 We've added some self-booking blocks for talking to an RTU executive assistant. Fill out the form, and an executive assistant will phone you back at the appointed time. Find it HERE.  We've also added self-serve booking for RTU visits to your school!We'll come for your lunch hour with Swag and answer any questions your staff has. You can book up to 60 days in advance, but not closer than 4 days. Find it HERE. As teachers we’re used to dealing with 2 types of year, school year and calendar year, on a regular basis. Oddly enough, many of us forget that our “yearly” salary from the collective step scale does not correspond to the fiscal year. This is of course due to our raises coming in April and, when applicable, step increases occurring in August, at the start of a new school year. Even a teacher on the top step has two different “yearly” salaries in a calendar year. Need an example? Let’s take a Step-9 teacher starting in January of 2024. All numbers are gross, before any deductions.
If we add up these 3 values $18,689 and $37,863 and $18,164 we get $74,717. You will not find $74,717 anywhere on a contract or in a collective agreement. All contracts are written for SCHOOL years, not financial years. These amounts will all vary with step level and percentage contract. But wait……there’s more! You may have received student teacher monies, oversize compensation, sick day payouts, and/or medical insurance contributions. All of these are taxable forms of income that also must be included in your gross earnings. These monies are all very particular to the specific teacher and further change the amount reported on your tax documents. The salary scale really is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to calculating your pay. The table below has sample rough calculations for every step. Find the step you were in last school year and follow that line across.   How the withheld taxes on your retro payment will be calculated. August 19th, 2024 UPDATE: The payment will be made on the paychecque of August 29th, 2024. The interest accrued since August 9th will be included on the same paychecque. The Provincial Agreement has been signed. This means that there are sixty calendar days until our retro payments are due, making their deadline August 9th, 2024. If this deadline is not met, interest will begin to accrue from this date. How do you know if your retroactive pay is correct? A couple of points:
For example, a High School teacher was on parental leave. For the weeks where only QPIP was received, no retroactive salary will be paid for this period. There was no salary from the school board earned during that period, to be subject to the pay increases. For the period where she was back at work, retroactive pay will be calculated. Another example would be a part-time teacher who had two weeks of no work between contracts within a year. This teacher would not earn retroactive pay for those two weeks of not working, so their payout would be lower by 5% (10 days out of 200 not worked). There was an increase in substitution rates. Therefore, casual supply will generate a retroactive payment. The provided calculations have two red columns, one for each raise that occurred. The second red column accounts for the fact that the retroactivity from April 2024 is only for 8 of a year’s 26 payments, not a full school year. The total of these two columns is the teal column at the far right, which is the approximate gross* repayment that someone on that step can expect, based on a full 100% workload. *Gross amounts calculated are before any deductions are made. All retroactive payments will be subject to all deductions usually taken off of every paycheck (varies by teacher).    The commun front has released a document outlining the new agreement. Here are some highlights. 
Find the complete document here. 
The three confusing categories of work that aren’t teaching…. OPD or Other professional duties (workload described in provincial and local ententes) Comp time or compensated time (from local entente) Value added (from provincial entente) So you are on a committee or running a student musical or another non-teaching activity, where does it fit? The first question to ask is approval from your administrator. Do this before embarking on any activity. Activities outside of the classroom that involve students require administration and governing board approval well in advance. Personal projects, PD and Committees have various manners of being selected, assigned or elected to. What they all have in common though is that your administrator is aware of your involvement before it occurs. Once that’s settled comes the question of which of 3 possible categories does the activity fit in? There are some hard rules.
Any activity that does not involve students can be OPD or Comp Time. The decision of where certain activities fall should have been discussed at the school council. Generally, most schools have a culture of which committees and activities are workload and which ones are not.  Workload or not?
If an activity is OPD it is part of your yearly workload or what you are doing to earn your salary. If it is comp time it is extra for which you receive time off, up to three pedagogical days. If the activity is value-added it is also not part of your workload and you will receive a modest monetary remuneration at the end of the school year. How much money for value added? A whole other article worth of explanation. How much time off? 20 to 39 hours of activity = 1 pedagogical day 40 to 59 hours of activity = 2 pedagogical days 60 + hours of activity = 3 pedagogical days Can I take them whenever I want? No, your admin gets final say. They cannot block you from taking them, but can decide the when and how of it. They can require that you take two half days instead of one whole day. The days are usually the last pedagogical days at the end of the school year. Does that mean someone else will do my report cards/marking/close my classroom/tidy my desk? No, you must complete all your workload duties before taking the comp time. |
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