PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION -- Memorandum of Agreement

Effective January 1, 2021, Administrative Allowances will be calculated taking into account the student weighted enrolment numbers for September of 2017 (including the weighted Level 2 and Level 3 student count in effect at the time).

If an administrator’s school enrollment numbers experienced an increase in general student population enrollment after January 1, 2021, (as per the Divisional timelines for implementation of Article 7 of the Collective Agreement), the Division will apply the increase to the administrator’s Administrative Allowance, as set out in paragraph 3 hereof.

For greater certainty, the process the Division would implement for the calculation of Administrative Allowances for the 2021 and 2022 calendar years would be as follows:

1. Calculate the enrollment numbers for the 2021 and 2022 calendar years;

1. Apply the weighted formula under the Collective Agreement for the 2021 and 2022 calendar years, excluding Level 2 and Level 3 students;

1. Compare the results of the weighted enrollment numbers for 2021 and 2022 calendar years, respectively, with the September 2017 weighted enrollment numbers, which includes Level 2 and Level 3 students; and

1. The administrator shall be entitled to the greater Administrative Allowance, based on the comparison performed in paragraph 3c) hereof.

In the event that an administrator changed schools during the 2021 and/or 2022 calendar years, and transferred to a school with a higher general student enrollment, such higher student enrollment would be taken into account in calculating administrator’s entitlement under paragraph 3 hereof.

The parties previously agreed to commit to the following:

The parties agree to undertake best efforts to negotiate new Administrative Allowances under Article 7 of the Collective Agreement, “Administrative & Supervisory Allowances”, during collective bargaining, which new article will not contain weighted formulas pertaining to types and/or levels of students. In the event that agreement is not reached in collective bargaining, either party may request that the dispute be referred to interest arbitration.

Subsequent to the above agreement to negotiate a new administrative allowance, the parties negotiated a new collective agreement (in an unprecedented expedited fashion as a result of a request by the Association due to emergent timelines associated with the legislative process for Bill 45 legislation), the parties agreed to a new collective agreement without having an opportunity to fulfill the conditions of this agreement.

Notwithstanding the new 2018-2022 collective agreement, the parties agree to put the commitment to review the administrative allowance into abeyance with the following caveats:

Should Bill 45 - The Public Schools Amendment and Manitoba Teachers’ Society Amendment Act which prescribes provincial teacher collective bargaining, and Bill 64 - The Education Modernization Act, be amended, not passed by legislature, be un-proclaimed, or quashed with the result being that the Division remains a school division and the employer of the Portage la Prairie Teachers’ Association and the parties negotiate a subsequent collective agreement, the parties will negotiate a new administrative allowance under the above original parameters as was originally agreed to by the parties.

Signed at Portage la Prairie this 20^th day of May, 2021.

The Portage la Prairie Teachers’ Association of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society

Per:_______________________________

Albert Krynski

PLPTA President

Per:_______________________________

Angela Mills

PLPTA Collective Bargaining Chairperson

Signed at Portage la Prairie this 20^th day of May, 2021.

The Portage la Prairie School Division

Per:_____________________________

Todd Cuddington

Superintendent

Per:_____________________________

Rod Brownlee

Chairperson of the Board

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

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

Memorandum of Agreement