PRAIRIE SPIRIT TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

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

Article 3 Salaries

3:01 Educational Qualifications

For the purpose of this agreement, the members of the teaching staff shall be classified according to the classification set forth in Manitoba Regulation 515/88R or any amendments or substitutions thereof of the Public Schools Act except as otherwise provided in this agreement.

3:02 Change in Qualifications

The onus is on the teacher to give notice to the Division as soon as possible after credit has been obtained.  A teacher completing the requirements for a higher classification shall be paid in accordance with the higher classification effective the first day of the month following which notice of change in classification is recognized by the Professional Certification and Student Records Unit of Manitoba Education.  If the requirements are met in July or August, payment at the higher classification will commence September 1st.

3:03 Basic Salary

 
July 1st, 2014 to June 30th, 2015 ($2466 benefit premium)
  Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6 Class 7
Year 0 34,666 38,492 43,013 50,928 54,113 56,500 60,163
Year 1 36,417 40,817 45,844 53,942 57,284 59,839 63,503
Year 2 38,171 43,138 48,674 56,959 60,446 63,173 66,837
Year 3 39,927 45,462 51,505 59,977 63,612 66,514 70,175
Year 4 41,681 47,782 54,332 62,998 66,777 69,848 73,512
Year 5 43,434 50,108 57,162 66,013 69,943 73,184 76,851
Year 6 45,753 52,998 60,561 69,028 73,108 76,521 80,187
Year 7       72,044 76,275 79,858 83,521
Year 8       75,061 79,437 83,196 86,859
Year 9       78,644 83,167 87,097 90,762

 
July 1st, 2015 to June 30th, 2016 ($2514 benefit premium)
  Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6 Class 7
Year 0 35,361 39,263 43,875 51,948 55,197 57,631 61,368
Year 1 37,147 41,635 46,762 55,022 58,431 61,037 64,774
Year 2 38,936 44,002 49,649 58,100 61,656 64,438 68,175
Year 3 40,727 46,373 52,536 61,178 64,886 67,846 71,580
Year 4 42,516 48,739 55,420 64,259 68,114 71,246 74,984
Year 5 44,304 51,111 58,307 67,335 71,343 74,649 78,389
Year 6 46,669 54,059 61,774 70,410 74,571 78,053 81,792
Year 7       73,486 77,802 81,456 85,193
Year 8       76,564 81,027 84,861 88,598
Year 9       80,218 84,832 88,840 92,579

July 1st, 2016 to June 30th, 2017        - (benefit premium unknown)
July 1st, 2017 to December 31st, 2017 - (benefit premium unknown)
January 1st, 2018 to June 30th, 2018   - (benefit premium unknown)
                                     refer to Schedule “A” Auxiliary Agreement

3:04 Allowances for Experience

Teachers on staff shall receive increments according to Article 3:03 until maximum is reached.  Teachers in all classes holding a valid teaching certificate shall proceed from their initial placement on the basic schedule by annual proportional increments effective September 1st based on the experience earned and qualifications as recognized by the Professional Certification and Student Records Unit of Manitoba Education.

3:05 Use of Form 2, Teacher General & Limited Term Teacher General Contracts

1) All permanent teachers shall be employed on a Form 2 or Teacher General Contract.

2) Limited Term Teacher General Contracts shall be used when hiring teachers to replace teachers who are on leave. 

3) Teachers on leave shall advise their intentions (for the next year) no later than March 15th, of the year of leave.  Those teachers on leave that have not indicated their intention by March 15th may be assigned to a different position within the school division.

    For the purpose of this clause teachers on leave refers to those full time teachers who are on a leave of absence for a full year.

4) A teacher employed by the division on a Limited Term Teacher General Contract shall be granted sick leave entitlement as outlined under 5:01 of the collective agreement.

