efore issuing Letter of Reprimnd. The Ageny my hoose to not disipline n employee or my selet lower rnge of remedies nd/or lower pproprite remedy thn provided in the Shedule of Offenses nd Reommended Remedies. Whenever forml disiplinry tion is initited ginst unit employee tht involves suspension of fourteen (14) dys or less, the following proedurl requirements shll pply: (1) The unit employee must e given no less thn fourteen (14) dys written notie of the proposed tion. (2) The notie shll: () Stte, in detil, the reson(s) for the proposed tion; () Provide the employee with opy of the mteril relied upon for the proposed tion; () Inform the unit employee of the right to reply orlly or in writing, or oth, within ten (10) workdys fter reeipt of the notie of proposed tion, nd the nme nd title of the offiil designted to her n orl reply nd/or reeive written reply; (d) Stte tht finl deision of the proposed tion will not e mde until fter reeipt of the unit employee s reply or fter the ten (10) workdy notie period, desried in ove, whihever omes first; nd (e) Inform the unit employee wht duty sttus he/she will e in pending deision on the proposed tion. (3) Notie of Finl Deision. The unit employee shll reeive notie of finl deision t the erliest possile dte following the ten (10) dy reply period. The notie of finl deision shll e signed nd dted nd shll inform the unit employee of: () The reson(s) for the deision; () The effetive dte of the tion; nd () His/her rights under the negotited grievne proedure. d Whenever unit employee is furloughed for thirty (30) dys or less, redued in py, removed, or suspended for more thn fourteen (14) dys, the following proedures shll pply: (1) Issune of Advne Notie. The unit employee will e given thirty (30) dys dvne notie of the proposed dverse tion. The dvne notie shll: () Stte, in detil, the reson(s) for the tion; () Provide the employee with opy of the mteril relied upon for the proposed tion; () Inform the unit employee of his/her right to reply orlly or in writing, or oth, within twenty (20) dys from reeipt of the notie of proposed tion, nd the nme nd title of the offiil designted to her n orl reply nd/or reeive written reply; (d) Stte tht finl deision of the proposed tion will not e mde until fter reeipt of the unit employee s reply or fter the twenty (20) dy period, whihever omes first; nd 62

71 (e) Inform the unit employee of the duty sttus he/she will remin in pending deision on the proposed tion. (2) An employee my e pled on exused leve or ressigned during the dvne notie period t the sole option of the Ageny. Suh deision is not grievle. (3) Notie of Finl Deision. The unit employee shll reeive notie of finl deision t the erliest possile dte following the notie period. The notie of finl deision shll e signed nd dted nd shll inform the employee of the following: () Whih of the resons in the proposed notie hve een found sustined; () The effetive dte of the tion; nd () His/her rights under the pproprite grievne nd/or ppel proedures. e Employees to whom notie of proposed disiplinry tion hs een issued re lso entitled to: (1) A resonle mount of offiil time to review the notie nd supporting mteril, to prepre n nswer nd to seure ffidvits, medil doumenttion, nd other doumentry evidene, if the employee is otherwise in duty sttus; nd (2) Be represented y n ttorney nd/or other representtive. Setion 4 Rights of Protioners. The proedurl rights desried in Setion 3.d. ove do not pply to the dishrge or seprtion of n employee during protionry period. Setion 5 Duty Sttus. In the event notie period is not ompleted prior to the eginning of the reess period, the ffeted unit employee my e rried in duty sttus until the end of the notie period in order to omplete the proess. Otherwise, time limits do not run during ny reess period. Setion 6 Reltionship to DDESS Instrution. The provisions of this Agreement will e ontrolling when in onflit with DDESS Administrtive Instrution

72 Setion 1 Purpose. ARTICLE 26. GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE The purpose of this Artile is to provide proedure for onsidertion of grievnes y rgining unit employees. The filing of grievne shll not e onstrued s refleting unfvorly on n employee s good stnding, his/her performne, or his/her loylty or desirility to the orgniztion, nor shll it e regrded s n unfvorle refletion upon the Ageny or its offiils. Setion 2 Coverge. This proedure pplies to unit employees nd shll e the exlusive proedure for resolving grievnes tht fll within its overge. A grievne mens ny omplint: (1) y unit employee onerning ny mtter relting to the employment of tht employee; (2) y the Assoition onerning ny mtter relting to the employment of ny unit employee(s); or (3) y unit employee, the Assoition, or the Ageny onerning: () the effet or interprettion or lim of reh of this Agreement; or () ny limed violtion, misinterprettion of ny lw, rule, or regultion ffeting working onditions of employment. This proedure shll not pply to ny grievne onerning: (1) ny limed violtion of Suhpter III of Chpter 73, Title 5 U.S.C. (relting to prohiited politil tivities); (2) retirement, life insurne, or helth insurne; (3) suspension or removl under Setion 7532 of Title 5 U.S.C.; (4) ny exmintion, ertifition, or ppointment; (5) the lssifition of ny position whih does not result in the redution in grde or py of n employee; (6) n dvne notie of disiplinry or dverse tion; (7) seprtion of protionry period employees; (8) termintion or expirtion of temporry ppointments; (9) orl or written dmonishments whih re not pled in the employee s Offiil Personnel File; nd (10) ny other mtter or issue exluded y ny provision of this Agreement. Setion 3 Representtion. A unit employee my present grievne on his/her ehlf under this proedure provided tht the Assoition is given the opportunity to e present during the grievne proeeding. Any resolution rehed with the unit employee shll e onsistent with the terms of this Agreement. 64

