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VSEA is congratulating 20-year member Barbara Kessler on being picked to command the Royalton Barracks, making her just the third woman to ever hold the post.
“She is an incredibly valuable member of the command staff and she has proven herself over the years,” says Vermont State Police Director Col. Matthew Birmingham. “She is incredibly professional and we have a lot of confidence in her. It only made sense that she would be a great fit to run the Royalton station.”
Barbara was an active VSEA member and served several years as a member of the VSEA Supervisory Unit Bargaining Team.
Here is what VSEA sent to members on Friday:
VSEA learned today that the Vermont Supreme Court has confirmed that the State has been violating contractural language when it caps sick leave at 6 weeks a year for VSEA members who have serious illnesses or injuries. The Court affirmed the decision of the VLRB that the state has misinterpreted the so-called “cascade” provisions of the Parental and Family Leave Article of the three Executive Branch contracts.
The Court and the Board both found that the State and VSEA negotiated the current Parental and Family Leave Article in 1999 with the explicit intention to protect sick leave and other benefits found elsewhere in the contract. The State honored that agreement for almost 15 years and then began to apply the so-called cascade to cap the use of sick leave at 6 weeks.
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