5) If the teacher has taught for two full consecutive years for the division under this form of agreement (Limited Term Teacher General Contract), and accepts employment as a teacher for the division for a third full consecutive year,
    a) in that third year, the teacher will be employed under a Teacher General Contract agreement; and
    b) those two full years of service under this form of agreement (Limited Term Teacher General Contract) will be deemed, for the purposes of accumulating unused sick leave and determining length of service as a teacher, to have been completed under that Teacher General Contract agreement.

3:06 Provisions for Part Time Teachers

1) Teachers employed on a part time basis shall:
    a) be paid according to their qualifications as established in 3:01.
    b) be paid on a rate based on the fraction of the time employed.
    c) the service of a part time teacher shall be accumulated in the proportion of actual percentage of time employed in each school year.  A part time teacher who will remain in the same incremental step for more than one school year shall receive an increment effective the following September in said increment step.  That increment shall be paid in the amount of the proportion of experience earned of time worked multiplied by the appropriate increment.  Upon receipt of this increment no additional increment shall be paid until the teacher moves to the next incremental step. 
    d) be deducted fees in the manner prescribed by the Manitoba Teachers’ Society, the Prairie Spirit Teachers’ Association and Council of School Leaders.

2) Part time teachers’ contracts shall, within reason, reflect the actual time taught.

3) Part time teachers shall receive preparation time and shall be assigned supervision duties (as appropriate to the school in which they teach) on a pro rata basis.

4) Part time teachers’ timetables shall be blocked whenever possible.  If not possible, split-shifts shall be arranged at the least inconvenience possible for the teacher involved.

5) a) Part time teachers, in consultation with the school principal, will identify, at the commencement of the school year, the required professional development, administration and parent teacher days that will be worked on a pro rata basis.
    b) When part time teachers are requested by administration to participate in professional  development, administration, or parent teacher day activities requiring time over and above  their percentage contract time, they shall, at their request, receive 1/200th or portion thereof  for the time spent over and above their regularly scheduled working time during the school  day.  Time in lieu of monetary compensation may be given if mutually agreed upon between  the teacher and employer.
    c) If mutually agreeable between a part time teacher and administration to attend divisional  committee meetings or in-services during the part of the school day that the part time teacher does not normally teach, the part time teacher shall be given time in lieu of monetary compensation.

6) When a staff meeting is called at a time when a part time teacher is not on duty, that teacher shall not be required to attend the staff meeting.  It is the teacher’s responsibility to be apprised of the staff meeting agenda and the decisions made.

7) Part time teachers shall be guaranteed the right to return to the first available full-time position, within their qualifications and experience, where part time work was undertaken at the initiative of the employer.

3:07 Principal Allowances

1) The allowance for principals will be calculated using the following formula:
     (Number of Students x Student Rate) + (Number of FTE teachers x Teacher Rate)

2) For the purpose of calculating the allowance, the number of students will include the follow:
    a) Kindergarten students (counted as half) plus Grades 1 to 12 students
    b) International students
    c) Supportable adult students
    d) First Nations students

3) For the purpose of calculating the allowance, the number of FTE teachers will be determined by the divisional staffing formula for classroom, resource, school counsellor, divisional e-learning, Reading Recovery, IITV and Career Technology Study teachers.

4) The allowance will be calculated based on FTE teachers and student enrolments as at the preceding September 30th and will be adjusted at October 1st for the current year.  Any retroactive adjustment, under or over, will be applied to the October pay.

5) The Student Rate and Teacher Rate shall be as follows:

Sept. 1st 2014 Sept. 1st, 2015 Sept. 1st, 2016 Sept. 1st, 2017 Jan. 1st, 2018
Student Rate Teacher Rate Student Rate Teacher Student Rate Teacher Rate Student Rate Teacher Rate Student Rate Teacher Rate
Rate
$25.14 $604.28 $25.64 $616.37 $26.15 $628.70 $26.54 $638.13 $26.94 $647.70

 

6) The minimum allowance for principals shall be:
    September, 2014  - $4,174.94
    September, 2015 - $4,258.44
    September, 2016 - $4,343.61
    September, 2017 - $4,408.76
    January, 2018  - $4,474.89

7) a)  Every year the current year’s allowance as determined by the formula will be compared with the September 2010 principal’s allowance adjusted by the cost of living increase(s). 
    b) A principal’s allowance shall not be reduced below the September 2010 allowance (adjusted by the cost of living increases) for the remaining tenure of that principal in the same school, but shall increase if the formula applied as above results in a higher allowance.

