Burke County Public Schools
Helpful Resources from Human Resources - February 2021
As our employees begin to receive the vaccine for COVID-19, we realize that some employees may have side effects to the vaccine. If an employee has a fever over 100 degrees, they should notify their school nurse and not report to work until they have been fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication.
Contagious Disease Leave
In order to help protect the public health and safeguard the well-being of public school employees, Contagious Disease Leave is available to employees of Burke County Public Schools.
Contagious Disease Leave may be granted to employees for the following:
- Employees who are sick due to symptoms consistent with COVID-19
- Employees who have members of their household who are sick due to symptoms of COVID-19
- Employees who are quarantined because of exposure to someone positive with COVID-19
Please check with your immediate supervisor if you need more information about Contagious Leave.
Also, a new feature of our newsletter will be a section called Live Well, Work Well, This month's Live Well, Work Well features information on heart health, as well as preventing job burnout.
Click here to view the Calendar of Events for the NC Retirement System and register for an information session.
Plan on retiring this school year? Please contact Rocky Epely at 439-4301 to set up an appointment.
Any employee that misses or anticipates missing three or more days of work due to a serious health condition (including maternity leaves) should contact Tammy Huffman at 439-4322 about completing FMLA paperwork.
An employee returning to work from FMLA must provide their immediate supervisor and the HR Department with a Return to Work note from their healthcare provider before resuming job duties and responsibilities.
Teachers can check their CEU's by logging into their TimeKeeper account.
Attached below are the CEU requirements for the 2020-2021 school year.
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Do you have a certificate that needs to be added to your CEU report? Click here for the step by step directions on how to submit your certificate.
When entering information in TimeKeeper, if the professional development activity was in the area of technology, please make sure you choose "Digital Learning". Technology is no longer required. The new term DPI uses for this credit is "Digital Learning".
Have you entered a professional development activity into TimeKeeper and it was rejected? If so, you can click on the activity and find out the reason it was rejected.
An appointment is required for any employee that needs to change their legal name. After an employee receives their new driver's license and social security card, they can contact Tammy Huffman at 439-4322 to schedule an appointment to officially change their name with Burke County Public Schools.
Human Resources Directory
439-4325
Rocky Epley - Licensure, Retirement, and NCEES
439-4301
Tammy Huffman - Benefits (State Health Plan and Pierce Group Flexible Benefits), Substitutes, Frontline (AESOP), and FMLA (includes maternity leave)
439-4322
Debbie Story - Transcripts, Volunteers, and CEU's
439-4323
Department of Human Resources
Website: www.burke.k12.nc.us
Location: 700 East Parker Road, Morganton, NC, USA
Phone: 828-439-4323
Twitter: @BCPS_HR