KELSEY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

EFFECTIVE PERIOD: 2014/07/01 - 2018/06/30 (EXPIRED)

ARTICLE 14 - DISCIPLINE

(a) The Board or its designates shall have the right to suspend a teacher with or without pay subject to this Article. For the purposes of this Article, the following definition of discipline shall apply:

The imposition by the School Board or any agent thereof of a penalty of any kind on a teacher, including but not restricted to reprimands and/or suspensions but excluding termination of employment.

(b) No teacher shall be disciplined without just and reasonable cause.

(c) Where this School Board, or a person or persons acting on behalf of the School Board, disciplines any person covered by this Collective Agreement and where the affected person is not satisfied that the discipline is for just and reasonable cause, the Board's action shall be deemed to be a difference between the parties to or persons bound by this Collective Agreement under Article 14.

(d) When such a difference is referred to a Board of Arbitration under Article 14, the Board of Arbitration shall have the power to:

(i) uphold the discipline;

(ii) rescind the discipline;

(iii) vary or modify the discipline;

(iv) order the Board to pay all or part of any loss of pay and/or benefits in respect of the discipline;

(v) do one or more of the things set out in sub-clauses (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) above.