High Needs Clause Samples

High Needs. Employees assigned to work with students with special needs may qualify for one of the following stipends according to the following criteria:

High Needs. “High Needs” Instructional Assistant are those IA’s assigned to a student with any of the following disabilities: • Autism accompanied with aggressive behaviors • Multi-handicapped accompanied with aggressive behaviors • Intense medical needs (e.g. feeding tube, tracheotomy, etc.) • Specialized, skilled services (e.g. American Sign Language) A current employee who applies for and is appointed to work with a “high needs” student will have the right to return to his/her previous level of assignment and level of pay in the event the student leaves the school district. A candidate (not currently employed in the district) specifically hired to work with a high needs student may have his/her employment contract terminated in the event the student leaves the school district.

High Needs. Weekdays: 8am - 4.30pm; 4pm -11 pm (S/O) 7am - 8:30am; 3pm -11 pm (support) Weekends: 11 am - 11 am (S/O); 11 am - 11 pm (support)*

High Needs. Employees in all Service Units may be assigned temporarily to high-need situations such as, but not limited to, street snow removal, flooding, civil defense emergencies or major disasters. High need situations are those circumstances inclusive of emergency or urgent situation where a service unit is not able to handle the service requirement that arises with the currently scheduled workforce and/or equipment without assistance from another service unit(s). Such assignments shall not be considered a promotion or reclassification and when so assigned, employees shall receive their regular wages for the hours worked. Assignments made under this section shall not be construed as setting a precedent for any other crossover assignments. Upon designation by the City Administrator or Service Area Administrator and notification to the Union President that a high need situation exists, the impacted service units may institute special schedules including, but not limited to, twelve (12) hour shifts. All impacted operations shall function in accordance with special management procedures and schedules to meet the special service requirements. In high needs situations, employees are required to respond to calls to work and work the schedules set by management. Discretionary leave time during these high need situations shall not be granted (i.e. vacation/comp/personal) before an individual employee begins, or during his/her first shift. Exceptions may be made with management approval for transitional purposes for the first and last days of the change to an extended shift. For example, when an employee ends his/her shift within four hours of his/her regular work shift, he/she may use leave time (other than sick) to go home and rest before his/her regular work shift begins again. Employees working in a high need situation outside their work area will not have hours worked added to the equalization list in their respective work area. a) An employee transferred on a temporary basis to a classification in a lower pay range shall have his/her hourly rate maintained. b) An employee who is transferred on a temporary basis to a classification in a higher range shall be paid at the higher range at a rate which represents at least a one (1) step increase in pay.

High Needs. Academic Area – 1 point to any Teacher who was hired before the 2014-2015 school year and who is teaching in one of the following High Needs Academic Areas: math, science or special education, or is trained and teaching in international baccalaureate instruction, is a psychologist or speech language pathologist, or has ENL certification and is teaching ENL.