8) a)  Any person applying for and accepting a principalship after September 2010 shall receive an initial principal allowance as calculated in 1).
    b)  A principal’s allowance shall not be reduced below the initial principal allowance as per 8 a) (adjusted by the cost of living increases) for the remaining tenure of that principal in the same school, but shall increase if the formula applied as above results in a higher allowance.

9) A principal’s allowance shall not be reduced for reasons of transfer from one school to a principal position in another school provided that such transfer is at the request of the Board but shall increase if the formula applied as above results in a higher allowance.

10) A principal’s allowance shall not be reduced in the event of school reconfiguration but shall increase if the formula applied as above results in a higher allowance. 

11) Vice principals shall receive an allowance equal to one half of the principal’s allowance for that school.

12) In schools where no vice principal is appointed, one teacher shall be designated as acting principal and shall receive an allowance of $18.29 (September, 2014); $18.66 (September, 2015); $19.03 (September, 2016); $19.32 (September, 2017); $19.61 (January, 2018) per half day that the principal is absent.

13) Where a qualified teacher assumes the administrative workload of a principal for six consecutive days or more, the teacher shall be paid at the rate 1/200th of the principal allowance for that principal effective the first day.

14) The minimum amount of administrative time allotted to each school shall be defined by divisional formula.  Distribution of each school’s administrative time shall be the responsibility of the principal in consultation with the superintendent.

15) Administrative release time for vice principal and others appointed to administrative duties shall be defined in consultation with the principals and superintendent and shall be dependent on the administrative load carried by that person.

3:08 Divisional Administrator Allowance

1) Any teacher appointed by the Board to coordinate educational programs and to work with staff and others associated with those programs shall be designated as a divisional administrator.  Teachers appointed on less than a full time basis shall be paid an allowance prorata based on the full time allowance.

2) Each full time divisional administrator will receive an allowance in addition to their salary as a teacher as follows:

Year Sept. 1st, 2014 Sept. 1st, 2015 Sept. 1st, 2016 Sept. 1st, 2017 Jan. 1st 2018
1 5,455 5,564 5,675 5,760 5,846
2 6,426 6,555 6,686 6,786 6,888
3 7,637 7,790 7,946 8,065 8,186

3) If in the event that a Principal at a PSSD school is hired as a divisional administrator, they will be paid the higher allowance between their current rate and the first year rate on the divisional administrator grid.  After the first year, the divisional administrator will be placed on the divisional administrator grid starting at the second year rate.

3:09 Payment of Salary

1) Salaries shall be paid on or before the last teaching Friday of each month on a twelve month basis.  In the case of June, July and August, they shall be paid on the last teaching day of June.

2) In the event that a part time teacher’s assignment varies from fall term to spring term or semester one to semester two then the part time teacher will be paid on a ten (10) month basis according to assigned teaching time per term or semester.

3) Limited Term teachers not employed for a full year will be paid on a ten (10) month basis on or before the last teaching Friday of each month.

3:10 Payment of MTS Fees

1) Fees due to the Manitoba Teachers’ Society
    a) The Manitoba Teachers’ Society membership fees shall be deducted from the wages of every teacher employed under a Form 2, Teacher General or Limited Term Teacher General Contracts, whether or not the employee is a member of the Society.
    b) The amount deducted shall be the regular membership dues payable by a member of the Society, except that, where the employee is not a member of the Society, the amount deducted shall not include any portion of such dues that is payable in respect of pension, superannuation, sickness, insurance, or other benefits that are available only to persons who are or have been members of the Society or in respect of especial assessments payable by members of the Society.  It is the responsibility of the teacher concerned to inform the School Division of the specific portion of the fee in question and to provide the Division with appropriate documentation to confirm the amount to be withheld.
    c) Said fees shall be deducted on a twelve month basis and shall be forwarded monthly to the Central Office of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society.

