a) Effective September 2015, substitute teachers will be paid at the rate of $135.00 per day for certified personnel and $98.00 per day for personnel on Limited Teacher Certificates.
Effective the fall term 2016, substitute teachers will be paid at the rate of $138.00 per day for certified personnel and $100.00 per day for personnel on Limited Teacher Certificates.
Effective the fall term 2017, substitute teachers will be paid at the rate of $143.00 per day for certified personnel and $104.00 per day for personnel on Limited Teacher Certificates.
b) When a substitute teacher remains in the same teaching position for more than three days, beginning on the fourth day, he/she shall be paid according to the basic schedule. The above rates include vacation pay credits that should become effective the date on which the agreement is signed.
c) The Manitoba Teachers' Society fees and Turtle River 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) In-service days or Administrative days, shall not constitute a break in substitute teaching. In addition, where during a teaching assignment of longer than four (4) consecutive days in the same position, 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 assignment immediately thereafter such unavailability, such days of unavailability as noted above shall not constitute a break in substitute teaching.
Note: Definition of family for the above clause to be applied consistent with the current collective agreement in place for Teacher General and Limited Term Teacher General Contracts.
e) A substitute teacher who is called to work for an assignment for one half (1/2) days 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% 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.
f) 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.
g) A substitute teacher who is called to work and reports for the assignment finding that his or her services are not required shall be offered an alternative assignment of not less than a half (1/2) day.
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) The timetable for a substitute teacher in any assignment shall normally be the same as the timetable of the teacher who is being replaced.
j) A substitute teacher who has been employed for at least nine (9) consecutive days of 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 substitute teacher assignment to another.
The use of a sick leave day with pay shall not constitute an interruption of the substitute teaching assignment.
k) The following articles of the current collective agreement shall apply to substitute teachers:
Article 1: Purpose
Article 2: Effective Period
Article 3: Salary Schedule (3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.10, and 3.12)
Article 7: Complaints Against Teachers
Article 8: Settlement of Difference
Article 13: Access Agreement
Article 12: Involuntary Absence Due to Inclement Weather (Only for substitute teachers who have remained in the same teaching position for more than three days)
Article 14: Duty Free Lunch Period
Article 15: Freedom From Violence
l) The provisions of the Collective Agreement do not apply to substitute teachers except as expressly provided for in Article 3.10, Substitute Teachers.
m) The only matters which may be grieved under Article 8 (Settlement of Differences) 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.