RED RIVER VALLEY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

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

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

BETWEEN

THE RED RIVER VALLEY SCHOOL DIVISION

AND

THE RED RIVER VALLEY TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION OF THE MANITOBA TEACHERS’ SOCIETY

The parties agree to the following application rules, terms and conditions clarifying the Maternity Leave Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plan per Article 33.

  1.  The maternity leave period which is eligible for payment under this article is the first seventeen (17) weeks (the two (2) week waiting period and the next immediate fifteen (15) weeks).
  1. Where any portion of the seventeen (17) weeks referenced in (1) above falls during the summer, Christmas break, Spring break, or any other period for when the teacher is not earning her salary, that portion of the maternity leave period does not qualify the teacher to receive maternity leave benefits pursuant to Article 33.
  1. A specific application or registration for a Supplemental Unemployment Benefits Plan is not required.  The only requirement from Human Resources Development Canada is that the comments section of the Record of Employment confirming that section 38 of the Employment Insurance Regulations are met.
  1. Subject to the qualifying period, as set out in paragraph (6), where a teacher had commenced her maternity leave prior to May 1, 2002 and a portion of the first seventeen (17) week falls after the start of the fall term 2002, the teacher shall be entitled to receive the paid maternity leave benefit for the portion (if any) of the first seventeen (17) weeks of maternity leave which falls after the start of the fall term 2002.
  1. Teachers must be under contract to the Division during the period when maternity leave benefits may be paid by the Division in order to be eligible to receive those payments.
  1. The qualifying period of seven (7) teaching months must be seven (7) consecutive teaching months in the employ of The Red River Valley School Division, as per the Manitoba Employment Standards Code legislation.  The full seven (7) months qualifying period must be served in order to qualify for any maternity leave payment.  For greater certainty, should a teacher fail to serve the full qualifying period prior to the start of the maternity leave, then that teacher shall be eligible to receive maternity leave benefits only for that portion of the seventeen (17) weeks referenced in (1) above which occurs after the completion of the seven (7) month qualifying period.
  1. The Division requires, from each of the teachers on maternity leave, a copy of the Statement of Finalized Employment Insurance Benefits in order to accurately calculate her entitlement.  This is a document which the teacher should have received (or will receive) from Employment Insurance four (4) to six (6) weeks from the date that she applied for Employment Insurance Benefits.  Should payments to teachers be required prior to receipt of the Statement, and estimate of the correct entitlement will be made with an adjustment made following receipt of the Statement.

Signed and agreed on this 20th day of May, 2021 on behalf of:

 

The Red River Valley School Division                        Red River Valley Teachers’ Association of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society

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Chairperson                                                                President

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Secretary-Treasurer                                                   Collective Bargaining Chairperson