Glendale Unified and its teachers union appear headed for battle over furlough days scheduled for 2012-13, just months after they eliminated similar dates from the current school year.
District officials announced this week they had reached an agreement with classified and management staff to defer four furlough days on the books for 2012-13 to the following year. It restores a full schedule, and full pay, for those employees for the coming school year.
“While the districts needs the flexibility of having the furlough days in multi-year budget projections while state budgets are so unpredictable, our intention is to keep them far enough in the future that they may never have to be used,” Assistant Supt. for Human Resources David Samuelson said in a statement. “In this chaotic budget environment, we're taking things year-to-year, but we hope to re-establish a full school year for next year in our negotiations with the [union].”