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PSS acts to avert teachers exodus
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Posted on Dec 14 1998
The Public School System has temporarily waived the 10 percent liquidated damages clause provided in the employment contract as a move to account the number of teachers who will not return after the Christmas break.
In a memorandum, Commissioner of Education Rita H. Inos offers this one time deal to teachers who will terminate their contracts in the middle of the school year provided they will notify her office on or before Friday.
Based on its personnel handbook, employees who resign within their first two years of employment shall pay 10 percent of their annual salary as liquidated damages and in payment of any attorney’s fees incurred.
This clause provided in the contract allows PSS to withhold this amount from the employee’s pending paycheck or lump sum.
“This waiver is being offered not as an inducement for teachers to leave the PSS family, but instead as an incentive to ensure that we receive notification before classes resume in January,” she said in the letter.
Together with this waiver, PSS will also keep them on the payroll up to December 31, 1998.
According to reports, there will be an exodus of teachers after the Christmas break. Inos seeks appropriate advise from teachers about their plans for next year to accurately allocate resources for January.
