February 20, 2014

 

TO:   ALL RIHEA MEMBERS

FR:   Barbara R. Duhig, RIHEA President

Cherylin J. Roeser, RIHEA Vice President

RE:   Use of Personal Days over April Break

We met with Dr. Palestis at our regular contract management meeting on  Wednesday, February 19, 2014. At this meeting, the Superintendent and the RIHEA mutually agreed to follow the procedures that were implemented at Ramapo during the February 2013 Winter Break.

 

Use of personal days for staff during the April 2014 Spring Break will be granted in the following order:

 

1. If you have confirmed plans and can provide plane tickets, or hotel reservations somewhere, made BEFORE February 14, 2014, you must complete the usual purple request form and attach copies of your tickets, reservations or other confirmations and submit those documents to the building principal, who can then recommend to the Superintendent that you be allowed to use personal days as indicated below. (Make copies of everything for your own records.)

 

2. You must use this year’s personal days first.

 

3. If you do not have sufficient personal days available this year, you can use any banked days from previous years. Any unused personal days carry over for retirement purposes, so your pay stub should show how many unused personal days you may have from previous years.

 

4. If you do not have personal days to use from this year, and you do not have any banked personal days from previous years, you can “borrow” from next year’s days (2014-2015).

 

5. If none of these situations work – that is, if you do not have personal days from this year, do not have banked days from previous years, and do not want to use next year’s days, then, unfortunately, you will have to take the days with a deduction in pay for any days missed.

 

6. If you have a situation that does not seem to fit any of these parameters, please let us know the details. USE YOUR HOME EMAIL AND OUR HOME EMAILS (bduhig@optonline.net, or croeser@optonline.net)

 

Barbara R. Duhig

President

Ramapo Indian Hills Education Association

 

Cherylin J. Roeser

Vice President

Ramapo Indian Hills Education Association