a) Leave Without Pay
i) Leave of absence for public and/or community service not exceeding one (1) day per year may be granted at the discretion of the Superintendent.
ii) Leave of absence for public and/or community service exceeding one (1) day per year may be granted by the Board at its discretion. Application for such leave to be made through the Superintendent to the Board.
iii) Leave of absence for personal reasons not exceeding one (1) day per year may be granted at the discretion of the Superintendent. Such leave may not be used for vacations or to extend vacations.
iv) Leave of absence for personal reasons exceeding one (1) day, but not more than two (2) days per year, may be granted by the Board at its discretion. Application for such leave to be made through the Superintendent to the Board. Such leave may not be used for vacations or to extend vacations.
b) Leave at Substitute Cost
i) Any teacher shall be entitled to one (1) day of personal leave per year at substitute cost.
Teachers shall not be granted personal leave on any in-service, parent teacher, or administration days, nor shall personal leave be granted to extend Spring, Summer, Christmas break periods, or long weekends.
In no event will more than 10% of the teachers per school be granted personal leave on any one (1) day. Requests for personal leave shall be made to the principal with as much notice as possible and will be dealt with on an as received basis.
ii) The Board recognises that additional personal leave may be required in some circumstances. The Board may grant additional personal leave at substitute cost.
c) MTS Leave
i) Any teacher, being a member of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society’s Executive or of the Executive of any branch thereof, or of any special committee of the Society or any branch thereof, or being appointed an official representative or delegate of the Society or of any branch thereof and being authorized by the Executive of the Society to attend a meeting of the committee of which he or 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 for both purposes on not more than a total of five (5) teaching days in any school year, provided that the Society or any branch thereof assumes the cost of providing substitutes.
A maximum of fifty (50) days in total may be taken for the purposes mentioned above during any school year by members of the Association. No additional leave of absence beyond fifty (50) days in a school year shall be taken for the purposes mentioned above except with the consent and approval of the Board.
ii) Local Association President’s Secondment
(a) The Division shall provide the President of the Hanover Teachers’ Association leave to conduct Association business up to 100% of the teacher’s assignment as indicated by the Association.
(b) The Association agrees to reimburse the Division, the President’s salary and benefits, for the percentage of leave taken by the President of the Association.
(c) The Hanover Teachers’ Association will notify the Division by April 30th if they intend to exercise the leave of absence for the President for the following academic year. The schedule for the leave shall be developed by the Superintendent.
(d) Upon return from 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.
d) Leave With Pay
i) The Board may at its discretion grant leave to a teacher up to a maximum of four (4) days during any one (1) school year. Application for such leave to be made through the Superintendent to the Board. Such leave may not be used for vacations or to extend vacations.
ii) Teachers shall be granted, upon request, personal leave with pay of up to two days per school year.
Teachers shall not be granted personal leave on any in-service, parent teacher, or administration days, nor shall personal leave be granted to extend Spring, Summer, Christmas break periods.
In no event will more than 10% of the teachers per school (but not less than 2 teachers per school) be granted personal leave on any one day. Notwithstanding the above, for the day preceding a long weekend and the day immediately following a long weekend, no more than 5% of the teachers per school will be granted personal leave, and no teacher will be granted more than one personal leave day per long weekend.
Requests for personal leave shall be made to the principal with as much notice as possible and will be dealt with on an as received basis. In the case of an emergency the teacher shall contact their principal no later than 8:00 a.m. for the day the leave is being requested.
A maximum of three (3) personal leave days may be accumulated from year to year.
e) One Year Leave of Absence
A teacher may apply for a one year leave of absence at no loss of tenure rights provided that:
i) Application is made not later than April 30th in the year leave is requested.
ii) A teacher on such leave shall notify the Board of his/her intention to return or not to return on staff not later than March 31st of the year which the leave expires.
iii) The teacher on leave shall not lose any days of accumulated sick leave.
iv) The Board shall respond to the teacher's request within thirty (30) days from the date on which an application is received.
v) The Board shall consider each application for leave on its own merits and the Board's decision shall be final.