SWAN VALLEY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

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

ARTICLE 3: SALARIES

3.01

For the purposes of this salary schedule, the teachers are classified according to their qualifications as recognized by Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth.

3.02

A basic salary, as per the accompanying schedule, shall be paid each teacher with a valid classification as in Section 3.01 above.

3.03 Salary Schedule

Salary/Allowances and other monetary items:

Effective first day of Fall Term 2014 Family Premium $2,340 

 

Yrs. Exp. Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6 Class 7

0

32,968

36,698

42,132

50,307

53,602

56,313

59,467

1

34,687

38,683

44,080

52,873

56,313

59,036

62,490

2

37,582

40,657

46,034

55,431

59,036

61,798

65,504

3

38,557

42,591

47,986

58,298

61,907

64,900

68,538

4

40,227

44,516

49,949

61,165

64,773

68,007

71,548

5

41,883

46,439

51,904

64,037

67,681

71,114

74,582

6

42,968

48,368

53,860

67,095

70,743

74,219

77,600

7

43,580

50,307

55,817

70,161

73,810

77,323

80,619

8

 

50,916

57,770

73,213

76,876

80,428

83,633

9

 

 

58,943

76,275

79,943

83,534

86,658

10

 

 

 

77,524

82,443

86,638

90,894

Effective first day of Fall Term 2015 Family Premium $2,382 

Yrs. Exp. Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6 Class 7

0

33,632

37,437

42,979

51,318

54,679

57,444

60,661

1

35,386

39,461

44,966

53,935

57,444

60,222

63,745

2

38,338

41,475

46,959

56,544

60,222

63,039

66,819

3

39,333

43,448

48,951

59,469

63,150

66,203

69,914

4

41,036

45,411

50,953

62,393

66,073

69,372

72,984

5

42,725

47,373

52,947

65,323

69,039

72,541

76,078

6

43,832

49,340

54,942

68,442

72,163

75,708

79,157

7

44,456

51,318

56,938

71,569

75,291

78,874

82,236

8

 

51,939

58,930

74,682

78,418

82,041

85,310

9

 

 

60,127

77,805

81,547

85,209

88,396

10

 

 

 

79,079

84,097

88,376

92,717

Effective first day of Fall Term 2016 Family Premium $2,460

Yrs. Exp.  Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6 Class 7

0

34,274

38,155

43,808

52,314

55,742

58,563

61,844

1

36,063

40,220

45,835

54,983

58,563

61,906

64,990

2

39,074

42,274

47,868

58,155

61,906

64,779

68,125

3

40,089

44,287

49,900

61,138

64,893

68,007

71,282

4

41,826

46,289

51,942

64,121

67,874

71,239

74,413

5

43,549

48,290

53,976

67,109

70,899

74,471

77,569

6

44,678

50,296

56,010

70,290

74,086

77,702

80,710

7

45,315

52,314

58,046

73,480

77,276

80,931

83,850

8

 

52,947

60,078

76,655

80,466

84,161

86,986

9

 

 

61,299

79,841

83,658

87,393

90,134

10

 

 

 

81,140

86,259

90,623

95,051

 

Increment Restructuring

 Effective first day of the Fall Term 2017:  $100 to Class 4 – Steps 2 to 10
                                                                             Class 5 – Steps 2 to 10
                                                                             Class 6 – Steps 1 to 10
                                                                             Class 7 – Step 10

Effective first day of Fall Term 2017:  Salary Schedule to be adjusted by 1.5% after the aforementioned increment restructuring and adjustments as provided by the Collateral Dental Plan Agreement.

Effective first day of January 2017:  Salary Schedule to be adjusted by 1.5% and adjustments as provided by the Collateral Dental Plan Agreement.

3.04 Annual Increments

Annual increments shall be paid as per table 3.03 as of September 01.

Effective Date of Signing:

(a) Full-time teachers entering the service of the School Division in the Fall  Term of any year shall receive an adjustment to the next higher rate in their Class on the Salary Schedule at the beginning of the Fall Term next following.