73 Setion 4 Proedures. Step 1 - Informl The Prties gree tht informl resolution of employee grievnes is desirle. To this end, the unit employee nd/or their Assoition representtive should present ny grievne informlly to his/her immedite supervisor within ten (10) dys fter the grievnt knew, or should hve known, of the t or inident leding to the grievne. The supervisor should rrnge for meeting within five (5) dys of the informl presenttion of the grievne to fully disuss the mtter nd to ttempt informl resolution. Step 2 - Forml Notwithstnding the provisions of Step 1 ove, the unit employee or his/her Assoition representtive must present the grievne, in writing, to the pproprite supervisor within twenty (20) dys fter the grievnt knew, or should hve known, of the t or inident leding to the grievne. (1) The supervisor shll issue written deision within seven (7) dys from the dte the written grievne ws reeived y the supervisor. Suh deision shll e trnsmitted to the grievnt nd the grievnt s representtive, if ny. (2) The grievnt or his/her Assoition representtive shll hve ten (10) dys fter the reeipt of the supervisor s deision to dvne the grievne to the next level. If the grievnt hs not reeived written deision from the supervisor within the seven (7) dy period, the grievnt my dvne the grievne to Step 3 of this proedure within ten (10) dys fter the seven (7) dy period hs elpsed. Step 3 - Review When the grievne hs not een resolved t Step 2, the grievnt or his/her Assoition representtive my sumit his/her grievne to the Superintendent within the time speified in Step 2. Along with the informtion sumitted under Step 2, the grievnt must inlude sttement s to why the supervisor s deision is uneptle. The Superintendent will review the grievne nd will issue finl deision within twenty (20) dys from its reeipt. Suh deision shll e in writing nd shll set forth the resons for the deision. A opy of the deision shll e trnsmitted to the grievnt nd the grievnt s representtive, if ny. Setion 5 Ageny/Assoition Grievnes. The following proedure will e followed when proessing grievnes rising etween the Assoition nd the Ageny: Assoition or Ageny grievnes my e filed only t the DDESS level y the respetive offiils t the regionl level. Assoition or Ageny grievnes must e filed within thirty (30) dys fter the Assoition or Ageny knew, or should hve known, of the inident or ourrene giving rise to the grievne. Upon reeipt of n Assoition or Ageny grievne, the Assoition or Ageny, s pproprite, shll review, investigte, nd furnish finl deision within thirty (30) dys. Should the Assoition s or Ageny s deision not e stisftory, ritrtion my e invoked y the pproprite prty. 65

74 Setion 6 Alterntive Dispute Resolution. d Any grievne not resolved y the lst step of the grievne proedure will e medited with the ssistne from the Federl Medition nd Conilition Servie, or other mutully greed upon medition servie, if requested y either prty. The prty requesting medition must notify the other prty of its desire to engge in medition nd sumit ny neessry forms within twenty (20) dys following the lst step of the grievne proedure. The Prties will shre eqully in ny fees nd expenses of the meditor. If the grievne is unresolved y medition, the Assoition or the Ageny my pursue the grievne to ritrtion. The dte of the lst dy of medition will e onsidered the onlusion of the lst stge in the grievne proedure. The grievne my then proeed to ritrtion in ordne with Artile 27. When DoDEA or DDESS offiils request medition nd when ttendne t suh medition will require trvel y the FEA-SR Are Diretor outside of the ommuting re (norml Shool Distrit to whih ssigned) to prtiipte in the medition session, the Ageny will issue government trvel order nd py trvel expenses in ordne with the Joint Trvel Regultion. Setion 7 Generl Provisions. Time Limits. (1) The time periods set forth herein shll e tolled during ll reess periods in exess of four (4) workdys. For Assoition Grievnes, the winter reess shll e onsidered the twenty-one (21) lendr dy period eginning on 18 Deemer of eh yer through the 21 st lendr dy. For Assoition Grievnes, the summer reess period shll e onsidered the period eginning on 10 June nd extending through 10 August of the sme yer. (2) All time limits in this proedure my e extended or urtiled in writing y the mutul onsent of the Prties. (3) Both Prties gree to omply with the time limits estlished in the grievne proedure. Filure to omply with estlished time limits will serve s sis for either prty to dvne the grievne to the next step or to rejet grievne. Cnelltion. A grievne shll e neled upon the deth of the unit employee or upon his/her seprtion for resons not onneted with the grievne. Exerise of Rights. Under 5 U.S.C nd 5 U.S.C. 7121, unit employees my rise ertin mtters under this negotited grievne proedure or under n pplile sttutory proedure, ut not oth. For purposes of this Artile, the unit employee or his/her representtive shll e deemed to hve exerised his/her option s to proedure when timely written grievne under this proedure is filed; or hrge, ppel, or omplint under n pplile sttutory proedure is initited, whihever event ours first. 66

75 d Protetion from Reprisl. In exerising their right to seek resolution of grievnes, unit employees nd witnesses shll e free from ny nd ll restrint, interferene, oerion, disrimintion, or reprisl. The filing of grievne shll not e onstrued s refleting unfvorly on unit employee s good stnding, his/her performne, his/her loylty or desirility to the orgniztion, nor shll it e regrded s n unfvorle refletion upon the Ageny or prtiulr Ageny offiils. 67

76 Setion 1 Invoking Aritrtion. ARTICLE 27. ARBITRATION Should either the Ageny or the Assoition e disstisfied with the finl deision in grievne overed y Artile 26 of this Agreement, the prty who filed the grievne my proeed to ritrtion. However, ritrtion of the grievne my e invoked only y the Assoition or the Ageny nd does not require the pprovl of the rgining unit memer(s) involved. A written request for ritrtion, FMCS Form No. R-43 (Appendix L) must e served on the opposing prty within twenty (20) dys following the onlusion of the lst stge in the grievne proedure. The time periods set forth herein shll e tolled during ll reess periods in exess of four (4) dys. The winter reess period shll e onsidered the twenty-one (21) lendr dy period eginning on 18 Deemer of eh yer through the 21 st lendr dy. The summer reess shll e onsidered the period eginning on 10 June nd extending through 10 August of the sme yer. Setion 2 Seleting n Aritrtor. d e Within ten (10) dys from the dte of the request for ritrtion, the prties will jointly sk the Federl Medition nd Conilition Servie (FMCS) to provide list of seven (7) imprtil persons, pnel, qulified to t s ritrtors. All osts ssoited with requesting pnel will e orne eqully y the Prties, ut the Ageny reserves the right to reimurse the Assoition on qurterly sis. Within thirty (30) dys from the dte of the response from the FMCS onveying the nmes of the prospetive ritrtors, the Prties shll meet, either in person or telephonilly, to selet n ritrtor. If the Prties nnot mutully gree upon one (1) memer of the pnel, then the Ageny nd the Assoition will eh strike one (1) ritrtor from the pnel nd will repet this proedure until one (1) nme is remining on the pnel. The remining person shll e the duly seleted ritrtor. The Assoition shll hve first strike the first time n ritrtor is seleted under this Agreement, with the Prties lternting first strike in eh seletion therefter. The FMCS shll e empowered to mke diret designtion of n ritrtor to her the se in the event: (1) Either prty refuses to prtiipte in the seletion of ny ritrtor; or (2) Of intion or undue dely y either prty. Setion 3 Issue. If the Prties fil to gree on joint sumission of the issue for ritrtion, eh shll sumit seprte sumission; nd the ritrtor shll determine the issue or issues to e herd. Issues not rised during the grievne proess, inluding timeliness, shll not e rised nor onsidered y the ritrtor during the ritrtion proess. 68

