a. Effective the date of signing, the rates of pay for a substitute teacher shall be:
Paid at a rate of $144.00 per day, for Class 1 to 7, and $107.00 per day if not in Class 1 to 7.
Effective the first day of fall term 2016, the rates of pay for a substitute teacher shall be:
Paid at a rate of $147.00 per day, for Class 1 to 7, and $109.00 per day if not in Class 1 to 7.
Effective the first day of fall term 2017, the rates of pay for a substitute teacher shall be:
Paid at a rate of $149.00 per day, for Class 1 to 7, and $111.00 per day if not in Class 1 to 7.
Effective January 2018, the rates of pay for a substitute teacher shall be:
Paid at a rate of $151.00 per day, for Class 1 to 7, and $113.00 per day if not in Class 1 to 7.
This agreement includes holiday pay.
b. A substitute teacher who assumes the teaching workload of the same teacher for six (6) consecutive school days or more, shall be paid at the rate of 1/x (where x = the number of days in the current school year as determined by the Minister responsible for education), of his/her classification according to his/her qualifications and experience, effective on the seventh (7th) consecutive school day as outlined in Article 5.01. Substitution days cannot be accumulated from one assignment to another.
c. In addition, where during an extended substitute teaching assignment the substitute teacher becomes unavailable to work due to attending to 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 teaching assignment immediately thereafter such unavailability, such days of unavailability as noted above shall not constitute a break in extended substitute teaching.
d. 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.
The use of a sick leave day with pay shall not constitute an interruption of the extended substitute teaching assignment.
A substitute teacher claiming sick leave may be required to provide proof of illness from a registered medical practitioner (at Division cost) if requested to do so by the Superintendent or designate.
Assignment shall mean consecutive teaching days in one (1) position.
e. 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.
f. A substitute teacher who is called to work for an assignment for one half (½) 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. One half (½) day shall be defined as a morning or an afternoon.
g. 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 teacher’s original assignment and when such an alternative assignment is not available shall be paid half (1/2) day’s pay at the applicable rate in lieu.
h. 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.
i. Pay relating to the salary earned by substitute teachers during any month shall be forwarded to those teachers not later than the fifteenth (15th) day of the following calendar month.
j. All substitute teachers as members in good standing, shall be required to pay all provincial and local Manitoba Teachers’ Society fees, such fees to be deducted by the Division monthly and pro-rated on the basis of the number of days worked in that month.
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 legal action arising from the deduction of The Manitoba Teachers’ Society fees.
k. The following articles of the Collective Agreement shall apply to substitute teachers with amendments as noted:
Article 1 Purpose
Article 2 Recognition of Management
Article 3 Effective Period
Article 4 Educational Qualifications (as it relates to Article 5.04b)
Article 5.01 Basic Schedule (as it relates to Article 5.04 Substitutes)
Article 5.04 Substitute Teachers
Article 5.07 Placement (as it relates to Article 5.04b)
Article 5.12 Meal Period
Article 12 Freedom from Violence
Article 16 Settlement of Differences (except that the only matters that may be grieved under the
Settlement of Differences article by a substitute teacher or the Association on behalf of a
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.)
l. Except for as provided for in Article 5.04, substitute teachers are not covered by the collective agreement.