Date: April 25, 2012

From: Mark W. McLeod, Faculty Senator, History Department

To: Jeff Jordan, Faculty Senate President

CC. Karren Helsel-Spry, Faculty Senate Secretary

RE.: Motion Respectfully Submitted to bring Faculty Handbook in line with the current Collective Bargaining Agreement in respect to Personnel Policies for Faculty.

WHEREAS, the current edition of the Faculty Handbook, Section 4: Personnel Policies for Faculty, reads “If the faculty member is the primary caregiver, one such option is to be granted a one semester administered load that allows a choice of either partial or full relief from teaching during the semester of the birth or the adoption of a child under the age of five by the faculty member or immediately following the birth or adoption,” and,

WHEREAS, this wording reflects the prior Collective Bargaining Agreement, which has been replaced in the current current (2010-2013) Collective Bargaining Agreement, 9.16, with the following wording, “If the faculty member is the primary caregiver, he or she will be granted a one semester administered load that allows the faculty member a choice of either partial or full relief from teaching during the semester of the birth or the adoption of a child under the age of five by the faculty member or immediately following the birth or adoption,” and,

WHEREAS, reliance on the current Faculty Handbook’s outdated wording may cause Chairpersons, Directors, and other persons in authority wrongly to deny contractually promised benefits to petitioning faculty members based on the mistaken assumption that provision of such mandated benefits is merely optional, and because the resulting conflicts may result in legal and other proceedings deleterious to the good name of the University of Delaware, be it therefore

RESOLVED, that the Faculty Senate Recommends that the Faculty Handbook be changed so that the current phrase stating, “If the faculty member is the primary caregiver, one such option is to be granted a one semester administered load that allows a choice of either partial or full relief from teaching during the semester of the birth or the adoption of a child under the age of five by the faculty member or immediately following the birth or adoption,” be changed to state, as does the 2010-2013 Collective Bargaining Agreement, 9.16, “If the faculty member is the primary caregiver, he or she will be granted a one semester administered load that allows the faculty member a choice of either partial or full relief from teaching during the semester of the birth or the adoption of a child under the age of five by the faculty member or immediately following the birth or adoption.”