77 Setion 4 Aritrtion Expense. d The ritrtor s fee nd his/her expenses of the ritrtion shll e orne eqully y the Ageny nd the Assoition. The ritrtion hering will e held on the Ageny s premises during the norml duty dy s determined y the ritrtor. In the unforeseen event tht the Prties must gree to hold herings in filities tht re not under the dministrtive ontrol of the Ageny, ny ost of suh filities will e orne eqully y the Ageny nd the Assoition. If desired, either prty my hoose to tpe-reord or hve trnsript mde of the hering. Should the other prty wish to hve opy of the trnsript, it must shre eqully in the ost. The grieving employee will e in py sttus for the durtion of the hering if otherwise in duty sttus. The Assoition representtive will e grnted offiil time s desried in Artile 6 for the durtion of the hering if otherwise in duty sttus. Setion 5 Witnesses. d Eh prty my reommend witnesses y providing the full nme, ddress, nd sttement setting forth the expeted testimony. The prties will exhnge witness lists t lest one (1) dy efore the hering. The ritrtor shll determine the witnesses to provide testimony. Approved witnesses will e in py sttus to the extent neessry to permit their testimony only if otherwise in duty sttus. The term otherwise in duty sttus does not inlude when the hering ours on norml duty dy nd the proeedings go eyond the employee s norml duty hours nor does it inlude dys when the employee would not otherwise e in norml duty sttus euse of shool losure, rek periods, et. The ritrtor hs the uthority to extend the proeedings pst the duty dy. However, no reimursement (monetry nd/or ompenstory time) will e pid s result. Setion 6 Deision. The ritrtor will e requested to render written deision s quikly s possile ut, in ny event, not lter thn thirty (30) dys fter the losing of the reord. The reord will lose following the lst dy of the hering unless extended y the ritrtor. Post-hering written riefs, if requested y the ritrtor, re due within thirty (30) dys fter losing of the reord. Setion 7 Exeptions. The ritrtor s wrd shll e inding on the Prties. However, either prty my file exeptions to n wrd with the Federl Lor Reltions Authority (FLRA) under 5 U.S.C

78 Setion 8 Aritrtor s Authority. The ritrtor shll hve no power to dd to, sutrt from, disregrd, lter, or modify ny of the express terms of the Agreement or ny Memorndum of Understnding (MOU) etween the Prties. Additionlly, he/she will hve no uthority to mke ny deision, reommendtion, or wrd tht would require n t inonsistent with or prohiited y lw, rule, or regultion, or tht would violte the terms of this Agreement. If either prty disgrees s to the mening or pplition of the deision, tht prty my return the deision to the ritrtor with request for lrifition. Aritrtors re ound y the holdings nd interprettions of the Merit Systems Protetion Bord, the FLRA, nd the Ageny s regultions s provided y lw. Setion 9 Attorney s Fees. The Generl Counsel s Offie, Deprtment of Defense Edution Ativity, will provide written notie to the Assoition thirty (30) lendr dys fter n entitlement to pyment of ttorney s fees to FEA-SR hs een estlished nd the ttorney s fees hve not yet een pid. The notie to FEA- SR will ontin the following informtion. (1) Wht steps hve een tken to otin pyment; (2) Sttus of pyment request; (3) Steps to e tken to otin pyment; nd (4) Projeted pyment dte. If ttorney s fees hve not een pid within sixty (60) lendr dys fter the originl dte of entitlement to pyment, the Generl Counsel will send follow-up letter to the Assoition tht updtes the informtion ontined in the previous letter. This provision is not limited to the pyment of ttorney s fees resulting from grievnes filed under Artile 26 of the MLA. 70

79 ARTICLE 28. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW/SPECIAL PROGRAMS The Ageny retins the right to estlish new/speil progrms. Normlly suh progrms shll not e implemented without the trining nd/or mterils, s my e deemed neessry y the Ageny, exept to meet the exigenies of the mission. The Ageny shll notify the Assoition representtive in ordne with Artile 7 of this Agreement nd negotite rrngements to minimize the dverse impt in ordne with Chpter 71 of Title 5, United Sttes Code. 71

80 Setion 1 Effetive Dte. ARTICLE 29. DURATION This Mster Lor Agreement with mendments, modifitions, nd hnges refleted in the Prties Memorndum of Agreement dted 6 Deemer 2005 shll eome effetive following Ageny Hed review provided for in 5 U.S.C Setion 2 Renewl. This Agreement will remin in effet through 11 July Either Prty my provide written notie t lest sixty (60), ut not more thn ninety (90), dys efore the expirtion of this Agreement of its desire to engge in rgining new greement. In the event suh notie is sumitted, the Agreement shll remin in effet until tht rgining is onluded nd new provisions re exeuted nd pproved in ordne with 5 U.S.C If neither prty files suh written notie, the Agreement shll e utomtilly renewed in one (1) yer inrements. d The Prties my jointly gree to mend provisions of this Agreement through duly exeuted Memorndums of Agreement. 72

81 Mster Lor Agreement - Pge 145 ]\Tow, therefore, y the virtue of the uthority vested in the undersigned signtures, this Agreement is herey exeuted. FOR THE AGENCY: FOR THE ASSOCIATION: U Eline Berz Diretor, DDESS/DoDDS-Cu Croline Myers FEA-SR Are Diretor U 6 Deemer

