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It was just brought to my attention that the five days of verification leave (if you qualified) that was to payout during the month of May is actually on our next pay of April 22, 2022.  You can verify the numer of hours you were paid by looking at your paystub that is not in ESS.

I apologize for the short notice by unfortunately, I was never notified by OA as I had indicated at our February General Membership meeting.

I will also take this opportunity to remind you that if you have excess annual leave showing under Annual Leave Ext under your leave quotas, you have until the

Brothers and Sisters,

Happy New Year from FOSCEP!  This will serve as official notification of the General Membership Meeting, which is scheduled for February 14, 2022 via ZOOM at 12 noon.  

Please RSVP by February 4th to foscep@comcast.net .  The ZOOM information will be provided upon receiving your RSVP. 

If you do not RSVP you will not be able to gain access into the meeting. 

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Tina Weaver – President

Kevin Mock – Vice President

Dara DeRoiste – Treasurer

Jenna Solomon - Secretary

FOSCEP Brothers and Sisters,

In accordance with the Governor’s announcement on August 25, 2020, the Commonwealth is instituting a Paid Parental Leave program, to be effective October 15, 2020 for those employees who work in agencies under the Governor’s jurisdiction, in accordance with the following parameters:
 

• Up to six (6) weeks of Paid Parental Leave may be utilized by full-time (225/240 hours) or part-time (prorated based on regular hours worked) permanent employees who have been continuously employed by the Commonwealth for the immediate twelve (12) months preceding a qualifying event and

FOSCEP Brothers and Sisters,

Due to the current state of emergency related to the coronavirus pandemic, the Commonwealth is temporarily increasing the five (5) day limitation on Sick Family Leave usage in each calendar year to a fifteen (15) day limitation on Sick Family Leave usage within a calendar year.

This modification will retroactively take effect March 30, 2020 and will expire with the expiration of the Governor's Proclamation of Disaster Emergency or the end of the current calendar year whichever occurs sooner.

Upon expiration of this modification, the temporary increase to fifteen (15)

AFT is now offering an additional benefit of trauma counseling.

We’re very excited about this new benefit and hope you are too. If you have any questions about this or other benefit programs, please contact AFT National at aftplus@aft.org. Thank you.

Tina Weaver
President, FOSCEP Local 2382

FOSCEP Brothers and Sisters,

Please read the note below forwarded to us by OA regarding excess annual leave:

Commonwealth employees represented by your organization have the ability to carry-over unused Annual Leave from year-to-year subject to a defined maximum outlined in your collective bargaining agreement (CBA)/memorandum of understanding (MOU).

If an employee is unable to utilize such excess leave by the end of the year, they are automatically granted an extension of seven (7) pay periods into the next year to utilize such excess leave. The current deadlines associated with this seven (7)

The FOSCEP office is temporarily closed due to the closure of the AFL-CIO Building in downtown Harrisburg. We will update our office status here as soon as the building is reopened.