Budgetary Restraint. It is agreed that should the Board need to reduce services for budgetary reasons, a meeting may be called by the Board. At the meeting the Board will advise the Union of the amount needed to be saved through staff/service level reduction. In good faith, the Union will work with the Board by providing advice as to recommended ways to achieve the reductions. Nothing in this Agreement will preclude the Parties from agreeing to re-open the Agreement in order to provide a wage adjustment for an increase in job security.
Budgetary Restraint. It is agreed that should the board need to reduce services for budgetary reasons, a meeting may be called by the Board. At the meeting the Board will advise the Union of the amount needed to be saved through staff/ service level reduction. In good faith, the Union will work with the Board by providing advice as to recommended ways to achieve the reductions. Nothing in this Agreement will preclude the Parties from agreeing to re-open the Agreement in order to provide a wage adjustment for an increase in job security. An annual salary will be paid to full-time Speech Language Pathologists who will work on a school year basis. The School Board may schedule hours of work and work schedules and determine duties in the same manner as provided to the School Board vis-a-vis teachers under the School Act. The annualized salary includes all payments (including statutory holidays, vacation, .65%, overtime, gratuity, cartage, etc.). Deductions for unpaid absences will be the same as the calculation used for unpaid absent teachers. The Master’s scale applies to Speech Language Pathologists who have a Master’s in Speech Language Pathology that is equivalent to that obtained at the University of British Columbia.