Personnel Management

• Recruitment and hiring of new staff begins with the posting of job opportunities on School Spring. School Spring is a web-based service that matches prospective employees with jobs. You can check out our openings and apply by clicking on our job postings link: http://www.schoolspring.com/jobs/?employer=10947
• Processing is the next step once a new employee is appointed. This is place where all the paper work is done to make you officially a member of our staff.
• Requests for leaves of absence are processed here.
• When its time to retire we help employees to begin the process.

Record Management/Control

• All personnel records are securely maintained here in our department. You may access your personnel file by calling the office to make an appointment to view it or request a copy.
• Here we manage professional staff license compliance. We can help employees with documentation for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. http://www.doe.mass.edu
• Requests for reimbursement for course work are processed here first and then sent to payroll.
• Documentation for Category Change for professional staff is processed here.

Benefits Management

• We work with the business department to assure that employees have all the correct deductions made for retirement, insurance and taxes.
• Information about pension benefits and retirement can be found by accessing the websites:
• Teachers can go to the Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System website at http://www.mass.gov/mtrs
• Non- teaching, full time employees who are enrolled in the Middlesex Retirement System can access information at http://www.middlesexretirement.org
• Part time employees who are enrolled in the Massachusetts Deferred Compensation Plan [457(b)] can access information at http://www.mass.gov/smartplan/participate/obrainfo.htm
• Questions about benefits can be answered in the human resource department or business department.

Civil Rights Protection

• Discrimination based on a protected status (age, gender, race, color, national origin, religion, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation) is against the law and is a violation of district policy. If an employee believes that his or her civil rights have been violated they can seek a remedy by calling Barbara Conti, grievance officer for the district.

Staff Development /Training

• Our department is responsible for providing new employees with an orientation program.
• The H.R department maintains an up-to-date employee handbook.
• Mandated yearly training for employees which includes the hazardous materials right to know law, civil rights and sexual harassment prevention.

You can reach the Human Resources Department by calling the Central Office at 978-597-8713 or you can stop by at 23 Main Street, Townsend MA.