Paid Professional Leave Days. Each nurse shall be entitled to up to three (3) paid professional development days per calendar year. The nurse shall provide the hospital with as much notice as is practicable to ensure that replacement staff are provided. The Nurse shall be advised, prior to taking any professional development days of any transportation, registration fees, subsistence and other expenses that will be paid by the Employer.
Paid Professional Leave Days. The “paid professional leave days” to which nurses may be entitled is a local issue in the current round of bargaining. NOTE: This issue cannot be referred to local issue interest arbitration.
Paid Professional Leave Days. In accordance with Article 9 the Hospital may grant nurses paid professional development days. The nurse shall provide the hospital with as much notice as is practicable to ensure that replacement staff are provided.
Paid Professional Leave Days. Each Full-time and Regular Part-time nurse shall be entitled to up to three (3) paid professional development days per calendar year or twenty-two and one half (22.5) hours. Casual nurses may apply for one (1) paid professional development day per calendar year or seven and one half (7.5) hours. The nurse shall provide the Hospital with as much notice as is practicable to ensure replacement staff are provided. Applications for Professional Development must meet individual learning goals as related to professional practice, and be approved by their Unit Manager. The nurse shall be advised, prior to taking any professional development days of any transportation, registration fees, meals, and other expenses that will be paid by the Employer. Where possible the knowledge acquired by the nurse will be shared in a manner agreed upon by the nurse and unit manager.
Paid Professional Leave Days. Each nurse shall be entitled to apply for professional development leave in a calendar year. The nurse shall provide the hospital with as much notice as is practicable to ensure that replacement staff are provided. The Nurse shall be advised, prior to taking any professional development days of any transportation, wage replacement, registration fees, subsistence and other expenses that will be paid by the Employer.
(a) The Hospital will pay the Bargaining Unit President or designate her/his regular straight time hourly rate for all time spent attending meetings with the Hospital outside his/her regularly scheduled hours when the Hospital specifically requests her/his attendance. Such hours will not be included for purposes of determining premium payments (i.e. these hours will not attract premium payment and will not be counted for purposes of determining eligibility for premium payment on other hours worked).
(b) The Hospital will provide the Bargaining Unit President with a paid leave of absence of one (1) days per month at the standard hours per shift on the unit where she/he works for the purpose of conducting Union business. The Parties will agree on the timing of this leave with a focus on efficient and effective use of this time for conducting Union business.
Paid Professional Leave Days. V.1 A nurse who chooses to attend a course that is directly related to her job and that was approved by her manager in advance, shall be reimbursed a portion of the costs of the course according to the policy and budget of the department or division. The department or division must provide employees with the most recent and available information regarding policies and funds for courses. The nurse must apply in writing in advance for authorization from her manager to attend the course and must present receipts when claiming the portion of expenses that had been approved.
Paid Professional Leave Days. V.1 A nurse who chooses to attend a course that is directly related to their job and that was approved by their manager in advance, shall be reimbursed a portion of the costs of the course according to the policy and budget of the department or division. The department or division must provide employees with the most recent and available information regarding policies and funds for courses. The nurse must apply in writing in advance for authorization from their manager to attend the course and must present receipts when claiming the portion of expenses that had been approved. The manager will provide information regarding unit funded educational opportunities to nurses on the unit. The unit manager will endeavour to equitably assign educational opportunities to all nurses that have made a written expression of interest on that unit.
Paid Professional Leave Days. Q.1 Baycrest is committed to the professional development of its nurses. Baycrest may at its discretion grant two (2) days of paid education leave per fiscal year to full-time nurses and one (1) day per fiscal year for regular part-time nurses who apply for such leave. Paid professional leave may be extended to casual employees at the Manager’s discretion. Nurses shall apply at least six (6) weeks in advance of requiring the leave. Baycrest shall give due consideration to the application having regard to the relevance of the education program to the nurse’s work within Baycrest.
Paid Professional Leave Days a. A school-year allocation will be made to each school of one day for each four full-time teachers. The assignments shall be made on a rotating basis to teachers who do not have a previously allocated professional leave day (see paragraph 10-c in this section). The rotation shall be planned by the Quality Improvement Team. Selection shall be subject to mutual approval of teacher and principal. Assignments shall be made by September 15 of each year. A substitute will be provided to replace the teacher using a paid professional leave day or days.
i. Each teacher receiving a professional leave day shall meet with the unit head or designee at a mutually agreed upon time to select a mutually agreed upon professional activity.
ii. A teacher wishing to attend a professional activity shall submit a request for the professional leave day through the Area Administrator on the form shown in Appendix 3.
iii. Any teacher not utilizing a day shall indicate this in writing to the unit head prior to February 1, and the professional leave shall be returned to the building pool.
b. A total of 100 days will be allocated for teacher use to be administered by the Areas for the special needs of teachers in curricular areas.
c. Each senior high school shall be allocated 12 days each school year and each middle school shall be allocated 11 days each school year to be used exclusively by department heads/team leaders. Vocational and Continuing Education (VACE) shall be allocated eight days, which includes six days for the vocational unit and two days for the Adult Learning Center.
d. The individual unit head may request professional leave days for a teacher without using the established bank of days so long as a substitute is not required to fill the vacancy created by the teacher who is attending a professional meeting and so long as the educational program is not adversely affected.
