Article 25
WORKLOAD
Most Graduate Assistants and all Instructional Student
Assistants are non-exempt employees who typically work no more than 20
hours in a week. Graduate Assistants whose work involves research
related to their course of study are considered "exempt." All teaching
associates are exempt employees.
The University shall pay all non-exempt Graduate Assistants
and Instructional Student Assistants for all hours assigned by their
supervisor and worked, including time spent in work-related meetings.
When an ISA is assigned and scheduled by their supervisor
to tutor a student, the ISA shall be paid for showing up at the scheduled
tutoring session if the student fails to show and the ISA was not notified
before the start of the scheduled session. In such case, the supervisor
may assign other duties to the ISA. The ISA shall be paid for the time
period of the scheduled tutoring session.
The University shall provide paid breaks to non-exempt
Graduate Assistants and Instructional Student Assistants. Non-exempt
Graduate Assistants and Instructional Student Assistants shall be allowed
fifteen (15) minutes paid breaks for each four (4) hours worked. The
appropriate administrator in accordance with the operational needs of
the department shall determine paid breaks schedules.
Teaching Associates and exempt Graduate Assistants are
to be assigned reasonable workloads, which are the number of hours the
University could reasonably expect a Teaching Associate or exempt Graduate
Assistant to take to satisfactorily complete the work assigned. Reasonable
workloads are measured by the consideration of several factors including
the following non-ordered factors:
- a Teaching Associate or exempt Graduate Assistant with a 50% time-base
appointment shall normally be assigned a workload of no more than 320 hours
per semester (220 hours per quarter.) This shall apply proportionately to
other percent time-base appointments.
- a Teaching Associate or exempt Graduate Assistant with an appointment
of 50% time-base or less shall normally be assigned a workload of no more
than 40 hours in any one week. The number of hours worked in excess of
twenty (20) hours per week may not normally total more than 73 hours per
semester (50 hours per quarter).
- nature and quantity of work assignments (such as, grading responsibilities),
- number of students,
- type of instruction,
- the level of support provided the program,
- enrollment demand, and
- the University's use of weighted teaching units.
Teaching Associates and exempt Graduate Assistants should
initiate discussions with their supervisor as soon as they anticipate any
workload related issues that would result in a violation of this Article
which, for the purposes of this article, will be considered the Informal
Step 1 of the grievance procedure.
The provisions of this Workload Article are subject to the
grievance/arbitration procedure as modified by the following Expedited Process.
Expedited Process
The following expedited grievance/arbitration process
shall apply in all cases of alleged violations of this workload article.
In the event a grievance alleging a violation of this
article is not settled at the Informal Step 1, the Union may file a
grievance at Formal Step 2. For the purpose of this expedited process,
the Union may submit solely the issue of whether a violation of this
Article occurred directly to arbitration. In considering whether this
Article has been violated, the Arbitrator shall not be precluded from
reviewing the contract as a whole. Such expedited arbitration hearings
shall be held on a mutually-agreeable date within 21 days of the date
of the arbitration submission. Any party, its witnesses or the Arbitrator
may elect to participate in such arbitration hearings via conference
telephone call. Such arbitrations concerning this section shall be
conducted without court reporter's transcripts or post hearing briefs.
The arbitrator shall provide a bench decision which becomes effective
immediately and provide a written opinion and award.
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