The entitlement to a paid PEL day may apply for a Daily Occasional Teacher when a previously scheduled assignment needs to be cancelled due to an emergency/urgent situation.
Daily Occasional Teachers who have been employed for at least a week with the board can access paid PEL days for reasons such as:
- Personal illness, injury or medical emergency; or
- Death, illness, injury, medical emergency or urgent matter relating to the following family members:
- Spouse (married or unmarried);
- Parent, step-parent, foster-parent, child, step-child, foster child, grandparent, step-grandparent, grandchild, step-grandchild of the employee or the employee's spouse;
- Spouse of the employee's child;
- Brother or sister of the employee;
- Relative of the employee who is dependent on the employee for care or assistnace.
Daily Occasional Teachers in need of such a paid absence can find the "Personal Emergency Leave Form" in the Employee Portal under electronic forms. Once completed, these forms are to be submitted to Human Resources for approval.
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Executive member Cindy Webb has contributed the following;
Do you have a passion for building a just society? Have interest in social justice and equity issues? Love to teach and travel? Are you available for the month of July? ETFO fully sponsors 16 members to participate with Canadian Teachers' Federation on Project Overseas. Please see the link for details.
Applications are now open for members who have taught for 5 years. Application deadline October 31st.
http://www.etfo.ca/buildingajustsociety/worldissues/pages/projectoverseas.aspx
