FILE:  GBRB

Cf:  GBN

 

EMPLOYEE ATTENDANCE

 

 

Employees of the Rapides Parish School Board shall be expected and required to report to their designated work locations in the prescribed manner and at the prescribed time work activity is to commence.  Employees shall also be expected to remain at work for the entire work period excluding any rest and meal periods permitted.  Tardiness, unexpected absence, or failure to report to work as scheduled may result in disciplinary action.  In cases of anticipated absence or where the employee cannot report to work as scheduled, the employee shall notify his/her supervisor as soon as possible after the employee becomes aware that he/she will be absent from work.  Continual absence by the employee shall be conveyed to the employee’s supervisor on a regular basis.  The frequency of contact that may be required shall be determined by the supervisor.

 

STAFF SCHEDULES

 

The Rapides Parish School Board shall require all personnel to follow the school calendar and holiday schedule, during the school term.  The Superintendent, with the approval of the Rapides Parish School Board shall establish office hours and work schedules outside the normal school calendar as necessary.  Principals and the administrative staff should be in their buildings ahead of students or teachers, and should remain in their buildings until students and teachers have gone from school.  Principals who leave their buildings for any purpose, other than attendance at principals’ meetings, going to the administrative offices of the School Board, or other routine business affairs connected with the schools shall secure prior approval of the Superintendent for such absence.

 

Teachers are expected to be at school no later than fifteen (15) minutes before school starts.  Paraprofessionals shall report to work at the time teachers do.  Paraprofessionals may leave when classes are dismissed.

 

The day’s schedule shall include breaks consistent with those afforded teachers who are not on duty at recess periods.  The lunch period shall be equal to that of teachers; and when inservice training activities are scheduled which concern paraprofessionals, these shall be conducted within a regular work day or the employee shall be compensated on an hourly basis.  These must be planned in advance and announced at least one week prior to being held.

 

Summer Work Schedule

 

Principals shall reserve the first two (2) weeks of June for in-service programs.

 

In order to achieve the most efficient use of personnel at each school, the assistant principals, school secretaries and all other ten (10) and eleven (11) month employees will work their required number of days at the discretion of the principal.

 

The principal shall give the Superintendent a telephone number(s), where he/she may be contacted at any time he/she is not on his/her twenty (20) day vacation.  The assistant principal shall be contacted in the absence of the principal as needed.

 

ABSENCES

 

Absences of regularly employed personnel, other than for reasons of illness, must be with prior permission from the Superintendent or evaluator.

 

No teacher or other employee shall leave the school campus without having first obtained permission from the proper authority.  Each principal shall determine the guidelines for allowing employees to leave campus during the work day and such policy shall apply uniformly to all employees assigned to the campus.  Evaluators are granted authority to permit an employee’s absence for a portion of a school day.  The Superintendent or evaluator must grant permission for a period of one day or more.

 

Absentee Reporting

 

The following reasons will be considered as authorized absences for employees by the Rapides Parish School Board.  Absences for any other reasons may be considered as unauthorized absences, resulting in the employee being docked full pay for the time reported.

 

  1. Personal illness

  2. Personal leave 

  3. Perfect attendance leave

  4. Military leave

  5. Workers’ compensation

  6. Jury duty

  7. Court summons

  8. Approved school business

  9. Vacation

  10. Professional leave

  11. Release time for principals

  12. Extended sick leave

 

All absences of one (1) hour or more shall be reported by the immediate supervisor and shall be recorded and counted toward an employee’s leave time.  However, the immediate supervisor shall be allowed to record and count less than one (1) hour at his/her discretion.

 

Unauthorized Absence

 

Any employee who is absent from work and who has not received an authorized leave shall be considered on unauthorized leave.  Any employee on unauthorized leave shall receive no pay for those days which constituted the unauthorized leave and may be subject to dismissal and/or other disciplinary actions.

 

Job Abandonment

 

If an employee is absent for ten (10) or more days without explanation or approved leave, the School Board may consider the job as abandoned and the employee terminated, unless the employee can provide acceptable and verifiable evidence of extenuating circumstances, as determined by the Superintendent.

 

Revised:  July, 2012

 

 

Ref:    La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§11:778, 17:81, 17:500, 17:1186, 17:1201, 17:1202, 17:1203, 17:1204, 17:1206, 17:1208, 17:1208.1

Board minutes, 8-10-82, 3-15-83, 6-1-99, 3-07-06, 11-5-12

 

Rapides Parish School Board