9.1 Work Year.
Contracted employees contracted to work a three (3) term
academic school year shall be required to work up to one
hundred seventy-eight (178) days as scheduled by the
College.
9.2 Inservice - Contracted. At
least five (5) and up to seven (7) inservice days may be
scheduled for contracted faculty prior to the beginning
of classes each fall term. At least two of the days of
the Fall inservice schedule for teaching faculty shall be
devoted to class preparation.
9.2.1 Additional
days may be scheduled throughout the academic year at
the discretion of each department or the
institution. Faculty, individually, shall
will be given the opportunity to
participate in discussions regarding
make recommendations prior to the
scheduling and planning of these days.
9.2.2 Additional days, within
the work year limit, may be scheduled by each
department or division outside the academic year. The
department or division may agree through their
standard decision making procedures to schedule
additional days outside the academic year provided
these days are contiguous with work days of the
academic year. Additional days, not scheduled per the
above, shall be treated as flex days. Flex days shall
be used for what the faculty member and the
appropriate manager mutually agree is appropriate
faculty work and shall be scheduled with the
appropriate manager for a time decided by each faculty
member.
9.2.3 The Faculty Professional
Development Committee and the Strategic Learning
Initiative Leadership Team shall be full partners in
inservice schedule preparation.
9.3 Inservice - Part-time.
Each part-time employee shall may
be scheduled for up to eight (8) hours of inservice every
four terms to be paid at thirty-six percent (36%) of
his/her individual credit hour rate. If less than eight
(8) hours are scheduled, this amount shall be prorated
based on actual hours scheduled.
9.3.1 Four (4) hours of
the inservice shall may be
scheduled each year prior to or during the first term
the employee works as a member of the bargaining
unit.
9.3.2 An additional four (4) hours
of the inservice shall he may
be scheduled each year prior to or during the
second term the employee works as a member of the
bargaining unit.
9.3.3 When scheduling inservice
hours for part-time employees, the College shall
he be considerate of the
employee's obligations not related to his or her Lane
Community College assignment.
9.4 Calendar Preparation.
The scheduled work year shall include those holidays
officially recognized as paid
holidays by the College that fall within the teaching
calendar. A copy of the proposed calendar will be sent to
the Association for its review and recommendations prior
to its official adoption by the Board.
9.5 Recognized Paid Holidays
Listed. The following holidays will be
officially recognized by the College
as paid holidays: Veterans' Day; Thanksgiving Day,
and the following Friday; Martin Luther King, Jr.'s
Birthday; President's Day; and Memorial
Day. ; New Year's
Day,; 4th of
July,; Labor
Day,; Christmas
Eve,; Christmas
Day,; and the day following
Christmas shall be considered paid holidays if
the employee's contract incorporates such days so that
he/she is required to work the last day preceding and the
first day following the holidays, excluding
weekends. When Christmas falls on Monday or
Wednesday, the following two days are observed as
holidays instead of the last working day before and the
first working day after Christmas day. Likewise, when
Christmas falls on Friday, the preceding two days are
observed as holidays.
9.6 Calendar Modification. If
during the term of this Agreement, the College proposes
an academic calendar that does not provide vacation
periods of a) two (2) weeks between fall and winter, b)
one (1) week between winter and spring, and c) one (1)
week between spring and summer, then such proposal shall
be subject to negotiations upon request by the
Association.
9.7 Common Meeting
Times. Beginning fall term 2001, classes shall
not be scheduled during a weekly two-hour time period
determined by the College and Association. The use of
these weekly times will be set by college policy for work
group, employee group, and college-wide governance.
