Supernumerary employment. Supernumerary employment is employment for a period of up to thirty (30) school weeks. An employee whose position is disestablished as a result of voluntary election or otherwise who has either elected to be employed as a supernumerary teacher, or who has not taken up any of the other options set out in clause 11.3.4 before the date of disestablishment, shall be entitled to supernumerary employment in accordance with the following provisions:
Supernumerary employment. Supernumerary employment is employment for a period of up to thirty (30) school weeks. An employee whose position is disestablished as a result of voluntary election or otherwise who has either elected to be employed as a supernumerary teacher, or who has not taken up any of the other options set out in clause 2.13.3 before the date of disestablishment, shall be entitled to supernumerary employment in accordance with the following provisions: the employee will continue to be employed at their existing salary for a period of thirty (30) school weeks from the effective date of the disestablishment of the position (normally at the beginning of term one of the following year); in the case of school mergers the employee may elect to be employed at their existing salary for a period of forty (40) school weeks at the merged school or in any other school – provided that the school board of that school gives consent – from the effective date of the disestablishment of the position and the provisions of clause 4.4.1(a) and clause 4.4.1(b) of Appendix 4 apply; in the case of school closure the employee may be supernumerary for forty (40) school weeks in any other school provided that the school board of that school gives consent; the employee may elect to take up her/his supernumerary employment at the same school or at any other school at the request of the employee and with the approval of the original employer and the school board at the other school; the employer will encourage the employee to find a suitable alternative permanent teaching position and will meet the actual and reasonable expenses of attending interviews at other schools where prior approval is given; if during the supernumerary period the employee applies for a permanent position of equal or lower status for which s/he is suitable at the school or centre where s/he is employed at the time, s/he shall be appointed to, or in the case of a merger reconfirmed or reassigned to that position; the employee’s supernumerary employment shall cease upon the employee being appointed to a new teaching position or upon the employee choosing to resign or at the expiration of the applicable number of school weeks specified in clause 2.13.4(1)(a) from the effective date of the disestablishment of the position, whichever is the earlier; in the case of the closure, merger or change of class of a school, the supernumerary period shall begin on the date of the opening of the new school, unless the employee takes up h...
