9. Substitutes
9.01 Rates
2024/2025 and 2025/2026 (with GPI factored in)
Division Fall 2024 Fall 2025 Feb 1, 2026
Winnipeg Certified 228 235 237
Uncertified 164 188 190
Effective last day of Collective Agreement to be implemented at the start of the September 2026 School Year. The per diem rates for substitute Teachers shall be as follows:
Harmonized Rates – Effective July 1, 2026 Certified $237.36 Uncertified $189.88. Vacation pay is included in the above rates.
9.02 EXTENDED SUBSTITUTE TEACHING
A period of substitute teaching of at least six (6) consecutive working days in the same assignment shall be termed extended substitute teaching.
Upon commencement of the sixth (6th) day, a substitute Teacher shall be paid for each day taught at the per diem rate. This rate of pay shall be retroactive to the first (1st) day of the teaching assignment and shall continue in effect until the end of that specific teaching assignment.
9.03 TIMETABLE
The timetable for a substitute Teacher shall normally be the same as the timetable of the Teacher who is being replaced unless otherwise determined at the time of the assignment or except in unforeseen circumstances. For substitutes in an extended substitute teaching assignment, Article 6.01 Preparation Time shall apply.
9.04 REASSIGNMENT
1. A substitute Teacher who is called for a half (1/2) day assignment, who reports, and who finds that their services are not required, shall be offered an alternative teaching assignment and shall be paid a half (1/2) day’s pay for reporting for duty.
2. A substitute Teacher who is called for a full day assignment, who reports, and who finds that their services are not required, shall be offered an alternative teaching assignment and shall be paid a full day’s pay for reporting for duty.
9.05 EMERGENCY EVENTS – PROTECTION OF PAY
On the day of an emergency closure of a school or early dismissal for emergency reasons, substitute Teachers will be paid what they would have earned if the school had not closed. In the event of such occurrence, a substitute may, at the discretion of the School Division, and where practical to do so, be reassigned to another location.
9.06 LIMITED TERM TEACHER – GENERAL CONTRACTS
A substitute Teacher who has been employed for at least twenty (20) days of extended substitute teaching shall, on the twenty-first (21st) day, be signed to a Limited Term Teacher – General Contract, unless the return of the regular Teacher or conclusion of the substitute assignment is within five (5) working days.
9.07 NO BREAK IN SERVICE
Administration days, professional development days and unplanned school closures shall not constitute a break in continuity during an extended substitute teaching assignment and shall be included in the number of consecutive days employed for the purpose of this Article.
9.08 SICK LEAVE
1. A substitute Teacher who has been employed for at least nine (9) consecutive days of extended substitute teaching in the same assignment in a School Year shall be entitled to one (1) day of sick leave with pay for each nine (9) days taught in that assignment.
2. Sick leave shall not be accumulated from assignment to assignment.
3. Assignment shall mean consecutive teaching days in one (1) position.
4. The use of sick leave with pay shall not constitute an interruption of the extended substitute teaching assignment.
9.09 ON-THE-JOB INJURY
Entitlement to accrued sick leave or on-the-job injury entitlement ceases upon the last day prior to the return of the Teacher being replaced in the assignment.
9.10 LEAVES FOR OTHER REASONS
Where during an extended substitute teaching assignment, the substitute Teacher becomes unavailable to work due to emergency or death in the substitute Teacher’s immediate family, the substitute will be granted unpaid leave. Where the substitute Teacher is able to return to the same extended assignment the days of leave shall not constitute a break in substitute teaching. Immediate family shall be defined as per Article 7.04 Compassionate and Bereavement Leave.
9.11 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
A substitute Teacher who is not on an extended substitute teaching assignment and wishes to attend a School Division or school based professional development day may make a request to do so with the Superintendent or designate. The School Division has the discretion to approve or deny such request. If approved, attendance will be without pay and will not bridge two separate substitute assignments together for days under Article 9.02 Extended Substitute Teaching.
9.12 IN-SERVICE PAY
Substitute Teachers, when requested by the School Division to attend divisional in-services, will receive the substitute daily rate prorated for half day or full day depending on the length of the inservice; or, shall receive their rate as per Article 9.02 Extended Substitute Teaching if the substitute Teacher is on an extended substitute assignment.
9.13 MILEAGE ALLOWANCE
A School Division shall reimburse each substitute Teacher the same travel reimbursement rate normally received by the Teacher being replaced for travel between an assignment involving two or more schools or work sites within a School Division’s jurisdiction.
9.14 PAYMENT OF SALARY
Substitute Teachers shall be paid on a semi-monthly basis, with a one (1) pay period holdback.
9.15 DEDUCTION OF PROFESSIONAL FEES
All substitute Teachers shall be required to pay the fees of the Society and the Association. Such fees shall be deducted and be pro-rated on the basis of the number of days worked in that specific pay period. The School Division shall provide the collected fees no later than the 15th day of the following month. Any operational change that a School Division makes regarding the implementation of this clause shall be effective no later than the start of the 2025/2026 School Year. The Association and MTS shall provide the Division with at least two (2) months advance notice of any change in fees. The Association shall indemnify and save harmless the School Division from any and all losses, costs, liabilities or expenses suffered or sustained by the Division as a result of any claim or legal action arising from the deduction of local Association fees or the Society fees.
9.16 GRIEVANCE PROCESS
The only matters that may be grieved under Article 5.13 – Grievance Process by a substitute Teacher or the Association on behalf of the substitute Teacher are the provisions of Article 9 Substitutes, and the substantive rights and obligations of employment related and human rights statutes to the extent they are incorporated into this Collective Agreement.
9.17 PROVISIONS THAT APPLY
The provisions of the Collective Agreement do not apply to substitute Teachers except as expressly provided for in Article 9 – Substitutes and the following articles:
Article 1.01 – Purpose
Article 1.02 – Definitions
Article 1.03 – Scope
Article 1.04 – Effective Period
Article 1.07 – Obligation to Act Fairly
Article 2.01 – Educational Qualifications
Article 2.07 – Letter of Authority and Permit
Article 2.09 – Increments
Article 3.01 – Salary Schedule
Article 5.01 – Harassment
Article 5.02 – Freedom from Violence
Article 5.04 – Non-Emergent Medical Procedures
Article 5.05 – Inclement Weather
Article 5.10 – Right to Representation
Article 5.14 – Complaints
Article 5.15 – Discipline
Article 6.01 – Preparation Time
Article 6.02 – Length of Instructional Day
Article 6.03 – Lunch Period Article
7.03 – On-the-job Injury – see also 9.09