Both the FAE and the FSE salute the work of the President of the Treasury Board in this matter. (archives)
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Summer pay and RQAPQuebec Parental Insurance Plan
days. So each week, they are paid a little less, to have a pay that comes in during the eight weeks of summer”,”text”:”It’s that the teachers are paid for 200 days. So each week, they are paid a little less, to have a paycheck that comes in during the eight weeks of summer”}}”>It’s that the teachers are paid for 200 days. So each week, they are paid a little less, to have a pay that comes in during the eight weeks of summer
summarizes Josée Scalabrini.
During maternity leave, teachers are entitled to payments from the Québec Parental Insurance Plan (QPIP). These are therefore the summer pay and RQAPQuebec Parental Insurance Plan who were in conflict.
The workers lost hours for which they had worked
points out Sylvain Mallette of the FAEAutonomous Federation of Education.
The current collective agreement allows the deferral of payments for four weeks of summer vacation, out of a total of eight. So for those who are on maternity leave for the whole summer, it’s a good four weeks of work that they don’t get, but that the other workers get.
adds Josée Scalabrini.
Excerpt from the article in question in the two collective agreements
[…] When a teacher on maternity leave receives, for one or more weeks included in her annual vacation, benefits from the RQAPQuebec Parental Insurance Plan or employment insurance, an amount equal to what she has thus received is deducted (if this has not already been done), in equal parts, from the salary payments scheduled for the period of the deferred vacation.
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About $900 per week
A teacher from Wickham in Centre-du-Québec found herself in this situation last year, during maternity leave for her second child.
first weeks of payment RQAP to which we add the payment from the employer”,”text”:”I gave birth in the summer, so it was during the first 21 weeks of QPIP payment to which we add the payment from the employer”}}”>I gave birth in the summer, so it was during the first 21 weeks of payment of the RQAPQuebec Parental Insurance Plan to which is added the employer’s payment
says Cécile Vigneault.% of my salary.”,”text”:”I lost four weeks at 70% of my salary.”}}”>I lost four weeks at 70% of my salary.
According to his calculations, that represents nearly $900 per week, before taxes, which was not paid to him.
The agreement with the government does not provide feedback for teachers who have suffered this inequity. Cécile Vigneault is still happy for her colleagues.
It’s a big step forward. It is simply the fair return of things for the future. It’s money that belongs to you because you earned it
she says.
It should be mentioned that the situation could also have affected certain teachers and fathers. RAQP during the summer, so to postpone the paternity leave to another time”,”text”:”However, in their case, there is an option and that is not to benefit from the RAQP during the summer , therefore to postpone the paternity leave to another time”}}”>However, in their case, there is an option and that is not to benefit from the RAQPQuebec Parental Insurance Plan during the summer, therefore postponing the paternity leave to another timeexplains Sylvain Mallette of the FAEAutonomous Federation of Education.
In writing, the Treasury Board Secretariat specifies that these agreements follow up on a commitment made by the government during the last negotiations which aimed to resolve a problem specific to female teachers and the period for taking maternity leave
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The Secretariat declined to comment further. out of respect for the ongoing union process
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