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Agenda  Numbers  Rights Under Collective Agreement  Spring Transfer Process (STP)  Qualifications  Rescindment Rights  Severance  Recall Rights  Employment Insurance (EI)  Benefits  Summer School  Summer Posting Period  You Have a Temporary Job  You Have Been Fully Recalled  After 2011 September 01  4 Reminders

The Numbers  Lay-Off FTE is 144  To achieve this FTE, 187 teaching employees had to be laid-off  This number translates to approximately 2 years and 8 months of seniority

Rights under Collective Agreement  Right to post into assignment(s) as a D category applicant up to 2011 June 30  Right to rescindment up to 2011 June 30  Recall after 2011 June 30  Severance after 2011 June 30

Spring Transfer Process (STP)  Apply for postings as usual but as “D” Category  Access to postings as usual  Complete “Positions Applied For” form  No interview

STP (cont’d)  “Interview Committee” chooses most senior qualified candidate  Job offer confirmed through HR  Turn down of offers in this period will not affect recall rights

Status On Leave  If you are on Maternity/Parental/Sick leave your layoff is suspended until the end of your Leave period  Your layoff is effective your date of return  You will be considered a “D” candidate for the Post and Fill process for the duration of your leave

Qualifications  Paper qualification  Experience qualification  Reasonable expectation for success  Individuals should apply for positions for which they believe they are qualified

Qualifications (cont’d)  Qualification adjudication, if disputed, will be determined by the layoff committee.  If layoff committee cannot agree expedited arbitration is possible.

Rescindment Rights  Before 2011 June 30, if successful through the posting process, the layoff notice will be rescinded

Rescindment Rights (cont’d)  Prior to 2011 June 30, individuals who apply for and accept an FTE lower than their current FTE, will be considered to have reduced their FTE voluntarily and permanently

Severance  Severance Pay - 5% per year of salary of continuous service for a full 1.00 FTE  Rounded to the nearest month to a maximum of one year of salary  Pro-rated for less than 1.00 FTE

Severance (cont’d)  An individual has the right to collect severance any time for the 28 months following date of layoff  Severance is final! All ties with the VBE are severed  To collect severance, a letter must be sent to HR

Recall Rights (after 2011 June 30)  All individuals not receiving rescindment or severance will be placed on a recall list for a period of 28 months from date of layoff  All individuals on the recall list have the right to apply for the TOC list and will be accepted to that list  Individuals may apply for temporary or continuing contracts but at all times maintain their laid off FTE recall right

Recall Rights (cont’d)  Turn down of temporary offers will not affect recall rights  Turn down of continuing offers will affect recall rights – a second turn down of a continuing offer will result in the individual losing all recall rights including severance

Employment Insurance (EI)  For all laid off continuing contracted teachers, as of 2011 June 30 a Record of Employment (ROE) will be electronically submitted to EI  Teachers who are recalled should be aware that EI funds received may be audited

EI (cont’d)  Instructions on “How to Make an EI application via the Web” will be provided to teachers who receive layoff notices  Teachers may apply for EI on their last day of work

Benefits  MSP, Extended Health, Dental and Group Life Insurance stay in effect until 2011 August 31  Employees on the recall list may continue benefits with 100% being prepaid by the employee

Summer School  Separate from K-12  Has no bearing on the layoff/recall process

Summer Posting Period (SPP)  Teacher postings are online at for VBE employees  VBE username and password is required to view postings  Please contact Helpdesk to set up your username and password

SPP (cont’d)  Tuesday, August 16 – Postings open  Monday, August 22 – Postings close at 4:30 p.m.  August – Postings may be viewed  8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. VBE - Room TBA

SPP (cont’d)  Apply to temporary or continuing postings as a “D” Category candidate  Awarding of temporary postings does not affect recall status  Individuals MUST complete temporary contracts for which they have applied and been the successful candidate

SPP (cont’d)  Individuals who are the successful candidate for a continuing position equivalent to their laid off FTE are deemed to be fully recalled  Individuals who are the successful candidate for a continuing position less than their laid off FTE retain partial recall rights

SPP (cont’d)  In all cases individuals on the recall list, when applying for jobs, will not receive interviews  The most senior qualified candidate will be selected by the school “Interview Committee”  Job offers will be confirmed through HR

You Have a Temporary Job  Must complete all temporary contracts  Seniority is accumulated but only applied once continuing status has been regained

You Have a Temporary Job (cont’d)  Sick Days – banked sick days before 2011 June 30 may be accessed while on temporary contract  Don’t forget that the 28 month recall time period is still in effect

You Have Been Fully Recalled  Employees have been restored to full status  Access to all rights under the Collective Agreement including sick days banked and seniority accumulation

After 2011 Sept 01  Maintain up-to-date information regarding and/or home address  Apply for postings as a “D” category candidate through the normal process

After 2011 Sept 01 (cont’d)  Recall rights continue as described previously  Remember – THE CLOCK IS STILL RUNNING!!

Recall List  If you are currently a “D” category who was laid off last year you maintain all the rights described today, except you have, effective 2011 June 30, 16 months of recall rights remaining  If you have worked in a temporary contract this year, you have not accrued seniority, nor has the clock stopped ticking on your recall

4 Reminders  1.Severance means severed  2.If you are on the recall list you must apply for the TOC list – IT IS NOT AUTOMATIC

4 Reminders (cont’d)  3.TOC on scale days will count for seniority if and when continuing status is regained  4.Recall is an active process – YOU MUST APPLY FOR JOBS