A teacher, being a member of The Manitoba Teachers' Society Executive Committee or of 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 any branch thereof, and being authorized by the Executive Committee of the Society to attend a meeting of the committee which he/she is a member of or to act as a representative or delegate, shall be excused from school duties for either purpose or both purposes. In any one school year the aggregate number of leave days approved division wide shall not exceed 30 days. In those years that a teacher is elected to the MTS Provincial Executive the aggregate number shall not exceed 35 days.
The cost of providing the substitute teacher shall be assumed by the Society and shall not be a charge upon the Division. No additional leave of absence beyond 30 or 35 days in a school year shall be taken for the purpose mentioned above except with the consent and approval of the Board thereof prior to taking such a leave.
In addition to the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 9.01, any teacher who is elected President of the Garden Valley Teachers’ Association shall be seconded for up to 50% FTE. The Association shall inform the Division of the secondment time for a school year by May 30 of the previous school year. Such time shall be taken at a time mutually agreed to between the Association and the Division.
The Association shall reimburse the Division for all salary and benefits costs of the secondment.
Upon return from the secondment, the teacher shall be placed in the same assignment held by the teacher prior to the secondment, unless there is a mutual agreement between the teacher and the Division to do otherwise.
Leave taken under this article shall not be taken on parent teacher days, professional development days, or administrative days unless the Division has expressly given consent to do so by the Superintendent.