82 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BEFORE THE FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DOMESTIC DEPENDENT ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS (Ageny) nd CASE NO. WA-RP FEDERAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION STATESIDE REGION, FENNEA (Lor Orgniztion/Petitioner) CERTIFICATION OF CONSOLIDATION OF UNITS Pursunt to the Rules nd Regultions of the Federl Lor Reltions Authority, petition ws filed seeking to onsolidte two units of professionl employees of the Deprtment of Defense, Domesti Dependent Elementry nd Seondry Shools represented y the Federl Edution Assoition Stteside Region, FEAINEA. On April 11, 2000, the undersigned Regionl Diretor issued Deision nd Order in the ove mtter, in ordne with the provisions of Chpter 71 of Title 5 of the U.S.C. nd with the regultions of the Federl Lor Reltions Authority, onluding tht the proposed onsolidted rgining unit would e pproprite for the purpose of exlusive reognition, s requested. The prties wived their right to file n Applition for Review of the Deision nd Order. Pursunt to the uthority vested in the Regionl Diretor, IT IS CERTIFIED tht the Federl Edution Assoition Stteside Region, FEAJNEA is the exlusive representtive of ll professionl employees of the ove-nmed Ageny in the following onsolidted unit. UNIT: All professionl employees employed y the Deprtment of Defense, Domesti Dependent Elementry nd Seondry Shools FLRA Form 29 (Rev. 1/96)

83 (DODDDESS) t the Fort MClelln, Alm Elementry Shools; the Fort Ruker, Alm Dependents Shools; the Fort Stewrt, Georgi Shools; the Fort Knox, Kentuky Dependents Shools; the West Point, New York Shools; the Cmp Lejeune, North Crolin Dependents Shools, the Fort Brgg, North Crolin Dependents Shools; the Fort Jkson, South Crolin Shools; Lurl By, South Crolin Shools; the Fort Cmpell, Kentuky Dependents Shools; the Fort Benning; Georgi Shools; the Mxwell Air Fore Bse, Alm Dependents Shools; the Quntio, Virgini Dependents Shools, Roins Air Fore Bse Dependents Shools, the Dhlgren Dependents Shool, Dhlgren, Virgini nd the Gum Dependents Shools; exluding ll nonprofessionl employees, sustitute tehers, supervisors, mngement offiils, nd employees desried in 5 U.S.C ()(2), (31, (419 (6) nd (7). FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY Ating Regionl Diretor, Wshington Region Dted: April 1l, 2000 Atthment: Servie Sheet FLRA Form 29 (Rev. 1196)

84 DDESS OFFICIAL TIME REQUEST / REPORT Employee Nme nd Position: Shool Distrit nd Shool: Dte of Request: Destintion: Estimted Dte(s) nd Amount of Offiil Time Requested: Request Initited y: Ageny Assoition Offiil time is requested for the reson(s) heked elow for Assoition representtionl duties: Exluded from the Bnk Inluded in the Bnk Investigtion/preprtion of grievne Presenttion of grievne Representtion of disiplinry tion Preprtion for ritrtion Representtionl duties Assoition trining Attendne t Assoition Are Counil Mtg. Other (rief explntion) Representtion in ritrtion Consulttion with Ageny Negotition/preprtion FLRA/FSIP herings Forml disussions Weingrten Investigtion Shool Bord meetings during duty dy Approvl (is) (is not) given for the ove-mentioned request. If dispproved, stte reson: DATE NAME, TITLE, AND SIGNATURE OF SUPERVISOR

85 Offiil Time Used Strt Time End Time Totl Hours (Dte(s)) Offiil time for meetings initited y prinipl, Superintendent, or n Ageny designee is NOT dedutile from the offiil time nk. I ertify tht the employee nmed ove ws relesed from duty for offiil time purposes nd tht hours should e deduted from the offiil time nk. DATE NAME, TITLE, AND SIGNATURE OF SUPERVISOR

86 FEA/Stteside Region Request for Informtion Under Setion 7114()(4) of the Federl Servie Lor Mngement Reltions Sttute DATE: Dte of the informtion request. REQUESTOR: Nme of the requesting Assoition. ASSOCIATION CONTACT: Nme, position, miling ddress, nd phone numer of the Assoition ontt sumitting the request. AGENCY CONTACT: Nme, position, miling ddress, nd phone numer of the Ageny representtive to whom the request is eing mde. INFORMATION REQUESTED: Desription of informtion requested. [Inlude whether personl identifiers (suh s nmes, soil seurity numers, or other mtters identifying individul employees) re inluded or my e deleted.] PARTICULARIZED NEED: Sttements explining why the Assoition needs the requested informtion. (Explin how the Assoition intends to use the requested informtion nd how tht use of the informtion reltes to the Assoition=s role s the exlusive representtive. Inlude time periods enompssed y the request. Be s speifi s possile.) 1

87 PRIVACY ACT: Do you know if the requested informtion is ontined within system of reords under the Privy At? (If so, identify tht system of reords.) OTHER MATTERS: Other mtters relted to the request for informtion. (Disuss ny other mtters not listed ove whih relte to the Assoition=s informtion request nd whih my ssist the Ageny in responding to the request). Plese ontt me if the Ageny requires further lrifition of our request or wnts to meet to disuss the request, the mens of furnishing this informtion to the Assoition, or the issues giving rise to this request. Signture of Requestor Phone 2

88 SSAN: NAME: TITLE: ORG: DEGREE/ ANNUAL EARNED EARNED PAID PAID GROSS BI PERIOD STEP SALARY HOURS HRLY RATE HOURS HRLY RATE WEEKLY M-9 PAY CUM UN-PAID PAY PERIOD ENDS DAY EARNED CUM PAID BALANCE 1 16-Aug Aug Aug-97 5-Sep Sep Sep Sep-97 3-Ot Ot Ot Ot Ot Nov Nov Nov Nov De De De De Jn-98 9-Jn Jn Jn Jn-98 6-Fe Fe Fe Fe-98 6-Mr Mr Mr Mr-98 3-Apr Apr Apr Apr-98 1-My My My My My Jun Jun Jun Jun Jul Jul Jul Jul Aug-98 7-Aug-98 TOTALS OTHER PAY PPE DATE TYPE AMOUNT

