2021 Vermont Statutes
Title 16 - Education
Chapter 57 - Labor Relations for Teachers and Administrators
§ 1984. Access to new teachers or administrators in bargaining unit
§ 1984. Access to new teachers or administrators in bargaining unit
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(a) A school board shall provide a teachers' or administrators' organization that is the exclusive representative of the teachers or administrators in a bargaining unit with an opportunity to meet with each newly hired teacher or administrator in the bargaining unit to present information about the teachers' or administrators' organization.
(b)(1) The meeting shall occur during the new teacher's or administrator's orientation or, if the school board does not conduct an orientation for newly hired teachers or administrators, within 30 calendar days from the date on which the teacher or administrator was hired.
(2) If the meeting is not held during the new teacher's or administrator's orientation, it shall be held during the new teacher's or administrator's regular work hours and at his or her regular worksite or a location mutually agreed to by the school board and the teachers' or administrators' organization.
(3) The employee organization shall be permitted to meet with the employee for not less than 60 minutes.
(4) The teacher or administrator shall be paid for attending the meeting at his or her regular rate of pay.
(c)(1) Within 10 calendar days after hiring a new teacher or administrator, the school board shall provide the teachers' or administrators' organization, as appropriate, with his or her name, job title, worksite location, work telephone number and e-mail address, home address, personal e-mail address, home and personal cellular telephone numbers, and date of hire to the extent that the school board is in possession of such information.
(2) The teachers' or administrators' home address, personal e-mail address, and home and personal cellular telephone numbers shall be kept confidential by the employer and the teachers' or administrators' organization and shall be exempt from copying and inspection under the Public Records Act.
(d) The school board shall provide the teachers' or administrators' organization with not less than 10 calendar days' notice of an orientation for newly hired teachers or administrators in its bargaining unit. (Added 2019, No. 180 (Adj. Sess.), § 12, eff. Jan. 1, 2021.)