(b) Full-time teachers entering the service of the School Division in the Spring Term of any year shall receive an adjustment to the next higher rate in their Class on the Salary Schedule at the beginning of the Spring Term next following.

(c) Part-time teachers shall receive an adjustment to the next higher rate in  their Class based on the fraction of the time employed at the beginning of the Fall or Spring Term following the accumulation of service with the School Division equals the equivalent of one full-time year of  service as verified by The Manitoba Education Professional Certification Branch.

3.05 Credit for Past Experience

Full credit shall be allowed for past experience, as recognized by Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth.

3.06 A. Principal's Administrative Allowance

Effective first day of Fall Term 2014, all principals shall be paid at the rate of $816.00, per teacher(s) supervised, excluding himself/herself.  In no case will the allowance be less than $6,630.00.  In no case will the allowance be more than $24,582.00. 

Effective first day of Fall Term 2015, all principals shall be paid at the rate of $832.00, per teacher(s) supervised, excluding himself/herself.  In no case will the allowance be less than $6,763.00.  In no case will the allowance be more than $25,074.00. 

Effective first day of Fall Term 2016, all principals shall be paid at the rate of $870.00, per teacher(s) supervised, excluding himself/herself.  In no case will the allowance be less than $7,000.00.  In no case will the allowance be more than $25,951.00.

Effective first day of Fall Term 2017, all principals shall be paid at the rate of $908.00, per teacher(s) supervised, excluding himself/herself.  In no case will the allowance be less than $7,350.00.  In no case will the allowance be more than $26,725.00.

Effective first day of January 2018, all principals shall be paid at the rate of $946.00, per teacher(s) supervised, excluding himself/herself.  In no case will the allowance be less than $7,700.00.  In no case will the allowance be more than $27,500.00.

In addition to the above, principals who have obtained a Level 1 Manitoba School Administrator’s Certificate shall receive an allowance per annum of $250.00.  Those principals who have obtained a Level 11 Manitoba Principal’s Certificate shall receive an additional allowance per annum of $250.00.

Effective September 1, 2017, those principals who have obtained a Certificate in School Leadership shall receive an allowance per annum of  $500.00.

3.06 B. Vice-Principal's Administrative Allowance

A vice-principal shall receive an administrative allowance which is equal to one-half of that of the Principal.

In addition to the above, vice-principals who have obtained a Level I
Manitoba School Administrator’s Certificate shall receive an allowance per annum of $250.00.  Those vice-principals who have obtained a Level II
Manitoba Principal’s Certificate shall receive an additional allowance per
annum of $250.00.

 Effective September 1, 2017, those vice-principals who have obtained a Certificate in School Leadership shall receive an allowance per annum of $500.00.

3.06 C. Interim Vice-Principal

In schools where there is no permanent vice-principal appointment, an interim vice-principal shall be designated when the need arises.  The designee shall assume the duties of the vice-principal during the absence of the principal.  When such absence extends to one full day, the designee shall be paid a per diem allowance of one half of the principal’s administrative allowance of that school.

In the event of one half day absence, the designated teacher shall be paid a per diem allowance of one quarter of the principal’s administrative allowance of that school.

3.06 D. Supervisory Allowance

Coordinator of Student Services, shall be paid an administrative allowance, prorated to a full time position, according to the following schedule:

Years in

First Day

First Day

First Day

First Day

First Day

Designated

Fall Term

March

Fall Term

Fall Term

January

Position     

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

0

9,505

9,695

9,889

10,037

10,188

1

10,357

10,564

10,775

10,937

11,101

2

11,211

11,435

11,664

11,839

12,017

3.07 Change in Classification

Any teacher who improves his/her classification on the schedule shall be paid a salary as per the improved classification as follows:

(a) If Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth recognizes the change in classification by the fifteenth of the month, then the change in salary shall be made effective on the first day of that month.

(b) If Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth recognizes the change in classification after the fifteenth of the month, then the change in salary shall be made effective on the first day of the following month.

3.08 Qualifications

The onus of providing the Board with satisfactory proof of qualifications rests with the teacher concerned.