89 EXPERIENCE CREDITABLE AS "TEACHING EXPERIENCE" UNDER ARTICLE 20, SECTION 3. EXPERIENCE FOR PAY PURPOSE S l or Clinil Experiene s Clssroom Teher in University Setting, n Elementry or Seondry Setting or t the DoDDS Pnm Cnl Junior College* CRED ITABL E or in Hospit Setting Experiene s Guidne Counselor in n Elementry or Seondry Setting or t the DoDDS Pnm Cnl Junior College Experiene s n Edution Tehnologist in n Elementry or Seondry Setting or t the DoDDS Pnm Cnl Junior College Experiene s Medi Informtion Speilist in n Elementry or Seondry Setting or t the DoDDS Pnm Cnl Junior College Experiene s n Administrtor in n Elementry or Seondry Setting or t the DoDDS Pnm Cnl Junior College Experiene s Registered Nurse in Clinil or Hospitl Setting, n Elementry or Seondry Setting or t the DoDDS Pnm Cnl Junior College Experiene s Physil Therpist in Clinil or Hospitl Setting, n Elementry or Seondry Setting or t the DoDDS Pnm Cnl Junior College Experiene s n Ouptionl Therpist in Clinil or Hospitl Setting, n Elementry or Seondry Setting or t the DoDDS Pnm Cnl Junior College Experiene s Psyhologist in Clinil or Hospitl Setting, n Elementry or Seondry Setting or t the DoDDS Pnm Cnl Junior College Experiene s Soil Worker in Clinil or Stte Fmily Support System, n Elementry or Seondry Setting or t the DoDDS Pnm Cnl Junior College Experiene s Speeh Teher or Therpist in n Elementry or Seondry Shool Setting, t the DoDDS Pnm Cnl Junior College POSITION Teher Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No** No** No** No** No** Yes Speeh Teher/ Therpist/Ptholgist Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No** No** No** No** No** Yes Medi Informtion Speilist Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No** No** No** No** No** No** Guidne Counselor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No** No** No** Yes No** No** Edution Tehnologist Yes Yes Yes No** Yes No** No** No** No** No** No** Nurse Yes No** No** No** No** Yes Yes Yes No** No** No** Ouptionl Therpist Yes No** No** No** No** Yes Yes Yes No** No** No** Physil Therpist Yes No** No** No** No** Yes Yes Yes No** No** No** Psyhologist Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No** No** No** Yes Yes No** Soil Worker Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No** No** No** Yes Yes No** * Preshool experiene with either n demi or soil skill emphsis is reditle, e.g., lerning enters, Montessori Shools, HedStrt progrm. Pre-shool **All prior DoDDs/DDESS experiene in experiene dy re enter in ny is of not the reditle. ove identified positions is reditle experiene for py purposes for ny other identified position(s).

90 APPENDIX F SALARY SCHEDULES DDESS PROFESSIONAL BARGAINING UNIT MEMBER COMPENSTION SCHEDULES MAY BE FOUND AT THE DoDEA WEBSITE:

91 DDESS EXTRACURRICULAR DUTY ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT Shool Distrit/Shool: I gree to perform the extrurriulr duty of for the shool yer. The mount of ompenstion for this tivity is $. The time worked will e in ddition to, nd not prt of, my regulr full-time ssignment nd will not interfere with those duties. Desription of Tsks to e Performed: I will notify the prinipl when the extrurriulr duty hs een ompleted. Employee's Printed Nme & Signture Dte Prinipl's Printed Nme & Signture Dte

92 DDESS Extrurriulr Duty Assignment COMPENSATION SCHEDULE ECDA High Shool Length Middle Shool Position HD Coh Asst. Coh HD Coh Asst. Coh Athleti Diretor *** $12, Yer $2, Footll *** $9, $7, Seson $2, $1, Bsketll ** $8, $6, Seson $2, $1, Trk (No Indoor) $4, $3, Seson $2, $1, Trk (Indoor) $4, $3, Seson Bsell $4, $3, Seson $2, $1, CrossCountry* $2, $1, Seson $2, $1, Golf $1, $1, Seson $1, $ Soer ** $6, $4, Seson $2, $1, Wrestling $4, $3, Seson $2, $1, Volleyll ** $4, $3, Seson $2, $1, Tennis $1, $1, Seson $1, $ Softll $4, $3, Seson $2, $1, Swimming $2, $1, Seson Weight Trining* $2, Yer Sports Mediine*** $10, Yer Intrmurls Diretor Yer $2, $1, Intrmurls Coh Seson $ Cheerleder Sponsor ** $3, $2, Yer $1, Student Ativities Diretor $3, Yer $1, Bnd *** $5, $4, Yer $2, Chorus/Drm $2, Yer $2, Yerook $1, $1, Student Government $1, Yer $1, Ademi Clu $1, Yer $1, Clss Sponsor $1, Yer Flg Corps $1, Yer Teher, VPDA (one redit hour ourse $1, Yer Teher, VPDA (one redit hour ourse $2, Yer *** Inudes 15 Additionl Workdys (120 hours) ** Inludes 10 Additionl Workdys (80 hours) * Inludes 5 Additionl Workdys (40 hours)

93 DDESS Extrurriulr Duty Assignment COMPENSATION SCHEDULE Elementry Bnd $2, Yer Chemil Hygiene Offier $1, Yer SIT Chir $1, Yer SIT Committee Memer $1, Yer Mentor (New Teher Liensure) $1, Yer Ativities for whih rgining unit memers re involved in eyond the regulr duty dy tht re yerlong tivities not listed ove shll e ompensted ording to the following shedule. 1* 2** 3*** 4**** $ $1, $1, $2, * Personnel in this tegory will ondut minimum of one tivity per week outside the regulr instrutionl dy. 2** Personnel in this tegory will ondut minimum of two tivities per week outside the regulr instrutionl dy. 3*** Personnel in this tegory will ondut minimum of three tivities per week outside the regulr instrutionl dy. 4**** Personnel in this tegory will ondut minimum of four tivities per week outside the regulr instrutionl dy. All other shool tivities sponsored y rgining unit memers nd pproved y the Superintendent, tht re not yerlong in durtion, shll e sed on pyment of $ per tivity.

