Staff Development Days. (i) It shall be the policy of the Board to provide two (2) paid staff development days per year for employees. These days will be held on the days designated as Teachers' Provincial and Teachers' District professional development days. Employees will be required to attend activities/programs organized on those days. (ii) Programs for staff development days shall be organized by a joint committee of the Board and Union. The committee shall be comprised of four (4) representatives from each of the Board and the Union and shall be co-chaired by the parties on an annual basis. (iii) There shall be established a Staff Development Fund and the Board contribution to this fund shall be seven thousand dollars ($7,000) per year. Monies unspent in any year shall accumulate on a year-to-year basis. The expenditure of these funds shall be upon the recommendation of the joint committee established in (f)(ii) above. (iv) Where an employee is in attendance at a staff development day the hours of pay will be equal to the employee's regular daily hours of work, or the time of the in-service, whichever is the greater.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