2)   Fees due to the Prairie Spirit Teachers’ Association
    a) The Treasurer of the Teachers’ Association shall advise the Secretary Treasurer of the School Division, in writing, prior to November 1st, the amount of the Annual Fee to be deducted.
    b) The annual fee for membership in the Prairie Spirit Teachers’ Association of The Manitoba Teachers’ Society shall be deducted at source in November from the wages of every teacher employed under a Form 2, Teacher General or Limited Term Teacher General Contracts, whether or not the employee is a member of the Association.
    c) Said fees shall be remitted to the Treasurer of the Teachers’ Association by December 15th.

3)   Fees due to the Council of School Leaders
    a) The annual fee for membership in the Council of School Leaders of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society shall be deducted from the wages of every teacher in an administrative position, employed under a Form 2, Teacher General or Limited Term Teacher General Contracts, whether or not the employee is a member of the Council.
    b) Said fees shall be deducted and shall be forwarded to the Central Office of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society.

4) The Secretary Treasurer of the Division shall advise the Treasurer of the Teachers’ Association on October 1st, and February 1st of the names of the employees from whose wages deductions have been made under 1), 2) and 3), indicating also the amounts so deducted from each employee’s wages.

3:11 Substitute Teachers

1) All substitute teachers employed by the Division shall be paid at the rate of $145.00 per day inclusive of vacation pay effective September, 2015.

2) On September 1st, 2016 all substitute teachers employed by the Division shall be paid at the rate of $150.00 per day inclusive of vacation pay.

3) On September 1st, 2017 all substitute teachers employed by the Division shall be paid at the rate of $155.00 per day inclusive of vacation pay.

4) The above change in rates shall become effective the date of signing of the new agreement.

5) A substitute teacher who has been employed for at least twenty consecutive days of substitute teaching for the same teacher or principal shall, on the twenty-first day, be signed to a Limited Term Teacher-General Contract.

6) Where a qualified substitute teacher assumes the workload of the same teacher and/or principal for six consecutive days or more, the substitute shall:
    a) be paid at the rate of 1/200th his/her classification according to his/her qualifications and experience as stipulated in Articles 3:03 and 3:05 
        effective the first day.
    b) follow the timetable of the teacher being replaced.

7) Manitoba Teachers’ Society fees and Prairie Spirit Teachers’ association fees shall be deducted from a substitute teacher’s pay monthly, as provided by Manitoba Teachers’ Society and Prairie Spirit Teachers’ Association.

8) Substitute teachers shall earn sick leave on the basis of one day paid sick leave for every nine (9) consecutive days taught. The entitlement to sick leave will not be accumulative from one assignment to another.

9) A substitute teacher who reports and finds that his/her services are not required shall be paid a half day’s pay for reporting for duty.

10) The following articles apply to substitute teachers:
      a) Article 1 Purpose
      b) Article 2 Effective Period
      c) Article 3 Salaries
          - Clause 3:01 Educational Qualifications
          - Clause 3:02 Change in Qualifications
          - Clause 3:03 Basic Salary
          - Clause 3:04 Salary Reduction
          - Clause 3:13 Rotating Teachers’ Mileage Allowance    
      d) Article 9 Provision for Consultation
      e) Article 10 Written Warnings and Suspension
      f)  Article 11 Provision for Settlement of Dispute
      g) Article 12 Working Conditions
          - Clause 12:02 Duty Free Lunch
          - Clause 12:03 Freedom from Violence

3:12 Rotating Teachers’ Mileage Allowance

A mileage allowance (at the divisional rate) shall be paid to any teacher whose assignment (as determined by the Superintendent) requires travel from one site to another during the school day.