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Every year, the VSEA Awards & Scholarship Committee solicits scholarship applications from VSEA members and their spouses, dependents and domestic partners. The 2017 scholarship applications are now available online, and VSEA students who are seeking financial assistance this year in the pursuit of post-secondary educational goals can download one here.
Deadline For Applications Is May 8, 2017!
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This afternoon, the Department of Human Resources released a list of "Frequently Asked Questions" to try to address the health and safety concerns of the employees who were recently displaced from State offices on Eastern Avenue in St. Johnsbury. The FAQ also instructs employees on protocol and next steps.
VSEA hopes this document is useful not only to the current employees who were displaced, but also to the state employees who worked at the building and retired, or who worked there at some point in their career and always had questions or concerns.
After a recent, long and well-documented contract fight with the Vermont Court Administrator, VSEA members belonging to the Judiciary Unit were finally able to ratify a new contract in December 2016. The vote to ratify included an agreement from management to conduct an employee wage review, which was completed and found in favor of raises for the Judiciary workers.
