The VSEA Awards/Scholarships Committee is currently soliciting applications from students seeking financial assistance in the pursuit of post-secondary educational goals.
The Committee will announce the recipients of the scholarships at the June Council Meeting.
Deadline: 4:30 p.m. on May 13, 2022
Learn more or view/download the 2022 VSEA scholarship application here.
VSEA issued the following press release this afternoon:
With VSEA’s support, two Department for Children and Families (DCF) temporary workers have filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) to challenge their temporary classification. In addition, VSEA has sent a letter to Department of Human Resources (DHR) Commissioner Fastiggi, reporting on VSEA’s findings from more than three years of data collection on statewide temporary employment.
The two employees, Mallory McGurn and Mary Collins, work a regular, part-time schedule every week, recruiting and supporting foster parents. They have worked in their jobs for more than two years, and the work is expected to continue indefinitely. The State has seized on their part-time status and declared them to be “temporary”, depriving them of any legal rights, leave benefits, or step increases that would be provided to them as non-temporary employees.
The data, which was analyzed by VSEA Second Vice President Leslie Matthews, Ph.D. and General Counsel Tim Belcher, shows that the State employs hundreds of employees in ongoing jobs, working a significant number of hours on a regular basis, and deprives them of rights and benefits by misclassifying them as temporary workers. Some have worked in this capacity for years and even decades.
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