Post by Logan on Feb 6, 2016 21:58:45 GMT -6
Dozens of Philadelphia public schools could get full-time counselors, and more than a dozen Philadelphia school counselors could get their jobs back, if a judge's order stands.
Common Pleas Court Judge Linda Carpenter on Friday denied the Philadelphia School District's request for stay of an independent arbitrator's order.
In 2015, arbitrator Ralph H. Colflesh Jr. handed the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers a significant victory, ruling that the school system was wrong to bypass seniority in recalling laid-off employees, and that it was in violation of its contract by failing to have one full-time counselor at every school.
Colflesh ordered the district to rehire counselors who were laid off in a 2013 budget crunch and never rehired. That June, the district laid off every counselor, later recalling some, and not in order of seniority.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/20160206_Judge_to_Philly_schools__hire_back_counselors.html
Common Pleas Court Judge Linda Carpenter on Friday denied the Philadelphia School District's request for stay of an independent arbitrator's order.
In 2015, arbitrator Ralph H. Colflesh Jr. handed the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers a significant victory, ruling that the school system was wrong to bypass seniority in recalling laid-off employees, and that it was in violation of its contract by failing to have one full-time counselor at every school.
Colflesh ordered the district to rehire counselors who were laid off in a 2013 budget crunch and never rehired. That June, the district laid off every counselor, later recalling some, and not in order of seniority.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/20160206_Judge_to_Philly_schools__hire_back_counselors.html