LEAVES & ABSENCES
This type of absence will negatively impact an employee's performance points at a rate of 25 points deducted for each offense.
What is an Unapproved Absence?
Employees who have these must ensure that they are covered while on duty serving in a role with direct interaction with students, including wearing long-sleeve shirts, lost pants, high socks, bandages or other means to appropriately cover them.
What are tattoo's?
The wage scales for all staff are approved by this group of people.
What is the Spring ISD Board of Trustees?
Drivers are required to do this fifteen (15) minutes prior to their scheduled departure time. Failure to do so is considered being tardy.
What is Clock-In?
All Spring ISD employees who operate a school bus are required to hold a Class B Commercial Driver's License with these two (2) endorsements.
Also known as Non-discretionary state personal business leave, this type of leave is to be used for personal illness, illness in the employee's immediate family, family emergency, or death in the employee's immediate family.
What is Sick Leave?
This piece of clothing must be of a length such that the shortest part of the hem extends to at least the middle of the calf while in a standing position.
What is a Skirt?
What is 180 days?
Buses are to be fueled when the fuel level is at or below this point.
What is a 1/2-tank?
In accordance with requirements set forth by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), each school bus driver's _____ _____ will be reviewed at least annually.
What is Driving Record?
This term is used for when an employee is absent from duty without making the required notification for three (3) or more consecutive workdays and having their employment with Spring ISD terminated.
What is Job Abandonment?
What are Dress Code Release Days? (Uniform Release Days).
According to page 17, failure to submit this form may result in loss of pay, and in frequent or repeated cases, disciplinary action.
What is a Missed Punch form?
These employees must maintain a Non-violent Crisis Intervention through CPI & are responsible for assisting in the loading & unloading of students includes both ambulatory and non-ambulatory.
All bus drivers are responsible for maintaining a current edition of this credential by renewing every three (3) years with an 8-hour refresher course.
What is a Texas DPS sponsored School Bus Driver Training Certification?
What is a No Call/No Show?
Due to the safety-sensitive nature of the transportation environment, these devices shall not be worn while on duty to reduce distractions leading to personal injury.
What is a Bluetooth Device? (Hands-free telephone device).
After one year of employment, bus drivers and attendants may elect to participate in this program in which their wages for the following school year will be pro-rated over twenty-four (24) paychecks providing income during holidays and summer vacation.
What is Even pay?
Bus drivers are expected to use these appropriate, and approved techniques to ensure and maintain student safety on the bus.
What is Student Management?
Each bus driver is required to be registered in THIS system and grant consent to each entity for which he/she operates in a safety-sensitive position allowing the employer to run annual queries for drug alcohol violations.
What is FMCSA Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse.
This type of leave is allowed for persons employed for 6-8 hours per day & is earned at the rate of one-half workday for each 18 workdays of employment, up to the statutory maximum of five workdays annually.
What is State Personal Business Leave?
What is a Closed-Heel?
What is Supplemental?
As required by Spring ISD Board policy DH (Local), drivers have this much time to notify their immediate supervisor of any arrest, indictment, conviction, no contest or guilty plea, or other adjudication of the employee for any felony, any offense involving moral turpitude, and any other offenses as indicated in the policy.
What is three (3) calendar days?
This term is used to identify a driver who has failed to meet the physical requirements outlined by the state of Texas to driver a school bus, and could result in being immediately removed from any driving duties.
What is Medically Disqualified?