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Employee handbook updated to align with student handbook on safety screenings and clarify leave rules
Summary
The board heard staff review a reformatted employee handbook with clarified leave language (including two 1‑hour tardy/early release passes per year for certified staff), updates to acceptable technology use guidance, and alignment of safety‑screening and video surveillance language with the student handbook.
Dr. Ratner presented a reformatted employee handbook and summarized substantive and formatting changes intended to standardize practices across the district.
Key policy clarifications include a new acceptable‑use reference and guidance until a formal technology policy is approved; a new safety‑screenings section to mirror the student handbook's implementation of screening stations; and changes to dress code and identification badge requirements. Dr. Ratner said medical‑style scrubs may be worn by some special education teachers who have Department of Exceptional Student Services approval, and the handbook clarified that flip‑flops are not permitted.
On leave, the handbook adds a provision that if an employee has exhausted all accrued sick leave, all available paid leave including vacation will be used prior to any pay dock for absences in the affected pay period. Certified employees will receive two one‑hour tardy or early‑release passes per school year (one per semester) that do not count against leave balances and cannot be used to require a substitute; the passes are noncumulative.
Dr. Ratner said the employee handbook language was aligned where appropriate with the student handbook (notably video surveillance and safety screening language) and that guidance links will be included until the district adopts a formal acceptable‑use policy. The board did not vote on the employee handbook at this meeting and staff asked members to submit suggested edits.
