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January Update

FLU Season

*With the flu season in full swing, please be cognizant that anyone who is very sick or has a contagious illness should stay home! Coming to work while being very sick, or with a fever will expose students and colleagues to catching the same illness. It also often causes the ill employee to be susceptible to catching a secondary infection and being out even longer. As per the teachers' contract a doctor's note is NOT required for an absence. Should a member be asked to supply such a note, it is important that this concern be directed to me or an executive council member so we

Upcoming HTA Sponsored Informational Presentations

Happy New Year!

Reminder!

Upcoming HTA Sponsored Informational Sessions:

NYSUT Benefits Meeting - Monday, January 9th, 2017 at 4pm at the CC in Room 208

*A NYSUT Benefits representative will explain many of the benefits that are available to NYSUT members such as: discounts on car rentals, travel and online shopping. Some other available benefits are insurance programs, estate planning, legal and financial services.

NYSTRS Benefit Meeting - Monday, January 23rd, 2017 at the CC in Room 208 at 4pm

* The HTA is proud to announce that Tim Southerton, one of three teacher members on the 10-member

JJ STANIS VISITS HERRICKS

JJ STANIS VISITS HERRICKS

Please join us for an informative meeting

On: Monday, December 5th

Community Center Room 208 @ 4pm

Learn about how to best take advantage of benefits provided through JJ Stanis such as:

vision
excess major medical insurance
FLEX spending

Aflac is Coming to Herricks

Aflac is coming to Herricks. Please see the attached pdf for the 2016 Enrollment Schedule 2016.

Click here

First Eligibility Retirement Deadline for Teachers

Retirement is a very personal issue and each case is different.

Just a reminder that teachers who are first eligible and wish to retire at the end of this school year must submit notification in writing to the District by Thursday, December 1st in order to receive payment for unused sick leave as stipulated in the contract language noted below:

ARTICLE 32. RETIREMENT BENEFITS:

A. A teacher who, in writing, notifies the District by December 1st, of the school year of first eligibility of his/her intention to retire will receive payment for unused sick leave at the rate of one (1) day's pay

Happy SRP Day

Happy SRP Day to all our

Herricks' School Related Professionals.

We value your dedication and the work you do each day to help our students and district.

Thank you!!!

SRP Day -Tues., Nov. 15, 2016

In 2007, Governor Spitzer signed into law a bill creating a permanent School-Related Professionals Recognition Day on the state calendar. SRP Recognition Day falls on the third Tuesday of each November, often during American Education Week.

NYSUT's 90,000+ SRP members perform a variety of key roles in schools, working as bus drivers, school nurses, custodians, secretaries, grounds and maintenance workers, food service workers, teaching assistants and aides and in dozens of other job titles.

I encourage members to recognize all our SRPs at Herricks on Tues., Nov. 15th for the valuable work they

Benefits Meeting for Potential Retirees

Are you thinking of retiring within the next five years? Please consider attending the:

Benefits Meeting for All Potential Retirees

On: Wednesday, October 26th

At: Community Center - Room 114

Time: 4-6pm

Reservations and an RSVP are not required. Walk-ins are welcomed!

School board to honor Herricks nurse, teachers for saving life of student

Below is the link for the NYSUT article on our MS members.This exemplifies what HTA members do instinctively. Thanks to all our amazing heroes!

http://www.nysut.org/news/2016/october/school-board-to-honor-nurse-teachers-who-save-life-of-student

Favorable Appellate Decision Regarding NYSHIP Buyout Litigation

On June 9, 2016 NYSUT received favorable decisions from the Appellate Division concerning our NYSHIP buyout litigation. Below is the decision:

"The Appellate Division, Third Department, granted NYSUT OGC's motions for reargument in both the Plainview and Roslyn NYSHIP cases, and simultaneously reversed its own prior adverse ruling that it had issued on November 25, 2015. By these decisions, the Appellate Division held that Policy Memorandum 122r3 ("Policy Memo") is null and void, and therefore, the Department of Civil Service did not have the statutory authority to limit or alter a negotiated