Staff Meetings & Lieu Time

We are receiving a lot of questions regarding staff meetings and lieu time. Members directed by their supervisor to attend staff meetings, or events MUST ATTEND provided they are given lieu time. Members should be given reasonable notice of mandatory meetings outside of normal hours to accommodate travel or family status. Please review the Articles from the Central Collective Agreement below for more information.

Local 2100 has created a lieu time tracking sheet in order to help members track lieu time, please click here to access this document. Alternatively members can access this document by logging onto our website www.opseu2100.ca or via the OPSEU chicklet on the Board’s website.

Attendance at Mandatory Meetings/School Events

Article 11.00

Where an Employee is required through direction by the Board to attend work outside of regular working hours, the provisions of the local collective agreement regarding hours of work, including any relevant overtime/lieu time provisions, shall apply. Required attendance outside of regular working hours may include, but is not limited to school staff meetings, parent/teacher interviews, curriculum nights, Individual Education Plan and Identification Placement Review Committee meetings, and consultations with Board professional staff.

School Year/Hours of Work

Article 18.04

Overtime must be approved in writing in advance by an Employee’s immediate supervisor or designate.

Article 18.05

Approved overtime shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half times the regular straight time rate for all such hours worked in excess of thirty-five (35) hours per week, provided that a full fifteen (15) minutes of overtime has been worked in excess of the employee’s regularly scheduled daily hours.

Article 18.06

a) In lieu of overtime pay, Employees may be provided with compensating time off at the applicable overtime rate. Compensating time off may be accumulated up to a maximum thirty-five (35) hours per school year.

b) A record of the accumulated time must be kept by the Employee and approved in writing by the immediate supervisor. Such compensating time shall be mutually scheduled between the immediate supervisor and the Employee. There shall be no carry-over of such accumulation from year to year. However if the immediate supervisor fails to schedule any portion of the compensating time off by the end of the school year, the Employee shall be paid the balance in money.

c) When overtime is approved the Employee and the supervisor shall establish, prior to the overtime being worked, whether compensation will be paid in the form of money or compensating time off. d) Compensating time off shall be taken in no less than fifteen (15) continuous minutes at a time unless agreed upon by the employee.

Article 18.07

Principals shall have the flexibility to assign hours of work in a predictable and scheduled manner in order to best meet the needs of students, the operational needs of the school and the transparency for Employees’ working conditions.