Tuesday, July 15, 2008

MPS Committee to Vote on Sick Pay Benefit

The MPS board will be continuing its effort to increase its per pupil spending without doing anything to improve education. 

Tonight the Milwaukee Board of School Directors will vote on a resolution to support a paid sick days campaign led by 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women.

The Journal Sentinel’s Georgia Pabst wrote about the campaign last month. The coalition of just over 40 groups wants Common Council to pass legislation that would require the city’s employers to offer employees an hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.

Board President Peter Blewett has introduced the resolution, which will be voted on in committee tonight.

(10) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1719 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Don’t these people have something better to do - like educating the children of Milwaukee? When they start doing that at an “A” level - I’ll start listening to them on business issues - no matter how misguided and ill-conceived they are…

    These people won’t be satisfied until they run every business out of town. We lost another big one today.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 15, 2008 at 1832 hrs


  2. How is that going to increase per-pupil spending?  This vote will not change MPS’s sick leave policy.  If the resolution goes to voters and it passes, it will not change MPS’s sick leave policy.  The only thing being spent, here, is a few minutes at a Board meeting.

    Posted by folkbum on July 15, 2008 at 1835 hrs


  3. Jay is right, it won’t cost any money for MPS.  It’ll just cost money for private employers.  Who cares about them?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 16, 2008 at 0212 hrs


  4. This vote will not change MPS’s sick leave policy

    Are you telling me that MPS provides ~60 days’ sick-leave/year for every full-time employee?

    Posted by dad29 on July 16, 2008 at 0656 hrs


  5. I think the math works out to ~65 hours, not days.

    That’s still eight Fridays everyone can take off with a “24-hr bug.”  I seem to be in the wrong business.

    Posted by HeatherRadish on July 16, 2008 at 0815 hrs


  6. MPS teachers earn about one sick day for every two pay periods (i.e., four weeks), which is within the guidelines of the proposed new law.  The last thing you want is a sick teacher in front of 24 young immune systems.  In fact, I think MPS does a poor job in that its policies encourage teachers not to take sick days even when we’re sick.

    Posted by folkbum on July 16, 2008 at 1212 hrs


  7. You’re joking, right, Jay?  Are you saying that everytime a teacher comes down with a cold, they should call in?  The sub service will love you for that.
    Your attitude about this is why non-teachers have such a pissy attitude toward us.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 16, 2008 at 1425 hrs


  8. Dan, I’ll let the parents comment on whether or not they want their children in a room with an ill teacher.  I think their opinion might differ from yours.

    Posted by folkbum on July 16, 2008 at 1704 hrs


  9. Jay, you’re nuts.

    Kids come home with every disease known to man, and the teachers are not the source.  It’s the OTHER KIDS.

    If you’re telling us that MPS teachers stay home due to a common cold, you’re telling us that MPS teachers are slackers, at best.

    Posted by dad29 on July 16, 2008 at 2137 hrs


  10. Dan, I’ll let the parents comment on whether or not they want their children in a room with an ill teacher.  I think their opinion might differ from yours.

    If it’s a common cold, then I could care less.  As a father of four, my attitude is that exposure to illnesses boosts their immune systems.  Keeping them in a “bubble” until they move out is not good for them.

    Obviously I don’t want my kids to be sick and suffer, but I realize that when they do, it helps build their immunity for the rest of their lives.

    And personally, I think your rant about the possibility of sick teachers infecting students is idiotic.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 17, 2008 at 0958 hrs


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