3.09 Salary Protection

No teacher, now on a negotiated contract, shall suffer a reduction in basic salary by reason of the adoption of this agreement, but shall remain at the same basic salary until this agreement is in accord therewith.

3.10 Irregular Qualifications

The salary of a teacher, whose qualifications and experience do not permit him/her to be paid according to the classification in this schedule, shall be paid by the Division subject to negotiation and agreement with the Swan Valley Teachers’ Association.

3.11 Payment of Salary

Total annual salary shall be paid in twelve (12) equal installments.  The installments will be paid on the last teaching day of each month from September to June and the last banking day during July and August.

The Division will move to a twenty-four (24) pay system no later than Fall 2017, current language to then be deleted and replaced with:

Payment of salary shall be on the basis of twenty-four (24) approximately equal payments from September to August, said payments to be made respectively on the last banking day on or before the 15th day of the month and the end of the month.  The payment shall be made by direct deposit.

Where a teacher leaves the employ of the Division during the course of the school year, the final salary payment shall be so adjusted that the teacher shall receive, for the part of the year taught, such fraction of the salary for the whole year as the number of days taught is of the number of school days in the current school year.

3.12 Per Diem

Wherever in this Agreement deduction of salary during a leave of absence or payment of salary is to be made at the per diem rate, the amount of the deduction or repayment shall be calculated in accordance with the appropriate formula set out below:
 
a)    Payment at Per Diem Rate
       Number of days for which payment is due    x   Teacher’s current
       Number of school days in the school year          annual salary
       as defined by the Minister of Education.

 b)    Deduction at Per Diem Rate
       Number of days of leave without pay            x   Teacher’s current
       Number of school days in the school year          annual salary
       as defined by the Minister of Education.

3.13 Substitute Teachers

 Effective September 01 or the date of signing this agreement, whichever is the latter, the following shall apply:

(a) Substitute teacher means a teacher employed on a day-to-day basis.

(b) The salary rate for substitute teachers will be in accordance with the following schedule:

   $133.75 per day
   $145.00 per day, effective date of signing
   $148.00 per day, effective first day of Fall Term 2016
   $150.50 per day, effective first day of Fall Term 2017
   $155.00 per day, effective first day of January 2018            

(c) A period of substitute teaching in one particular assignment of at least five (5) days shall be deemed extended substitute teaching.  A substitute teacher employed for a period in excess of five (5) consecutive teaching days in any extended teaching assignment, shall be paid on the sixth (6) day thereafter a per diem of his/her qualifications according to Table 3.03.

 In-service days and/or Administrative days, shall not constitute a break in the extended teaching assignment.

(d) 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 teaching assignment  immediately thereafter such unavailability, such days of unavailability as noted above shall not constitute a break in extended substitute teaching.

Definition of family for the above clause to be applied consistent with the current collective agreement.

(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 (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 teacher is replacing a teacher whose contractual assignment is more than 50% time but less than full time, the substitute shall be paid for a period equivalent in time to the assignment of the teacher being replaced.

(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’s original assignment and when such an alternative assignment is not available shall be paid a half (1/2) day’s pay at the applicable rate in lieu.

 (h) 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.

(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 teacher assignment to another.   

The use of a sick leave day with pay shall not constitute an interruption of the extended substitute teaching assignment.

(j) Pay relating to the salary earned by substitute teachers during any month shall be received by those teachers via direct deposit not later than the fifteenth (15th) day of the following calendar month.

(k) Manitoba Teachers’ Society fees shall be deducted from a substitute teacher’s monthly pay.

(l) The following clauses of the Collective Agreement apply to substitute teachers:
     Article 1 – Purpose
     Article 2 – Effective Period
     Article 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.05, 3.07, 3.08, 3.09, 3.10, 3.13 (as it relates  to the conversion to per diem in accordance with 3.13 c)
     Article 14 – Noon Hour
     Article 18 – Complaints Against Teachers
     Article 19 – Settlement of Dispute
         - the only matters which may be grieved under Article 19 (Settlement of Dispute) 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.
    Article 22 – Interest on Retroactive Pay
    Article 23 – Freedom From Violence
    Article 24 – Signing Page