Inside HR Services

Training calendar set for 2009–10

The HR Services training calendar for 2009–10 will be posted on line by May 1, with plenty of new and improved course offerings from which to choose. HR courses to be offered at TASB next year include the following:

• Get a Grip on the Family and Medical Leave Act (new)
• Pay Controls for Large Districts (new)
• Staffing Public Schools (new)
• Thirteen Ways to Take Your Leave (new)
• Wage and Hour Rules for Public Schools
• Fundamentals of Pay Systems

The annual TASB/TASPA Personnel Academy will be held on Nov. 2–3, 2009. Go to hrservices.tasb.org next month and mark your calendar for the training events you want to attend.

Send us your survey feedback

The final Salaries and Benefits in Texas Public Schools survey report on extra-duty stipends  was posted on myTASB for HR Services members in March. Many thanks to all of our members who participated in the surveys for 2008–09. We now turn our attention to planning for the next survey cycle beginning in July. If you have any comments or suggestions for survey improvements for the coming year we want to hear it. Call us at 800-580-7782 or write us at salary.survey@tasb.org.

HR Services advisory group meets

HR leaders from 15 large districts met at TASB in early March to discuss topics for HR survey development. Participating districts included Austin, Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Corpus Christi, Cypress-Fairbanks, El Paso, Frisco, Humble, Hurst-Euless Bedford, Irving, North East, Plano, Round Rock, Tyler, and Ysleta. The group identified four topics for data collection and reporting through HR Surveys in DataCentral. These topics include employee absences, teacher retention, staffing formulas, and organization of HR departments. There are now 335 districts out of the total 922 members of HR Services that subscribe to DataCentral.