Employee Benefits for Certificated Staff
District 25 offers a comprehensive benefits package to those individuals who are employed on a full-time basis or who qualify for job sharing. The benefits package includes:
- Health/Life Insurance - The insurance program available to full-time employees includes medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. The Board of Education covers the full cost single dental, single vision insurance, and a $50,000 term life insurance policy. Both the Board and employee contribute to medical insurance per the Teacher's contract. The remaining insurance plans are participatory.
- Sick Leave - Certificated staff working at least half time are afforded access up to 15 Sick Leave Days per year (accumulating up to 355 days) and the district's Sick Leave Bank.
- Emergency Personal Business - Three Emergency Personal Business Days are provided. Unused Emergency Days are converted into Sick Leave Days and allowed to accumulate.
- Bereavement Leave - Up to four days of Bereavement Leave are available to staff.
- Job Sharing - Once an individual is employed in the district, they may choose to participate in our Job-Sharing Program. By sharing a position in the district, both individuals may continue their career, gain service credit, advance on the salary schedule, participate in the district's insurance program and still work on a part-time basis with a guarantee of full-time employment (assuming satisfactory performance) at the employee's request.
- Leaves of Absence - After four consecutive years of satisfactory full-time employment in a certificated position within the district, staff members become tenured. Once tenured, a number of leave options for advanced training, parenting, foreign service teaching, etc. are available for up to a maximum of two years. All approved leaves of absence have a guarantee of employment upon return.
- Retirement Enhancement - A strong Retirement Enhance Program is offered to certificated staff with a least ten or more years service in the district. The district's program is offered in addition to the State of Illinois' Teachers' Retirement System retirement program.
For more information about the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System, visit the TRS Web site (www.trs.state.il.us).
Employee Benefits for Non-Certificated Staff
District 25 offers a comprehensive benefits package to those individuals who are employed on a full-time basis. The benefits package includes:
- Health/Life Insurance - The insurance program available to full-time employees includes medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. The Board of Education covers the full cost of single dental, single vision insurance, and a $50,000 term life insurance policy. Both the Board and employee contribute to medical insurance per the Teacher's contract. The remaining insurance plans are participatory.
- Sick Leave - For those individuals working at least 17.5 hours per week, the district provides up to 15 Sick Leave Days per year (accumulating to 240 days) and access to the Sick Leave Bank.
- Emergency Personal Business - Three Emergency Personal Business Days are provided to non-certificated employees who work at least 30 hours per week. Unused Emergency Days are converted into Sick Leave Days and allowed to accumulate.
- Bereavement Leave - Up to four days of Bereavement Leave are available to full-time non-certificated staff.
- Retirement Enhancement - A strong Retirement Enhance Program is offered to selected categories of non-certificated staff (secretaries and teaching assistants) with a least fifteen or more years service in the district. This enhancement program is offered in addition to the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund program, which is available to all non-certificated employees who work more than 17.5 hours per week for at least eight years.
- Paid Vacation - All benefited twelve-month employees are entitled to paid vacation. Depending upon experience in the district, non-certificated employees are entitled to at least ten days of paid vacation, with the maximum set at twenty days of paid vacation.
For more information about the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, visit the IMRF Web site (www.imrf.org).
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1200 S. Dunton Avenue
Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005