94 EMERGENCY LEAVE BANK Wht it is: The Emergeny Leve Bnk hs een estlished per Artile 21, setion 9, of the DDESS/FEA-SR Mster Lor Agreement. Through this nk, prtiipnt n pply for sik leve following medil emergeny, tstrophi illness, or injury during whih the prtiipnt is unle to perform his/her ssigned duties. Prtiipnts 1. Must e employees (not fmily memers of employees) overed y this Agreement. 2. Must voluntrily ontriute one (1) sik leve dy to the nk. 3. Must sumit this pplition within thirty (30) dys if new employee. 4. My join during Open Seson. Opertion A. A prtiipnt my request leve from the Leve Bnk provided: 1. He/she hs exhusted ll personl nd sik leve; nd 2. He/she furnishes the ttending physiin s sttement estlishing the need for sene from duty for prolonged period of time euse of medil emergeny, tstrophi illness, or injury. B. The Emergeny Leve Bnk Committee will mke deisions on ll pplitions sumitted. These deisions re not sujet to the grievne proess. C. Approvl for leve grnts must e y mjority deision of the Emergeny Leve Bnk Committee whih onsists of one dministrtor nd two rgining unit memers. D. Anyone prtiipting in the Leve Bnk will e limited to withdrwing from the nk up to totl of forty (40) dys in suession per pplition. When n illness or the effets of n injury extend eyond forty (40) dys, the prtiipnt my repply for onsidertion of up to n dditionl forty (40) dys. DO NOT DETACH. COMPLETE AND MAKE A COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS. Employee (Print nme) Position Shool I DO NOT wish to prtiipte in the Emergeny Leve Bnk. I DO wish to prtiipte in the Emergeny Leve Bnk. The supervisor s signture signifies I hve sik dy to ontriute. Supervisor s Signture Employee s Signture Dte Dte Complete nd forwrd to prinipl.

95 Emergeny Leve Bnk Request Form Employee Nme Shool Distrit/Shool Hour(s)/dy(s) of sik leve requested: Reson(s) why leve requested: Employee Signture Dte ==================================================================== FOR USE BY E.L.B. COMMITTEE ONLY Approved Dispproved Dte STATEMENT FROM ATTENDING PHYSICIAN

96 Ptient s Nme: Dignosis of medil emergeny: Simple explntion of dignosis in lymn s lnguge: Current Sttus: Is immedite tretment required? Cn ptient perform ssigned duties t work if modifitions re mde to the working environment (e.g., in wheelhir if non-weight ering)? If yes, plese explin modifitions required: Prognosis: How mny dys of sik leve do you estimte this ptient will need efore he/she will e le to return to work? Will modifitions to the working environment e neessry t tht time? If yes, plese explin speifis: Do you expet tht this ptient will e le to return to work in his/her present ssignment? Any omments/reommendtions: Printed nme of ttending physiin Signture of ttending physiin Address Speilty re(s) City, Stte, Zip Phone Numer Dte

97 FACT SHEET ON LEAVE WITHOUT PAY (LWOP) FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES PROGRAM Employment Sttus: Durtion of Progrm: Length of Servie/Progrm Eligiility: Progrm of Study/Nture of Progrm: Employment Oligtion: Filure to Complete Progrm: Helth Benefits Coverge: Life Insurne Coverge: Step Inrese: Credit for Retirement: Leve Arul: Pled on LWOP Initil request my e for one shool yer only. If seond yer is needed, the edutor must sumit written request to the Diretor of DDESS for pprovl. Completion of five onseutive yers of fully stisftory servie with DDESS sine ompletion of the lst leve grnted for edutionl purposes. Employee must e serving on permnent ppointment. Pursue ourse of forml study t n redited ollege or university in the United Sttes. Progrm to e undertken must e enefiil to the needs of DDESS. None Filure to ide y the terms tht were presented s sis for pprovl of the request for LWOP my e grounds for the Government to reover ll or prt of ny ost to the Government. Helth insurne overge remins in effet; however, the employee must py the full shre of employee premiums. Life insurne overge remins in effet; however, employee must py full shre of employee premiums. No dditionl step inrese for yer on LWOP. Credit for six months towrd retirement is given in ny one (1) lendr yer. None.

98 FACT SHEET ON YEARLONG EDUCATIONAL LEAVE AT HALF-PAY PROGRAM Reeives si py for hlf of eh Employment Sttus: workdy nd is pled on leve without py for the other hlf of the workdy. Durtion of Progrm: Length of Servie/Progrm Eligiility: Progrm of Study/Nture of Progrm: Employment Oligtion: Filure to Complete Progrm: Helth Benefits Coverge: Life Insurne Coverge: Step Inrese: Credit for Retirement: Leve Arul: One shool yer. Completion of three (3) onseutive yers of fully stisftory servie with DDESS. Employee must e serving on permnent ppointment. Pursue one (1) yer ourse of study t ollege or university in the United Sttes in field or progrm determined enefiil to the needs of DDESS. Three shool yers of servie with DDESS upon return. Filure to ide y the terms presented s sis for pprovl of the request my e grounds for the Government to reover ll or prt of ny ost to the Government. Helth insurne overge remins in effet; however, the employee must py the full shre of employee premiums. Life insurne overge remins in effet; however, employee must py full shre of employee premiums. Step inrese will e grnted for full-time employees. Full redit for retirement. Leve will rue t the rte of five (5) dys of sik leve nd two (2) dys of personl leve per shool yer.

99 FACT SHEET ON ADMINISTRATIVE REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS (ARR) PROGRAM Employment Sttus: Durtion of Progrm: Length of Servie/Progrm Eligiility: Progrm of Study/Nture of Progrm: Employment Oligtion: Filure to Complete Progrm: Helth Benefits Coverge: Life Insurne Coverge: Step Inrese: Credit for Retirement: Leve Arul: Employee resigns. Initil request my e for one (1) or two (2) shool yers. If one (1) yer is pproved nd seond yer is needed, the edutor must sumit written request to the Diretor of DDESS for pprovl. Completion of five (5) onseutive yers of fully stisftory servie with DDESS sine ompletion of the lst leve grnted for edutionl purposes. Employee must e serving on permnent ppointment. Pursue ourse of forml study, prtiipte in projet, or ept temporry employment. Progrm to e undertken must e enefiil to the needs of DDESS. None Filure to ide y the terms of the ARR greement ould result in the greement to reemploy eing voided. Should this our, the edutor must ompete with other pplints for position. Employee my opt for temporry ontinution of overge; however, the enrollee must py the full premium for the pln (tht is, oth the employee nd Government shre of the premium) plus two (2) perent dministrtive hrge. No life insurne overge. Upon ompletion of the ARR n employee will e dvned one (1) step for their prior yers= servie. No redit for retirement. None.

