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Teacher-hours and HR practices criticized during public comment; speaker urges policy to credit out-of-hours work for school closures
Summary
A district employee, Doug Patton, told the board that recent HR decisions around inclement-weather closures have harmed morale and asked the board and superintendent to develop a policy allowing principals to validate hours worked outside the regular schedule to count toward makeup-day obligations.
During the public comment period Mr. Doug Patton addressed the Onslow County Board of Education to criticize recent actions by the district human resources office and to urge a change in policy for counting work hours when inclement weather forces school closures.
Patton said HR has applied “arcane and draconian practices” and that those practices have created division between employees who were paid for work during…
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