Author: Josh Davidson

What’s in Your Contract? Insurance and EAP Article 5.5 covers a few insurance-related benefits, mostly for permanent civil service employees. Civil service employees working at least 20 hours per week…

What’s In Your Contract? Articles 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 – Retirement, Health, and Dental RetirementUnlike every other school district in California, classified staff in SFUSD are not part of the CalPERS system.…

What’s In Your Contract? Articles 5.0 and 5.1 – Compensation and Longevity Article 5 is where wages and benefits live in our contract, except for leaves (in articles 12 and…

What’s In Your Contract? Article 4 – Translation and Distribution “Upon ratification… the District and Union shall cause this contract to be translated into Spanish and Chinese.” It’s important that…

What’s In Your Contract? Article 3 – Nondiscrimination “No employee shall be discriminated against because of… non‐merit/non‐job related factors.” That’s the basis of the nondiscrimination language, which is supported by Board…

What’s In Your Contract? Preamble, Article 1, Article 2 Over the next few weeks, we’ll be going through your contract to get you familiar with what’s inside. Today we start…

From time to time, everyone has challenges at work. It’s important to know that your coworkers will stand up for you and help you solve problems to make work better…