PROVINCIAL FEDERATION RELEASE DAYS. At the request of the OSSTF/FEESO Provincial Office, and in accordance with local notification processes, OSSTF Teachers and Occasional Teachers, subject to program and operational needs shall be released for provincial collective bargaining and related meetings.
PROVINCIAL FEDERATION RELEASE DAYS a) At the request of the OSSTF/FEESO Provincial Office, and in accordance with local notification processes, OSSTF/FEESO education workers, subject to program and operational needs, shall be released for provincial collective bargaining and related meetings.
b) Federation release days granted for the purpose of such provincial federation work will not be charged against local collective agreement federation release time.
c) OSSTF/FEESO education workers released for such provincial federation work shall receive salary, benefits, and all other rights and privileges under the collective agreement in accordance with local provisions.
d) OSSTF/FEESO Provincial Office shall reimburse the Employer as per the local collective agreement.
e) Nothing in this article affects existing local entitlements to Federation Leave.
PROVINCIAL FEDERATION RELEASE DAYS a) At the request of the OSSTF/FEESO Provincial Office, and in accordance with local notification processes, OSSTF/FEESO education workers, subject to program and operational needs, shall be released for provincial collective bargaining and related meetings.
b) Federation release days granted for the purpose of such provincial federation work will not be charged against local collective agreement federation release time.
c) OSSTF/FEESO education workers released for such provincial federation work shall receive salary, benefits, and all other rights and privileges under the collective agreement in accordance with local provisions.
d) OSSTF/FEESO Provincial Office shall reimburse the Employer as per the local collective agreement.
e) Nothing in this article affects existing local entitlements to Federation Leave.
A. Sick Leave Credit-Based Retirement Gratuities (where applicable)
1. An Employee is not eligible to receive a sick leave credit gratuity after August 31, 2012, except a sick leave credit gratuity that the Employee had accumulated and was eligible to receive as of that day.
2. If the Employee is eligible to receive a sick leave credit gratuity, upon the Employee’s retirement, the gratuity shall be paid out at the lesser of,
(a) the rate of pay specified by the board’s system of sick leave credit gratuities that applied to the Employee on August 31, 2012; and
(b) the Employee’s salary as of August 31, 2012.
3. If a sick leave credit gratuity is payable upon the death of an Employee, the gratuity shall be paid out in accordance with subsection (2).
4. For greater clarity, all eligibility requirements must have been met as of August 31, 2012 to be eligible for the aforementioned payment upon retirement, and the Employer and Union agree that any and all wind-up payments to which Employees without the necessary years of service were entitled to under Ontario Regulation 01/13: Sick Leave Credits and Sick Leave Credit Gratuities, have been paid.
5. For the purposes of the following board, despite anything in the board’s system of sick leave credit gratuities, it is a condition of eligibility to receive a sick leave credit gratuity that the Employee have ten (10) years of service with the board:
i. Near North District School Board
ii. Avon Maitland District School Board iii. Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx District School Board
