Effective September 01 or the date of signing this agreement, whichever is the latter, the following shall apply:
- Substitute teacher means a teacher employed on a day-to-day basis.
- The salary rate for substitute teachers will be in accordance with the following schedule:
$160.00 per day, effective date of signing
Substitute rates for the 2021/22 school year will be effective on the date the parties confirm the amount of the 2021 COLA adjustment defined in Article 3.03. For clarity, this adjustment will not be applied retroactively.
- A period of substitute teaching in one particular assignment of at least five (5) days shall be deemed extended substitute teaching. A substitute teacher employed for a period in excess of five (5) consecutive teaching days in any extended teaching assignment, shall be paid on the sixth (6) day thereafter a per diem of his/her qualifications according to Table 3.03.
In-service days and/or Administrative days, shall not constitute a break in the extended teaching assignment.
- In addition, where during an extended substitute teaching assignment, the substitute teacher becomes unavailable to work due to attending what would be described as a family related emergency or for the death or serious illness of the substitute teacher’s family or for attending to Association or MTS business as a representative of the Association and where the substitute teacher returns to the teaching assignment immediately thereafter such unavailability, such days of unavailability as noted above shall not constitute a break in extended substitute teaching.
Definition of family for the above clause to be applied consistent with the current collective agreement.
- Unless otherwise determined at the time of the assignment, or except in unforeseen circumstances, the timetable for a substitute teacher in any assignment shall normally be the same as the timetable of the teacher who is being replaced.
- A substitute teacher who is called to work for an assignment for one half (1/2) day or less shall be paid one half (1/2) of the daily rate. A substitute teacher, who is called to work for an assignment of greater than a half day but less than a full day, shall be paid the daily rate. Notwithstanding the above, where the substitute teacher is replacing a teacher whose contractual assignment is more than 50% time but less than full time, the substitute shall be paid for a period equivalent in time to the assignment of the teacher being replaced.
- A substitute teacher who is called to work for an assignment and who reports for the assignment finding that his or her services are not required shall be offered an alternative assignment equivalent in time to the substitute’s original assignment and when such an alternative assignment is not available shall be paid a half (1/2) day’s pay at the applicable rate in lieu.
- Limited Term Teacher-General Contract
A substitute teacher who has been employed for at least twenty (20) days of extended substitute teaching shall, on the twenty-first (21) day, be signed to a Limited Term Teacher-General contract, unless the return of the regular teacher or conclusion of the substitute assignment is immediately imminent.
- Sick Leave
A substitute teacher who has been employed for at least nine (9) consecutive days of extended substitute teaching in a school year shall be entitled to one (1) day of sick leave with pay for each nine (9) days taught in that assignment. Sick leave shall not accumulate from one extended substitute teacher assignment to another.
The use of a sick leave day with pay shall not constitute an interruption of the extended substitute teaching assignment.
- Pay relating to the salary earned by substitute teachers during any month shall be received by those teachers via direct deposit not later than the fifteenth (15) day of the following calendar month.
- Manitoba Teachers’ Society fees shall be deducted from a substitute teacher’s monthly pay.
- The following clauses of the Collective Agreement apply to substitute teachers:
Article 1 – Purpose
Article 2 – Effective Period
Article 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.05, 3.07, 3.08, 3.09, 3.10, 3.13 (as it relates to the conversion to per diem in accordance with 3.13 c)
Article 14 – Noon Hour
Article 18 – Complaints Against Teachers
Article 19 – Settlement of Dispute - the only matters which may be grieved under Article 19 (Settlement of Dispute) by a substitute teacher or the Association on behalf of a substitute teacher are the provisions of this Article and the substantive rights and obligations of employment-related and human rights statutes, to the extent that they are incorporated into this collective agreement.
Article 22 – Interest on Retroactive Pay
Article 23 – Freedom From Violence
Article 24 – Signing Page