PRAIRIE SPIRIT TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

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

Article 3 Salaries

3:06 Provisions for Part Time Teachers

  1. Teachers employed on a part time basis shall:
  1. be paid according to their qualifications as established in 3:01.
  1. be paid on a rate based on the fraction of the time employed.
  1. the service of a part time teacher shall be accumulated in the proportion of actual percentage of time employed in each school year.  A part time teacher who will remain in the same incremental step for more than one school year shall receive an increment effective the following September in said increment step.  That increment shall be paid in the amount of the proportion of experience earned of time worked multiplied by the appropriate increment.  Upon receipt of this increment no additional increment shall be paid until the teacher moves to the next incremental step. 
  1. be deducted fees in the manner prescribed by the Manitoba Teachers’ Society, the Prairie Spirit Teachers’ Association and Council of School Leaders.

 

  1. Part time teachers’ contracts shall, within reason, reflect the actual time taught.

 

  1. Part time teachers shall receive preparation time and shall be assigned supervision duties (as appropriate to the school in which they teach) on a pro rata basis.

 

  1. Part time teachers’ timetables shall be blocked whenever possible.  If not possible, split-shifts shall be arranged at the least inconvenience possible for the teacher involved.

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  1. Part time teachers, in consultation with the school principal, will identify, at the commencement of the school year, the required professional development, administration and parent teacher days that will be worked on a pro rata basis.​​​​​​​
  1. When part time teachers are requested by administration to participate in professional development, administration, or parent teacher day activities requiring time over and above their percentage contract time, they shall, at their request, receive 1/200th or portion thereof for the time spent over and above their regularly scheduled working time during the school day.  Time in lieu of monetary compensation may be given if mutually agreed upon between the teacher and employer.
  1. If mutually agreeable between a part time teacher and administration to attend divisional committee meetings or in-services during the part of the school day that the part time teacher does not normally teach, the part time teacher shall be given time in lieu of monetary compensation.

 

  1. When a staff meeting is called at a time when a part time teacher is not on duty, that teacher shall not be required to attend the staff meeting.  It is the teacher’s responsibility to be apprised of the staff meeting agenda and the decisions made.

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  1. Part time teachers shall be guaranteed the right to return to the first available full-time position, within their qualifications and experience, where part time work was undertaken at the initiative of the employer.