A teacher, being a member of The Manitoba Teachers’ Society Executive Committee, or the Executive Committee of any branch thereof, or of any special committee of the Society, or being appointed an official representative or delegate of the Society or of any branch thereof, and being authorized by the Executive Committee of the Society to attend a meeting of the committee of which he/she is a member, or to act as a representative or delegate of the Society or of any branch of the Society in a matter of Society business requiring absence from school, shall have the right to attend such meetings or to act as such representative or delegate and shall be excused from school duties for either purpose or both purposes on not more than a total of twelve (12) teaching days in any school year.
A part time President of the Association and any teacher elected or appointed to the Disability Benefits Plan Case Management Committee or the Disability Benefits Plan Committee, shall be allowed a total of fifteen (15) days in any school year, provided that a substitute satisfactory to the Division can be secured and that the cost of providing such a substitute is assumed by the Society.
Any teacher elected to the Provincial Executive, to a maximum of two (2) teachers, shall be allowed a total of forty (40) days per teacher in any school year, provided that a substitute satisfactory to the Division can be secured and that the cost of providing such a substitute is assumed by the Society. Leave of Absence days described in this paragraph are not a part of the one hundred (100) day total stipulated in the following paragraph.
No additional Leave of Absence beyond the stipulated number of days in a school year shall be taken for the purposes mentioned above, except with the consent of the Division. No more than twelve (12) teachers shall take such leave on any one day and no more than a total of one hundred (100) days of such leave shall be taken during any school year by all members of the Association without the prior approval of the Division. Time required by teachers to attend grievance or interest arbitrations within the Division shall not be counted within the aforesaid maximums.
Upon the application by the Association, the Division shall provide the President of the Brandon Teachers’ Association a leave of absence, based on the Association’s choice, of either fifty percent (50%) or one hundred (100%) of the teacher’s assignment in any one (1) school year.
Application for the leave shall be made no later than the last teaching day of April for the leave in the following school year. Unusual or exceptional circumstances which preclude the making of the application by the last teaching day of April shall be considered by the Division.
Conditions related to the leave of absence are as follows:
a) The Association shall reimburse the Division for all salary and benefit costs.
b) The teacher returning from a leave of two (2) years or less shall be placed in the same or similar position held by the teacher prior to the leave unless there is an agreement between the teacher and the Division to do otherwise.
c) A teacher returning from a leave of more than two (2) years shall be placed in a position for which the teacher has the qualifications and ability to perform the work.
On each occasion that a teacher is elected Vice-president or President of the Manitoba Teachers' Society, he/she shall apply for secondment no later than the last teaching day of April for the following school year. He or she shall be seconded for two full school years, subject to the following conditions:
a) A teacher who wishes to return to active service with the Division at the start of the next school year shall provide written notice of that intention no later than the last teaching day in April in a given year. Unusual or exceptional circumstances which preclude the employee from providing notice by the last teaching day in April shall be considered by the Division.
b) A teacher who returns to active service with the Division upon completion of no more than two (2) years shall be placed in the same or similar position held by the teacher prior to the secondment unless there is an agreement between the teacher and the Division to do otherwise.
c) A teacher who returns to active service with the Division after more than two (2) years shall be placed in a position for which he/she has the qualifications and ability to perform the work.
d) The Manitoba Teachers' Society shall reimburse the Division for all salary and benefit costs.