As the district shifts to staff retention and recruitment for the upcoming year, the focus on wellness continues with the Board’s recent approval of mental health days amongst its new list of paid leave days for staff.
DEC (Local) is the policy that houses the district’s regulations on employee leave and now states that staff will receive an additional three (3) local leave days with two of the three days classified as mental health days and available once each semester.
The additional leave days began with a review of the district’s DEC Local policy initiated by DeSoto ISD Trustee Dr. Tiffany Clark, who has a background in education and counseling.
In addition to the three local leave days, the trustees approved the Human Resources Department’s request to update the sick leave policy shifting the district from the sick leave pool concept to the sick leave bank.
The total of state and local leave days is 10 for district employees.
