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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny how the school is okay with operating without a real HoS for the majority of the school year but can’t operate for a few more days (weeks?) without the LS Director who was trying to extend maternity leave a bit to care for a newborn. In a pandemic. The rough decision to deny saved PTO could very well end in in a lawsuit, adding to the financial stress that the school is already feeling.

This has to send a bad vibe to faculty/staff and parents alike. Probably a wake up call to those not already looking for other jobs for next school year, which appear to be plentiful especially for those who demonstrated teaching in person during the past year.[/quote]

Or, it’s possible the employee didn’t understand how FMLA works. It’s unpaid, but you’re able to use PTO while on unpaid leave. And you don’t accrue PTO while on FMLA. And you have to use 2 weeks of leave before short term disability starts. (I’m assuming that the employee handbook is fairly standard, but that’s how it generally works unless the company gives you greater benefits). So, like many employees who aren’t employment lawyers or HR professionals, she probably didn’t realize how all this worked and miscalculated what she had to work with and used all of her PTO during her leave. Happens all the time. They probably made the decision to eliminate the position a while ago but had to wait until the leave was finished.

Bad vibe? Maybe, but probably not illegal.[/quote]

I work at the school and can share what our "maternity leave" policy is. FMLA is unpaid for 12 weeks, Short-Term Disability is 2/3 pay for half of that time. You must use 5 days of PTO at the start of your FMLA while waiting for STD to kick-in. If you have PTO left after that, it is up to the HOS whether or not to approve you using it once your FMLA has expired. There have been other BASIS employees who have been able to take PTO post FMLA leave either to either extend their time off or to ease back part-time. I'm not sure how many days the Director had left or was requesting, but given her level of seniority and the length of time she worked at the school, it was definitely more than 5 days. She had the days but the interim HOS would not give permission for her to take them, even given this unique situation in the middle of a pandemic. This place is heartless and just unfortunately doesn't care about employees like they are human beings. I agree with the previous poster that they had probably made the decision to eliminate the position a while ago and this made it easy for the school to follow-through with that :( It will be interesting to see what the leadership team looks like next year...[/quote]

That's the typical BIM management culture that many parents never see; they blow happy smoke up everyone's backside and make tons of promises, then when it's time to wield the axe, the interim HOS (former Head of Ops) sits down and tells people with no warning that they have been canned.  There are no contracts at BIM, just at will employment.

I'm amazed that anyone stays there given the atmosphere of a sword always ready to drop on the next unwitting victim.[/quote]

So.... there is a lot of truth to this, but the other reality is that those decisions are frequently made at the central level - meaning it's BASIS Independent Schools management that makes them, not necessarily the staff in McLean. This is a big part of why those decisions can seem so cold and detached - they're not being made in the building but they are being executed in the building.[/quote]

True.  The net result is that BIM faculty can never rely on anything they are told in the building.  It creates the "toxic work culture" that gets referred to so often there. Plus it indicates an organization with zero class or integrity.[/quote]

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