100 APPLICATION / AGREEMENT FOR DDESS EDUCATIONAL LEAVE PROGRAMS Nme of Edutor: Shool Distrit nd Shool (ddress nd phone numer): Present Position Title: Also qulified to teh (list tegories or sujet res): I hve een serving on full-time permnent ontinuous ppointment with DDESS sine. Totl yers in DDESS:. I hve previously een on ARR, LWOP, or Yerlong Edutionl Leve t Hlf Py.. Yes or No If yes, whih progrm nd wht shool yer: ==================================================================== PROPOSED PROGRAM OF STUDY FOR: SELECT ONE: (ACADEMIC PROPOSAL REQUIRED FOR EACH PROGRAM) 1. Yerlong Edutionl Leve t Hlf Py ( ) 2. Leve Without Py for Edutionl Purposes ( ) 3. Administrtive Reemployment Rights Progrm ( ) I will ttend - (College or University) (City nd Stte) Proposed Admittne Dte: Progrm Completion Dte: Progrm will inlude the following ourses for totl of semester hours (or equivlent in qurter hours). Course Title nd Numer of Hours I hve tthed ourse desriptions for the ourses listed ove s well s orrespondene from the pproprite ollege or university pproving my progrm of study or projet. If seleted, I gree to provide offiil doumenttion demonstrting stisftory ompletion of the progrm. EXPLANATION OF PROPOSED PROGRAM OF STUDY/PROJECT/EMPLOYMENT AND

101 ANTICIPATED BENEFITS TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT: If seleted for the Yerlong Edutionl Leve Progrm, I herey gree to mintin my employment with DDESS for n dditionl three (3) onseutive yers ommening with the shool yer following ompletion of the demi progrm. If seleted for the ARR Progrm, I understnd nd knowledge tht if I fil to stisftorily omplete the demi progrm, I will reeive no speil plement onsidertion. (Signture of Applint) (Dte) The following portion must e ompleted y your prinipl: Reommend Approvl: Reommend Dispprovl: Comments: By signing this pplition, I ertify tht the edutor whose signture ppers ove is performing t ΑFully Suessful level. (Signture of prinipl) (Dte) Superintendent s Endorsement: I reommend pprovl dispprovl. (Signture of Superintendent) (Dte) 5

102 FMCS Form R-43 Rev Ferury 2003 FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE WASHINGTON, DC Form Approved OMB No Expires 02/2006 FAX REQUESTS WITH PAYMENT INFORMATION to (202) ; Phone (202) If you fx, do not forwrd hrd opy. You my file this form eletronilly t: DATE: 1. EMPLOYER Compny Nme: Representtive Nme: (Lst) (First) (Initil) Street: City: Stte: Zip Code: Phone: Fx: E-mil: 2. UNION Union Nme: Lol # Representtive Nme: (Lst) (First) (Initil) Street: City: Stte: Zip Code: Phone: Fx: E-mil: 3. Site of Dispute: City: Stte : Zip Code :* *Required for Metropolitn Seletion 4. Selet the pnel of ritrtors from elow or see Speil Requirements on pge 2. Regionl Su-Regionl Metropolitn (125 mile rdius from site of dispute. My ross stte oundries.) 5. Type of Issue: 6. Pnel Size: A pnel of (7) nmes is usully provided. If this is unilterl request, you must tth your relevnt ontrt lnguge whih speifies different numer or ertify on Pge 2 tht oth prties hve greed to the numer speified. 7. Type of Industry: Privte Setor Stte or Lol Government Federl Government 8. Pyment Options: $50.00 per pnel OR $30.00 IF FILED AT Chek or Money Order ABA Routing Numer: Cheking At. #: (SEE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT ON PAGE TWO IF PAYMENT IS BY CHECK.) Chek to split pyment evenly VISA MASTERCARD AMERICAN EXPRESS DISCOVER PREPAID ACCOUNT Nme (1): Pid y: Union Employer Amount: Crd Numer: Expires: Month: Yer: Nme (2): Pid y: Union Employer Amount: Crd Numer: Expires: Month: Yer: ALC for Federl Agenies: ALC # Prepyment # 9. Signtures: Employer: Union: PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT NOTICE: The estimted urden ssoited with this olletion of informtion is 30 minutes per respondent. Comments onerning the ury of this urden estimte nd suggestions for reduing this urden should e sent to the Offie of Generl Counsel, Federl Medition nd Conilition Servie, 2100 K Street, NW, Wshington, DC or the Pperwork Redution Projet , Offie of Mngement nd Budget, Wshington, DC 20503

