Education Policy

anelr

Good afternoon!

Does anyone have an education policy in their employee handbook they'd like to share. We are having some issues where managers are allowing their employees to schedule their college courses during their work hours. We only have a Education Policy that states our tuition reimbursement. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

cnghr

Our education policy only covers tuition reimbursement, also. We've occasionally had managers allow one of their employees to schedule a class during working hours, but that's only been when the employee was a long-time, reliable, responsible employee who they knew wouldn't abuse it.

Since it really has never become a problem for us, we haven't seen the need to address it in the policy, but if we did add it, we'd probably treat it much like our Outside Employment policy, which states that "no employee is to have an outside interest which will materially encroach on the time or attention which should be devoted to the employee's corporate duties."

Still Need Coffee

We handle this sort of situation with a Scheduling Agreement between the employee and the company. This agreement more or less replaces the section of our handbook defining work hours. We've found it to be pretty useful.

neveradull

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]20.1 [/COLOR][U][COLOR=#000000]Educational Leave[/COLOR][/U][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000](a) [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]The Executive Director, or designee, may authorize leave with pay, not to exceed 5 hours a week, to employees attending approved educational institutions in order to attend classes which are of immediate benefit to the employee’s functions at KCR and which supplement the employee’s professional development goals. [/COLOR][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000](b) [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]Requests for approval for educational leave should contain a statement of justification and job relatedness, define long-range objectives, and be signed by the Division Director. A copy of the approved request is filed in the employee’s personnel folder.[/COLOR][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000](c) [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]Continued eligibility for educational leave is dependent upon the employee’s satisfactory completion of the course work. Subsequent requests for educational leave must be accompanied by a copy of official grades, or a transcript, from prior approved courses/programs.[/COLOR][/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]While our policy doesn't state it educational leave is rarely granted and occurs[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]when a required course is only given during work hours. This sometimes happens[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]as a student gets close to gaining his/her degree.[/COLOR][/FONT]

anelr

Thank you so much for the information.