RIFs / Lay-Offs

Layoff Hearings April 19 through April 21 at the Village Conference Center Entrance 1. Hearing begin at 9 am sharp, please arrive early. PUSD will provide subs for the hearings. Talk to your office manager to coordinate a sub for your class while you attend the hearings.

March 1, 2011   NEW!

Dear APT Members:

Above is a link to a copy of the 2011 Layoff Survival Guide prepared by CTA’s Legal Department. This document has valuable information detailing how to respond to preliminary notices of layoff.

Additionally you will find a link to the resolution passed on February 22 at a Special PUSD Board meeting authorizing the reduction or discontinuance of 272.5 full time positions for the 2010-2011 school year. This resolution authorizes the PUSD to send out layoff notices, which we believe will be sent by the end of this week (March 4). A copy of the seniority list is available at all school sites as well as here in the APT office for review, please see your office manager at your site for the list. The number 272.5 includes many assumtions about the budget and many of the jobs on the line hinge on the special election that Governor Brown has called for in June to extend taxes for an additional 5 years.

The following are some things you can do to prepare for the layoff process, should you receive a layoff letter:

1.            Check your personnel file. Copy any documents from the file that you will need to prove your first day of paid service with the district as a probationary employee. Your first in-service day may count, even if it was not mandatory, if you were paid for the day. Collect these documents NOW in the event you need them during RIF (Reduction In Force) hearings.

2.            If you are an agency fee payer, join CTA NOW so that you will be represented by CTA in any RIF hearings that occur. CTA provides representation to all members in RIF hearings, but does not provide representation to agency fee payers (non-members) in RIF hearings. Once you receive the preliminary layoff notice you will not be allowed to join APT and seek legal help, you must already be a member at the time you receive the notice.

3.        Upon receipt of the layoff notice if you would like to request a hearing you must submit a request for hearing to the personnel office with-in 5 days. Make SURE to get a date/time stamped copy before you leave. The request for hearing form letter is available as part of the "Layoff Survival Guide"packet you can download above. Do not wait, file the request for hearing IMMEDIATELY upon receiving the layoff letter.

4.            Make sure you attend one of the informational RIF/Layoff meetings later this month. We will have dates posted for these meetings by the end of this week. We STRONGLY suggest that you attend one of the meetings to get more information on how you will be represented by CTA Group Legal Services Attorneys during the RIF hearings if you so request.

More information will be posted here as it becomes available to us. We are here to support you in any way we can! Please call the APT office with any questions you have. (909) 623-6761

UNBELIEVABLE!!! (From last year 08-09)

As you have heard, the District is withdrawing all of the RIF notices. A copy of the District’s formal notification to the Office of Administrative Hearings is attached.

This means that the hearing scheduled to start on Monday will not go forward. It also means that you should be offered employment next year.

You will very likely continue working in your current assignment. If you do not receive an appropriate assignment you should contact APT as soon as possible.

Some probationary teachers were also given notices of non-reelection in addition to the preliminary notice and accusation that triggered these RIF proceedings. Withdrawal of the RIF notices does not necessarily withdraw those notices of non-reelection. If you received a notice of non-reelection and have any questions about whether you have recall rights next year, then please contact APT.

Finally, APT is continuing its lawsuit on behalf of certificated employees who were wrongly classified as temporary. If you think you have been misclassified then you should, if you have not done so already, inform APT of the specifics of your situation so that we may forward that information to the attorneys which are representing APT in that litigation.

We are glad that these RIF proceedings have finally ended and your rights have been respected. If other issues — summer school assignments, contracts for 2009-2010, assignments for 2009-2010 — come up in the next few months, then please let APT know about these so that it can take action to address your concerns.