Philadelphia Federation of Teachers School District of Philadelphia

hundred and fifty-five dollars ($155) per year for each employee covered by this
Agreement payable at the rate of seven dollars and seventy-five cents ($7.75)
per employee per pay period for twenty (20) full bi-weekly pay periods each
school year. Effective beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, the School District
shall pay to said Trust Fund one hundred and sixty-five dollars ($165) per
year for each employee covered by this Agreement payable at the rate of eight
dollars and twenty-five cents ($8.25) per employee per pay period for twenty
(20) full bi-weekly pay periods each school year.
2. It is further agreed that there shall be established a qualified group legal
services plan of which the aforedescribed Trust Fund shall form a part, pursuant
to the provisions of Section 120 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of
1954, as amended.
3. The purposes of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Legal Services
shall be to provide for the exclusive benefit of employees, their spouses or
dependents’ specified benefits consisting of personal legal services through prepayment
of, or provision in advance for, legal fees in whole or part. Exclusions
and Limitations of the Plan shall include at a minimum matters involving as
adverse parties any of the following: the Plan, any Employer or any agent of the
Plan or Employer, the Trust or any Trustee.
4. The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Legal Services Trust Fund shall
have such places of business as the Trustees in their discretion may from time to
time direct. The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Legal Services Trust Fund
shall be operated in the same manner as the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
Health and Welfare Trust Fund by a Board of eight (8) Trustees, six (6) of
whom shall be appointed by the Federation and two (2) of whom shall be
appointed by the School District or its designee.
5. All provisions above which are applicable to the Philadelphia Federation
of Teachers Health and Welfare Trust Fund, with respect to the Trustees’ authority
to establish rules and regulations regarding coverage, amounts of benefits,
eligibility, methods of providing and/or arranging for the provision of benefits,
investments of funds and other related matters; to leaves of absence for School
District employees working for the Fund, to prorating the payments of employees
who cease working for the School District; to the methods and times of
payments of amounts to the Fund; and to the title of the monies paid to the
Fund, shall be fully applicable to the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Legal
Services Trust Fund to the extent permissible under applicable law.
H. career Development
1. The School District and Federation agree to create a Career Development
Fund for the purpose of assisting the bargaining unit members in career development.
Towards this end, the School District shall contribute the sum of four
hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) on an annual basis for the purpose of
tuition reimbursement.
2. The School District and Federation agree to create a Joint Committee
comprised of two (2) representatives appointed by the Superintendent and/or
CEO and two (2) representatives appointed from the Federation who shall
have the authority to implement and oversee this program.
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