FORT LA BOSSE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

EFFECTIVE PERIOD: 2018/07/01 - 2022/06/30

ARTICLE 15: LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR M.T.S. DUTIES

  1. M.T.S. Duties

A teacher being a member of The Manitoba Teachers' Society Executive or of any branch thereof, or any special committee of the Society or any branch thereof, and being authorized by the Executive committee of the Society to attend a meeting of the Society in a matter of the Society business requiring absence from school, shall have the right to attend such meeting or to act as a representative or delegate and shall be excused from school duties for either purposes or both purposes on not more than a total of five (5) teaching days in any school year. Additional days may be granted at the discretion of the Division.

  1. Association President's Duties
  1. A teacher who is President of the Association shall be granted release time from regular teaching duties to attend to the duties of the Association.
  1. This release time shall be an amount of time up to but not more than twenty-five (25) days in any one academic year.  Additional days may be granted at the discretion of the Division.
  1. The amount and scheduling of this time shall be mutually agreed to by the Division and administration, and the Executive of the Association.
  1. The Association shall reimburse the Division for costs incurred as a result of this release time.
  1. The teacher taking this release time shall suffer no loss of benefits as a result.
  1. The Association shall give the Division the maximum practicable length of notice prior to the President's taking that release time, failing which the Division may be justified in denying the leave.
  1. General

All leaves of absence under (A) or (B) above are conditional upon the availability of an acceptable substitute, except in cases of genuine emergency. The cost of the substitute teacher shall be borne by the Association.