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 of which he/she is a member of to act as a representative or delegate of the Society in a matter of Society business requiring absence from the school, shall have the right to attend such meeting 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 seven (7) teaching days in any school year, provided that a substitute is assumed by the Society and shall not be a charge upon the Division concerned except that the President of the local M.T.S. branch may be granted up to an additional five (5) days of such leave. Any additional leave shall require the consent and approval of the Board.
RE: Association Release Time
The Association shall, upon giving notice on or before April 30th, be entitled up to the equivalent of one half time (1/2) release position as determined by the Association to attend to Association business for the following school year.
There shall be no loss of benefits and the Association shall reimburse the Division for each release time member’s salary, allowance where applicable, benefits and other costs related to each release time member’s secondment.
On or before April 30th in the year of the secondment each release time member shall advise the C.E.O./Superintendent of Schools in writing of the member’s intention to return at the commencement of the next school year.
A member employed by the Division who is elected to a release time position shall at the termination of the member’s secondment return to the same position the member held prior to the leave or to a comparable position.