a) Scope and Recognition
The employer, being the Pine Creek School Division, recognizes the Pine Creek Teachers’ Association of The Manitoba Teachers’ Society, as the exclusive bargaining agent for all substitute teachers employed by the Division.
b) Salaries
Substitute teachers shall be paid at the following rates (inclusive of vacation pay):
| Class 1-3 | Class 4+ | ||
| Effective Fall Term14/15: | $117 | $143 | |
| Effective Fall Term15/16: | $119 | $146 | |
| Effective Fall Term 16/17: | $121 | $149 | |
| Effective Fall Term 17/18: | $123 | $151 | |
| Effective Jan 1, 2018: | $125 | $153 | |
per day for the first five consecutive days of substitute teaching in one particular assignment.
A period of substitute teaching in one particular assignment of at least five (5) days shall be termed extended substitute teaching.
Upon commencement of the sixth (6th) day of extended substitute teaching, a substitute teacher shall be paid for each day taught at the per diem rate to be calculated as 1/x of the salary to which a Full time or Part time teacher of the same qualifications and experience would be entitled under the basic salary schedule as outlined in Article 4.01 – Salaries. This rate of pay shall be retroactive to the first day of the extended teaching assignment and shall continue in effect until the end of that extended teaching assignment.
In-service days or Administrative days, shall not constitute a break in extended substitute teaching.
In addition, where during an extended substitute teaching assignment, the substitute teacher becomes unavailable to work due to attending what would be described as a family related emergency or for the death or serious illness of the substitute teacher’s family or for attending to Association or MTS business as a representative of the Association, and where the substitute teacher returns to the extended teacher assignment immediately thereafter such unavailability, such days of unavailability as noted above shall not constitute a break in extended substitute teaching.
Note: Definition of family for the above clause to be applied consistent with the current collective agreement in place for Teacher General, Limited Term Teacher General Contract.
A substitute teacher who is called to work for an assignment for one half (1/2) day or less shall be paid one half (1/2) of the daily rate. A substitute teacher, who is called to work for an assignment of greater than a half day but less than a full day, shall be paid the daily rate. Notwithstanding the above, where the substitute is replacing a teacher whose contractual assignment is more than 50% but less than full time, the substitute shall be paid for a period equivalent in time to the assignment of the teacher being replaced.
Further, a substitute teacher who is replacing a teacher who is serving as Acting Principal shall be paid for a period equivalent in time to the Acting Principal assignment.
c) Deduction of Manitoba Teachers’ Society Fees
Manitoba Teachers’ Society fees and Pine Creek Teachers’ Association fees shall be deducted from a substitute teacher’s pay monthly. These fees shall be pro-rated on the basis of the number of days worked in a given month.
The Association shall provide the Division with at least two (2) weeks advance notice of any change in Association fees.
The Association shall indemnify and save harmless the Division from any and all losses, costs, liabilities or expenses suffered or sustained by the Division as a result of any claim or legal action arising from the deduction of local Association fees or Manitoba Teachers’ Society fees.
d) Payment of Salary
Pay relating to the salary earned by the substitute teachers during any month shall be forwarded to those teachers not later than the fifteenth (15th) day of the following calendar month.
e) Substitute Teachers’ Services Not Required
A substitute teacher who is called to work for an assignment, and who reports for the assignment finding that his or her services are not required shall be offered an alternative assignment equivalent in time to the substitute’s original assignment, and when such alternative assignment is not available shall be paid half (1/2) day’s pay at the applicable rate in lieu.
f) Limited Term Teacher General Contract
A substitute teacher who has been employed for at least twenty (20) days of extended substitute teaching shall, on the twenty-first (21st) day, be signed to a Limited Term Teacher General Contract, unless the return of the regular teacher or conclusion of the substitute assignment is immediately imminent.
g) Assignment
Unless otherwise determined at the time of the assignment, or except in unforeseen circumstances, the timetable for a substitute teacher in any assignment shall normally be the same as the timetable of the teacher who is being replaced.
h) In-School Support
A substitute resource binder shall exist for each school and for each classroom.
i) Sick Leave
A substitute teacher who has been employed for at least nine (9) consecutive days of extended substitute teaching in a school year shall be entitled to one (1) day of sick leave with pay for each nine (9) days taught in that assignment. Sick leave shall not accumulate from one extended substitute teaching assignment to another.
The use of sick leave day with pay shall not constitute an interruption of the extended substitute teaching assignment.
j) The following articles of the Collective Agreement apply to substitute teachers:
Article 1 – Purpose
Article 2 – Effective Period
Article 3 – Classification
Article 4 – Salaries, (4.01, 4.02, 4.04, 4.07 and 4.10)
Article 8 – Harassment
Article 9 – Freedom From Violence
Article 12 – Meal Period (when a substitute teacher is offered and has accepted an assignment for greater than one-half day)
k) The only matters which may be grieved under Article 13 – Provision for Settlement of Disputes During Currency of Agreement, by a substitute teacher of the Association on behalf of substitute teacher are the provisions of this Article, and the substantive rights and obligations of employment-related and human rights statutes, to the extent that they are incorporated into this collective agreement.