Archive: July 2001

Hours for Non-Classroom Certificated Staff
By Steve Kaplan, UniServe Field Organizer

It is important to realize that non-classroom certificated staff cannot be required to be on site eight hours on a regular basis. For example, a nurse cannot be assigned a daily reporting time of 8:00 a.m. and a daily exit time of 4:30 p.m. (with a thirty minute lunch).

• "However, it is not expected that such unit members would routinely be required, to remain on site for eight- (8-) hour day." Section 8.5.2.1.
  
  
• "This contract language is meant to provide unit members covered by this provision with a greater degree of professional discretion with respect to their workday. It is understood that all necessary professional services to staff, students, and parents will continue to be provided by such unit members and that such unit members will ensure that they build adequate planning and preparation time into their schedules." Section 8.5.2.4

In addition, non-classroom certificated staff, when required to stay on site for eight hours on an individual day "are entitled to two (2) fifteen- (15)- minute rest periods per day." Section 8.5.2.3

Non-classroom certificated staff "shall be entitled to a minimum thirty- (30-) minute duty-free lunch period." Section 8.5.2.3

Non-classroom certificated staff frequently choose to work straight through, not taking breaks provided by the contract and staying a full eight hours on a regular basis. However, this does not change the contractual provisions they are entitled to receive.