103 REQUEST FOR ARBITRATION PANEL SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Note: ALL requests on this pge must e CERTIFIED s jointly greed AND signed elow. Requests on this pge will NOT e honored without proper ertifition. Selet pnel from Ntionwide EXPEDITED ARBITRATION under FMCS Proedures (See FMCS Aritrtion Poliies nd Proedures, Suprt D, Setion for speifi requirements for Expedited Aritrtion.) ORGANIZATIONS or CERTIFICATIONS: Attorney AAA (Amerin Aritrtion Asso.) Industril Engineer NAA (Ntionl Ademy of Aritrtors) SPECIALIZATIONS: Industry Speiliztion: Issue Speiliztion: ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: (For exmple, geogrphil restritions, exlusions of ritrtors) A pnel will e sent sed upon the request of single prty. If Speil Requirements re listed or Expedited Aritrtion is requested, you MUST ertify tht ll prties jointly gree to these requests. This lso pplies to dditionl pnel requests. If your ontrt ontins these Speil Requirements, inluding Expedited Aritrtion, sumit opy of the relevnt ontrt lnguge only. A sumission of pnel should not e onstrued s nything more thn ompline with request nd does not reflet on the sustne or ritrility of the issue(s) in dispute. I ertify tht the ove is jointly greed. Signture: On ehlf of: Union Employer NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS MAKING PAYMENT BY CHECK Authoriztion to Convert Your Chek: If you send us hek to mke your pyment, your hek will e onverted into n eletroni fund trnsfer. Eletroni fund trnsfer is the term used to refer to the proess in whih we eletronilly instrut your finnil institution to trnsfer funds from your ount to our ount, rther thn proessing your hek. By sending your ompleted, signed hek to us, you uthorize us to sn your hek nd to use the ount informtion from your hek to mke n eletroni fund trnsfer from your ount for the sme mount s the hek. If the eletroni fund trnsfer nnot e proessed for tehnil resons, you uthorize us to proess your originl hek. Insuffiient Funds: The eletroni fund trnsfer from your ount will usully our within 24 hours, whih is fster thn hek is normlly proessed. Therefore, mke sure there re suffiient funds ville in your heking ount when you send us your hek. If the eletroni fund trnsfer nnot e ompleted euse of insuffiient funds, we will not resumit the hek informtion for eletroni fund trnsfer. Your nk my hrge you fee for insuffiient funds. Trnstion Informtion: The eletroni fund trnsfer from your ount will e on the ount sttement you reeived from your finnil institution. However, the trnsfer my e in different ple on your sttement thn the ple where your heks normlly pper. For exmple, it my pper under other withdrwls or other trnstions. You will not reeive your originl hek k from your finnil institution. For seurity resons, we will destroy your originl hek, ut we will keep opy of the hek for reord keeping purposes. Your Rights: You should ontt your finnil institution immeditely if you elieve tht the eletroni fund trnsfer reported on your ount sttement ws not properly uthorized or is otherwise inorret. Consumers hve protetions under Federl lw lled the Eletroni Fund Trnsfer At for n unuthorized or inorret eletroni fund trnsfer.

104 APPENDIX M DEFINITIONS Shool Distrit: A Deprtment of Defense Domesti Dependent Elementry nd Seondry Shool Distrit loted t the following instlltions: Cmp Lejeune, North Crolin Dhlgren, Virgini Fort Benning, Georgi Fort Brgg, North Crolin Fort Cmpell, Kentuky Fort Jkson, South Crolin Fort Knox, Kentuky Fort Ruker, Alm Fort Stewrt, Georgi Gum Lurel By, South Crolin Mxwell Air Fore Bse, Alm Roins Air Fore Bse, Georgi Quntio, Virgini West Point, New York Dys: Clendr dy(s) unless otherwise indited s workdy(s). Clssroom teher: All ertified professionl employees whose primry duties re to provide instrution nd inludes tehers, informtion speilists, nd speil edution tehers. Erned Hourly Rte: The nnul slry divided y 1520 hours. DDESS Diretor: Where the term "DDESS Diretor" is used, it refers to the individul responsile, for the orgniztion, mngement, funding, diretion, nd supervision of the Deprtment of Defense Domesti Dependent Elementry nd Seondry Shools, or his/her designee. Prent: The iologil fther or mother of hild when prentl rights hve not een leglly terminted; person who, y order of ourt of ompetent jurisdition, hs een delred the fther or mother of hild y doption; the legl gurdin of hild; or, person in whose household hild resides, provided tht suh person stnds in loo prent is to tht hild nd ontriutes t lest one-hlf of the hild s support.

105 DOMESTIC DEPENDENT ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS 700 Westprk Drive, Pehtree City GA (678) / (770) (fx) Jnury 10,2006 MEMORANUDUM FOR DDESS SUPERINTENDENTS SUBJECT: DDESSIFEA-SR Mster Lor Agreement 1. On Jnury 6,2006 the Deprtment of Defense Civilin Personnel Mngement Servie (CPMS) pproved the new olletive rgining greement etween DDESS nd FEA-SR. As you my rell, the originl greement ws exeuted on 15 July 2005, ut dispproved upon Ageny Hed Review. The prties finlly rehed greement to "fix" the dispproved setions nd re-exeuted the greement on Deemer 6, The new ontrt is sed upon 42-pge MOU with tthments. Those provisions will hve to e inorported into the former Mster Lor Agreement, nd then the new MLA will hve to e re-printed nd distriuted. We will provide further informtion in the ner future onerning trining on the new ontrt. 3. Plese ontt Bo Sutemeier t if you hve further questions. d& Sine ly, k&% - Eline Berz 0 Diretor, DDESSIDoDDS-Cu Enl: CPMS Letter, Jnury 6,2006

106 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT SERVICE 1400 KEY BOULEVARD ARLINGTON, VA Jnury 6, 2006 MEMORANDUM FOR DIRECTOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS/DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPENDENTS SCHOOLS-CUBA, ATTN: OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (ROBERT SUTEMELER) 700 WESTPARK DRIVE, PEACHTREE CITY GA SUBJECT: Mster Lor Agreement etween the Deprtment of Defense Domesti nd Seondry Shools (DDESS) nd the Federl Edution Assoition-Stteside Region (FEA-SR) The sujet greement ws originlly exeuted on July 15, 2005 nd dispproved on August 11, The prties re-exeuted the greement on Deemer 6, 2005 nd it hs een reviewed pursunt to 5 U.S.C9, () nd is herey pproved. The pprovl of this greement does not onstitute wives of or exeption to ny existing lw, rule, regultion or pulished poliy. This tion is tken under uthority delegted y DoD M, Civilin Personnel Mnul, Suhpter 7 11, Lor Mngement Reltions. Plese nnotte the greement to indite: Approved y the Deprtment of Defense on Jnury 6, One eletroni opy of the pproved greement should e forwrded to lor.reltions@opms.osd.mil long with one opy of OPM Form 913-B (tthed). If there re ny questions onerning this mtter, Ms. Shnnon W. Shmidt n e rehed on DS or ommeril (703) , extension 462. Atthment: As stted Stff Diretor for Lor nd Employee Reltions