9 Comments - Ashland Adam - Friday, Oct 29, 21 @ 9:33 am: Please add HB 2778, Covid Administrative Leave Bill. - Rich Miller - Friday, Oct 29, 21 @ 9:47 am: Done, AA. Thanks for the reminder. - City Zen - Friday, Oct 29, 21 @ 10:09 am: Surprising that eligibility for paid administrative leave under HB2778 doesn’t require vaccination, only that the employee participate in the COVID-19 testing program at least once per week. - Ashland Adam - Friday, Oct 29, 21 @ 10:20 am: HB 2778 eligibility for paid administrative leave requires: a. full vaccination b. regular weekly testing - in keeping w state’s orders and rules. - NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham - Friday, Oct 29, 21 @ 10:39 am: ==HB 2778 eligibility for paid administrative leave requires: a. full vaccination b. regular weekly testing - in keeping w state’s orders and rules.== Shouldn’t that bill been extended to cover all state employees, not just school teachers and staff? - City Zen - Friday, Oct 29, 21 @ 11:17 am: ==Shouldn’t that bill been extended to cover all state employees== That depends. Do you want the state to cover contractors as well? Because the bill includes “contractors who provide educational support services to the district.” Lots of fine print in that bill. But what’s another unfunded mandate among school districts? - Ashland Adam - Friday, Oct 29, 21 @ 11:40 am: Unfunded mandate on teachers currently - they’re required to use their own time when forced to go into quarantine, even when its not they who are sick or have been exposed. Regarding extending the bill - this bill was limited to address issues that had arisen in schools and impacted educational employees. - City Zen - Friday, Oct 29, 21 @ 12:30 pm: ==Unfunded mandate on teachers currently - they’re required to use their own time when forced to go into quarantine== Isn’t this why they’re typically allowed to accrue 1-2 years worth of sick days? Why allow such a large amount of sick time to be accrued if you’re not going to have your employees use it for when they’re, you know, sick? I totally get covering the custodian or teacher with little to zero amount of sick time accrued. But covering the teacher with 100 sick days banked? Totally unnecessary. - Ashland Adam - Friday, Oct 29, 21 @ 12:59 pm: CZ, we’re not going to agree on this. No, they shouldn’t be required to use those days. What if they need those days in the future? Let’s say, post-pandemic, whenever that is, the world is back to normal. And said teacher and students are back in the classroom. What if that teacher experiences an illness? And needs the time off? This is why they’re allowed to accrue days, for their own medical emergencies, not to fulfill requirements of the district and state. This is a global pandemic, over 700 K Americans dead, and millions worldwide. The law is only in effect until the governor lifts the emergency order. And anyway - the bill passed. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.