Related Service Providers have an agreement allowing those who don't have an accommodation to still do their remote sessions fom home.
Email from President Mulgrew:
Dear _________,
In such an uncertain time, the UFT is fighting for common-sense working conditions for all titles in our membership. To that end, we have reached agreement with the Department of Education on some changes in working conditions for occupational and physical therapists and speech teachers for the 2020-21 school year.
Itinerant employees will not have to report to multiple worksites. If you have a payroll school, but you are split among two or more schools, you will only report to your payroll school until further notice. If you don’t have a payroll school, you will be assigned to only one school, as designated by your supervisor, and your responsibilities in other schools can be handled remotely.
Our new agreement also limits the number of sessions that occupational and physical therapists and speech teachers can be asked to do in-person. While New York City public schools are using the blended model, you can be asked to do a maximum of six in-person sessions. The remaining sessions (up to eight when combined with the in-person sessions) can only be for remote students, and you can conduct those sessions remotely. The remote sessions must be held at a time that is mutually agreeable for you and the families of the students you serve. If you have a workday when you have no in-person students, you will not have to report to the school building. You can, however, report to the building if you want, space permitting. It is your decision.
The combined time that you are in the school building plus your remote sessions cannot exceed your contractual work hours.
If you have any questions, please call the UFT Contact Center on weekdays at 212-331-6311.
The Agreement:
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8 comments:
Does anyone know if teachers who don't have any in-person classes some days of the week will be allowed to work from home on those days? If not, why is this something the UFT won't fight for? I'm trying not to be bitter, but I'm annoyed that I have to risk my health/family's health and spend the time and money to commute when I have only remote classes one day each week, while other colleagues get to work from home full time.
Also does this mean atrs will remain in one school and not rotated?
Gain weight, eat potato chips for a few months,,,,get an accommodation.
Probably because the school may need you for coverages....
Some Teachers are really remarkable. I am not remote. I have heard all week from people in the building about people who are irritated or angry that people got a medical accommodation. Like what kind of person is jealous of someone who has a disease? Like if you really don't want to go to work, take a leave, quit, join the law suit, ask your principal for an accommodation or figure out how to get a dr to write you a note. Otherwise, mask up and deal with it. Lots of people are going to work cause they have to and i guess you do too. Your personality is ugly.
SOme people got leaves just because they were taking care of their kids at home who are doing remote.
Federal law allows leaves to take care of kids not in school.
I'm not mad at people who have a disease. I'm mad at the system set up by the DOE, which has revealed a million different inequities. One of which--let's be real--is that some people get to work from home full-time while others are being forced to report EVEN ON DAYS THAT NO ONE IN MY SCHOOL TEACHES IN PERSON. There's literally no reason we couldn't run our Zoom classes from home on that day.
I don't think sick people should have to report to buildings. I don't think teachers who don't have in-person classes should have to either.
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