East Otero School District R-1

Full-time certified personnel shall receive $404.41 per month as a fringe benefit if employee participated in the district’s health insurance plan. For employees working less than .75 FTE to .5 FTE, they may receive a $202.20 monthly benefit allowance.

The business office of the district makes monthly deductions from salaries for the following, in accordance with the provisions of the law:

• Federal and State income tax.
• P.E.R.A. retirement contributions of 8% for all employees.
• Medicare - .0145 of the monthly gross (only for employees hired after 07/01/86).
• Disability Insurance – up to a maximum of $5.25 per month

Each full-time certified employee shall be granted eight (8) days sick leave per year without reduction in pay for personal illness. Unused sick leave is accumulative to a total of ninety (90) days.

Teachers are granted two (2) days of personal leave each year cumulative to six (6). Use of these days are to be arranged through the building principal.

At the beginning of each school year all teaches who have accumulated six (6) days; after six (6) are accumulated, the excess days will be transferred into sick leave with the maximum sick leave accumulation being 90 days. Only three personal days can be used at a time. Beginning July 1, 1995, upon attendance at a District designated staff development program, teachers and other designated employees may earn one additional day of personal leave each year.

Sick Leave Bank participation is available to all personnel by a donation of two (2) days of sick leave to the Bank upon enrollment. Each staff member who has accumulated at least fourteen (14) days of sick leave shall be eligible to join the Sick Leave Bank. A member of the Sick Leave Bank may apply for sick leave days from the Bank any time after he/she has used up his/her own sick leave days for each serious illness, accident, or hospitalization. Upon approval, a member of the Bank may draw up to 45 consecutive workdays from the Bank.

Bereavement leave will be allowed to employees in additional to sick and personal leave in the case of a death in the immediate family (2 days in state, 3 days out of state).

Employees shall be paid on the 25 th day of each month. When the 25 th day falls during a holiday or weekend. Payday shall be the last working day preceding the holiday or weekend.

An employee wishing to transfer to a position of lesser responsibility will also be expected to accept a reduction in salary commensurate with that position.

Movement from one skill to another can be made only at the beginning of a new contract year except for new employees. This is not automatic movement. Certain skill levels must be obtained for this movement.