VSEA’s Legal Team won another victory at the Vermont Labor Relations Board (VLRB) this week. This case strikes down DHR’s practice of compelling employees to use annual leave after six weeks of sick leave to cover their own injuries or illnesses, even when they have accrued sick leave. This is a longstanding issue that has frustrated VSEA members for years. The State has been arguing that contract language adopted in 1999 cuts off sick leave after six weeks and requires employees to use all their other paid leave before being eligible to draw on sick leave again. Except in the most serious cases, this effectively caps sick leave usage at six weeks per year. This is a concession that VSEA never agreed to in negotiations.
VSEA’s Communications Department is continuing it’s video series of sit-downs with frontline state employees. In this third installment we sat down with Springfield-based, DOC Correctional Educator, John Vorder Bruegge and talked about what belonging to VSEA means and why the union is important for all state employees. We are pleased to now share this third video!
The VSEA Communications Department thanks John for his time and for his service to Vermonters.
VLRB Issues Unfair Labor Practice To Judiciary, After VSEA Members Contest Management’s Unilateral Implementation Of Cell-Phone Policy
Vermont State Employees’ Association (VSEA) members belonging to the union’s Judiciary Unit applauded news late Friday that the Vermont Labor Relations Board (VLRB) had issued an unfair labor practice (ULP) against Judiciary management for recently circumventing the bargaining process to unilaterally implement a cell-phone policy in the Washington County Courts office.
