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Board workshop reviews sweeping handbook updates: leave rules, inclement-weather pay and fitness exams among changes
Summary
At a March 10 workshop the Fond du Lac School Board reviewed proposed 2025'26 employee handbook updates that would reorganize leave rules, change inclement-weather pay for some groups and add pre-employment and return-to-work fitness exams.
At a March 10 workshop the Fond du Lac School Board heard a detailed presentation on proposed 2025'26 employee handbook revisions covering teachers, custodial staff, secretaries and instructional assistants.
The presentation, led by Mrs. Lombardo, reorganized leave sections, clarified paid and unpaid leave, and proposed new rules for unpaid personal leaves, inclement-weather pay and pre-employment fitness checks.
Why it matters: the changes affect district employees'eligibility for leave, how inclement-weather days are handled, internal substitute-pay rules and benefit eligibility. Some items also reduce previously available pay options for staff who work on snow days.
Major proposed changes
'23A lot of this is gonna be similar across the 4 handbooks,'2 Mrs. Lombardo said, introducing the updates.
Leaves and absence rules: the handbooks would be reorganized into paid leaves (including bereavement and legal-proceedings leave), FMLA/ADA, and unpaid leaves. Bereavement leave was clarified to list qualifying relatives; the handbook adds an appeal path to the superintendent for…
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