The daily rates of pay for substitute teachers shall be as follows:
- Certified: $180.00
- Non-certified: $130.00
For the purpose of the 2014-2018 Collective Agreement, the aforementioned daily rates will take effect on the day of signing of this Agreement.
As of the first day of the fall semester 2015, the daily rates of pay for substitute teachers shall be as follows:
- Certified: $183.60
- Non-certified: $132.60
As of the first day of the fall semester 2016, the daily rates of pay for substitute teachers shall be as follows:
- Certified: $187.27
- Non-certified: $135.25
As of the first day of the fall semester 2017, the daily rates of pay for substitute teachers shall be as follows:
- Certified: $190.08
- Non-certified: $137.28
As of the first day of January 2018, the daily rates of pay for substitute teachers shall be as follows:
- Certified: $192.93
- Non-certified: $139.34
A substitute teacher is hired by the Division to replace a regular teacher or to assume a short term teaching assignment of less than twenty (20) days.
A substitute teacher who assumes the teaching workload of a teacher for five (5) consecutive school days or more must be classified in the category of extended substitute teaching.
Upon commencement of the sixth (6th) day of an extended substitute teaching assignment, a substitute teacher shall be paid for each day taught at the per diem rate, to be calculated as 1/x of the salary to which a teacher of the same qualifications and experience would be entitled under the basic salary schedule of the current collective agreement, where x equals the number of days in the current school year. This rate of pay shall be retroactive to the first day of the teaching assignment and shall continue in effect until the end of that specific extended substitute teaching assignment.
In-service days, administrative days and school closure days shall not constitute a break in the consecutive days for that specific teaching assignment.
In addition, Where during an extended substitute teaching assignment, the substitute teacher becomes unavailable to work due to attending what would be described as a family related emergency or for the death or serious illness of the substitute teacher’s immediate family or for attending to MTS or Association business as a representative of the Association, and where the substitute teacher returns to the extended teacher assignment immediately thereafter such unavailability, such days of unavailability as noted above shall not constitute a break in extended substitute teaching.
The definition of “immediate family” for the above clause shall be consistent with the current collective agreement.
A substitute teacher who has been employed for at least twenty (20) days extended substitute teaching shall, on the twenty-first (21st) day, be signed to a Limited Term Teacher – General Contract, unless the return of the regular teacher or conclusion of the substitute assignment is immediately imminent.
Notwithstanding the above paragraph, every time it is known that the extended substitute teaching assignment will last at least twenty (20) days, the substitute teacher must sign a Limited Term Teacher – General Contract.
A substitute teacher who has been employed for at least nine (9) consecutive days of an extended substitute teaching assignment in a school year shall be entitled to one (1) day of sick leave with pay for each nine (9) days taught in that assignment. Sick leave shall not accumulate from assignment to assignment.
The use of sick leave with pay shall not constitute an interruption of an extended substitute teaching assignment.
The following articles of the collective agreement apply to substitute teachers:
Article 1 Purpose
Article 2 Recognition
Article 3 Effective Period
Article 4 Deduction of Professional Fees
Article 5 Dispute Settlement Provisions
The only matters which may be grieved under Article 5 by a substitute teacher or the Association on behalf of a substitute teacher are the provisions of this Article, and the substantive rights and obligations of employment-related and human rights statutes, to the extent that they are incorporated into this collective agreement.
Article 6 Liaison Committee
Article 7 School Committees
Article 9 Salary Schedules
Article 9 shall apply in so much as it relates to the conversion to daily remuneration in accordance with paragraph 13.02.
Article 10 Paragraphs 10.01, 10.04 and 10.05 shall apply in so much as they relate to the conversion to daily remuneration in accordance with paragraph 13.02.
Article 12 Paragraphs 12.02, 12.03, 12.04 and 12.05
Pay relating to the salary earned by substitute teachers during any month shall be forwarded to those teachers not later than the fifteenth ( 15th) day of the following calendar month, unless another remuneration structure is in place.
Article 13 Substitute Teachers
Article 26 Personnel Files
Article 27 Harassment
Article 28 Freedom from Violence
Article 30 Meal Period
Article 31 Complaints Against Teachers
Article 33 Religious Instruction and Practices
A substitute teacher who has been asked to accept an assignment and who reports to work finding that his or her services are not required shall be offered an alternative assignment equivalent in time to the substitute teacher’s original assignment.
Unless otherwise determined at the time of the assignment, or except in unforeseen circumstances, the timetable for a substitute teacher in any assignment shall normally be the same as the timetable as the teacher who is being replaced.
All of the above rates are inclusive of vacation pay.