H.6 LEAVES
Policy:
The Red River Valley School Division wants to allow flexibility for its staff but must also balance employment stability and limit the disruption to the students. In an effort to provide this balance, the following criteria will apply to the approval of leaves.
Partial Leaves
Partial leaves will only be considered if it results in staffing for full 1/4 time intervals. Due to the diversity in locations and sporadic funding changes this restriction will not apply to clinicians.
After 2 subsequent years of a partial leave, the employee must decide whether to return to the conditions of his/her contract or formally request to have the contract reduced permanently to the part-time allotment.
Leave Extensions
Extensions to leaves will be considered only if the projected return date coincides with the end of the first half of the school year or the start date of the following years school year.
Note: The first half of the school year would be the date the students return after the Christmas holidays for K-8 schools, or the start of the second semester in semester or partial semester S1-S4 Schools.
Extensions beyond a total of 2 consecutive years leave, including Secondments, will not be considered.
Leave considerations will follow the collective agreements.
This policy is in effect immediately: and therefore, will recognize leaves and partial leaves that are currently in existence and those that have been in existence for the past 2 consecutive years.
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