Length of Workday. All certificated teachers may be assigned appropriate starting and dismissal times. The total length of the workday shall be seven and three-quarter (7 ¾) hours, which shall include a continuous thirty (30) minute duty-free lunch period. Necessary all-staff meetings may extend the work day by fifteen (15) minutes. Individual exceptions to the seven and three quarter (7 ¾) hour day may be granted for good cause and by prior approval of the administrator. Employees shall be considered in their schedules, by their principals, for a brief relief period both morning and afternoon and provisions for preparation time. In situations which necessitate the shortening of the school day (i.e. inclement weather and/or hazardous road conditions, etc.) all employees will be expected to report to work as soon as possible. It shall be the responsibility of each employee to contact his/her immediate supervisor as early as possible if the employee will be late for the employee scheduled start of school. On Fridays and all days before holidays, teachers will be allowed to leave the school building fifteen (15) minutes before established employee dismissal time.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement