SUNRISE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

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

ARTICLE 17 - ASSOCIATION LEAVE

17.01 - Leave of Absence for Executive Duties

  1. A teacher, being a member of the Association's Executive Committee or of the Executive Committee of any branch thereof or of any special committee of the Society or being appointed an official representative or a delegate of the Society, or any branch thereof, and being authorized by the Executive Committee of the Society to attend a meeting of the committee of which he/she is a member or to act as a representative or delegate of the Society or of any branch of the Society in a matter of Society business requiring absence from school, shall have the right to attend such meeting or to act as such representative or delegate and shall be excused from school duties for either purpose or both purposes on not more than a total of eight (8) teaching days in any school year provided that a satisfactory substitute can be secured and the cost of the substitute is reimbursed to the Division by the Society or Association.

 

  1. A maximum of sixty (60) days in total may be taken for the purposes mentioned above during any school year by members of the Association.  An additional forty (40) days of leave shall be granted for a member of the Provincial Executive at 1/200ths deduction.

 

  1. No additional leave of absence beyond eight (8) days in a school year shall be taken for the purposes mentioned above, except with the consent and approval of the Board.

 

  1. Five teaching days notice should be given to the Division by the teacher requiring the leave, provided that, in the event less notice is given, the Division shall not unreasonably withhold its consent for leave.

17.02 - Leave for Association President/MTS President or Vice-President

  1. The Association President shall be permitted leave from teaching duties of either 50% or 100% of the time.  This percentage shall be determined by the Association prior to the beginning of the school year.  There shall be no loss of benefits and the Association shall reimburse the Division for the entitled salary for the percentage of time that the President is absent from teaching duties.  The Association will also reimburse for the appropriate percentage of allowance, where applicable, benefits (such as E.I., C.P.P. and Group Life Insurance premiums, etc.) and other costs related to the President’s leave.  Except in the case of a 50% president, the right granted herein shall be in place of and not in addition to the rights granted by Leave of Absence for Executive Duties article of this Agreement.  Upon the return of the teacher to the Division, the teacher shall be reinstated in either the same or comparable position.

 

  1. A teacher who is elected to The Manitoba Teachers’ Society as President or Vice-President shall, upon reasonable notice, be granted leave for that term of office and, upon the return of that teacher to the Division, shall be reinstated in either the same or comparable position.