LOUIS RIEL TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

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

ARTICLE 17.00 - USE OF TERM CONTRACTS

A. Except as hereinafter provided, every teacher employed by the Division shall be employed under a written form of contract known as Form 2 and/or Teacher General of the Public Schools Act.

B. The exception to (A) above shall be those term teachers employed for a term certain of one (1) school year or less.  Every such term teacher shall be employed by the Division under a form of contract approved by the Minister known as a Limited Term Teacher- General.

C.  A teacher who has been employed full or part-time in the Division under a Limited Term Teacher-General Contract for an entire school year and is employed the following school year under a Teacher-General Contract shall be entitled retroactively to seniority and sick leave.

D. A teacher who has been employed full- or part-time in the Division under a Limited Term Teacher-General contract for two (2) successive entire school years shall, upon employment for the third consecutive entire school year, be signed to a Teacher General contract and shall be entitled retroactively to seniority and sick leave.  An “entire school year” means employment for 180 or more school days in the contract year.