ARTICLE 5: SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS

1. Certified substitute teachers shall be paid at a rate of $153.40 per day for any number of days up to five consecutive days of teaching for any one teacher effective the Fall Term 2018; at a rate of $158.83 per day for any number of days up to five consecutive days of teaching for any one teacher effective the date of signing of this Agreement;  for the 2021/2022 School year the rate will be effective on the date the parties confirm the amount of the adjustment (in January 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter).  Non-certified substitute teachers shall be paid at a rate of $114.94 per day effective the Fall Term 2018; at a rate of $119.00 per day effective the date of signing of this Agreement; for the 2021/2022 School year the rate will be effective on the date the parties confirm the amount of the adjustment (in January 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter).

 

2. Upon the commencement of the sixth (6^th) day of extended substitute teaching in the same assignment for consecutive days, 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 at the same qualifications and experience would be entitled to under the basic salary schedule as outlined in Article 3.01 of the Current Collective Agreement, where x = the number of days in the current school year.  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 instance of extended teaching assignment.  Sick leave days, in-service days and/or administration days shall not constitute a break in the extended substitute teaching.

 

3. 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 extended substitute teaching assignment to another.

 

4. 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 as the teacher who is being replaced.

 

5. 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.

 

6. 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 one half (1/2) day’s pay at the applicable rate in lieu.

 

7. A substitute teacher who has been employed for at least twenty (20) days extended substitute teaching shall, on the twenty-first (21^st) 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.

 

8. Pay relating to the salary earned by substitute teachers during any month shall be forwarded to those teachers via electronic funds transfer on the last Friday of each month, except March, June and December, when the payment will be made on the last teaching day of the month.  The cut-off day for payroll in any given month is the fifteenth (15^th) of that month.

 

9. The following clauses of the collective agreement apply to substitute teachers:

Article 1                       Purpose

Article 2                       Effective Period

Article 3.01                  Salaries – as it relates to conversion to per diem in accordance with Article 4 (b)

Article 22                     Settlement of Differences

The only matters which may be grieved under Article 22 (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.

Article 24                     Duty Free Lunch

Article 26                     Freedom from Violence