Safe Working Conditions The Employer undertakes to maintain office furniture, equipment, etc., in a practical and safe condition in order to avoid injury to employees or damage to their attire. Employees, for their part and in their own interest, are expected to advise the Employer of any such potentially injurious equipment.
WORKING CONDITIONS 12.01 It is understood that a Casual Occasional Teacher shall be offered an assignment of one-half (1/2) day, two-thirds (2/3) day or a full day.
12.02 Each Occasional Teacher shall have available a daily lunch period of not less than forty (40) uninterrupted and consecutive minutes free from supervision, teaching, or other assigned duties.
12.03 Effective the date of ratification by both parties, the timetable for an Occasional Teacher shall be the same as the timetable of the teacher who is being replaced. In the case of casual supply, normally that will not include yard duty prior to the commencement of class on the first morning of an assignment or prior to the commencement of the afternoon class on the first day if it is a half-day afternoon assignment.
12.04 When an Occasional Teacher substitutes for a teacher who is receiving a travel allowance and travel time, the Occasional Teacher shall receive, in accordance with the Employer’s procedure, reimbursement at the Employer’s current per kilometer rate and the same travel time as provided for the teacher being replaced.
12.05 The Employer shall not require any Occasional Teacher to perform any medical or physical procedure on any pupil that might in any way endanger the safety or well being of the pupil or subject the Occasional Teacher to risk, injury or liability for negligence.
12.06 When a Professional Development Day falls within a Long Term Occasional Assignment, the occasional teacher shall be paid for that day provided they participate in the activities for the day and it shall be considered as part of the current assignment. A Professional Development Day shall not interrupt the continuity of an Occasional Teacher assignment.
12.07 When an Occasional Teacher accepts a pre-arranged daily assignment such assignment will not be cancelled by the Occasional Teacher within seventy-two (72) hours preceding the commencement of the assignment in order to accept a different daily assignment or accept an assignment in another school board jurisdiction unless agreed to by the Board.
12.08 When a Long Term Occasional teaching assignment is completed prior to the required date for report cards to be submitted, the Occasional Teacher may be assigned to assist with the completion of these report cards. In such an event, the Occasional Teacher shall be paid for the time to complete the report cards, up to a maximum of three (3) days. The rate of pay shall be the rate the Occasional Teacher received during the long term teaching assignment.
Unsafe Working Conditions Employees shall be recognized by the Employer to have the competence to determine what constitutes unsafe working conditions within their discipline. No employee shall be disciplined for refusal to work in a situation which is deemed unsafe beyond the reasonable requirements of the employee's job.
TEACHING CONDITIONS The parties recognize that optimum school facilities for both student and teacher are desirable to insure the high quality of education that is the goal of both the Association and the Board. It is also acknowledged that the primary duty and responsibility of the teacher is to teach and that the organization of the school and school day should be directed toward ensuring that the energy of the teacher is primarily utilized to this end.
Unsafe Conditions In accordance with 29 CFR § 1977, occasions might arise when an employee is confronted with a choice between not performing assigned tasks or subjecting himself/herself to serious injury or death arising from a hazardous condition at the workplace. If the employee, with no reasonable alternative, refuses in good faith to expose himself/herself to the dangerous condition, he/she would be protected against subsequent discrimination. The condition causing the employee's apprehension of death or injury must be of such a nature that a reasonable person, under the circumstances then confronting the employee, would conclude that there is a real danger of death or serious injury and that there is insufficient time, due to the urgency of the situation, to eliminate the danger by resorting to regular statutory enforcement channels. In addition, in such circumstances, the employee, where possible, must also have sought from his Employer, and been unable to obtain, a correction of the dangerous condition.
