Government will consult with the NSTU on several important items including extracurricular activities, professional development, workforce recruitment and retention strategies, and targeted strategies for rural education, French language education, and the educational needs of new immigrants, students living in poverty and children in care. Discussions in these areas will begin before the end of this school year.
Government will consult with the NSTU on how to give teachers more flexibility to teach in different regions, while protecting their seniority without bumping other teachers out of their positions.
This is one of the areas that government will work with the NSTU on. Government will consult with the NSTU on recruitment and retention strategies, and how to give teachers more flexibility to teach in different regions, while protecting their seniority without bumping other teachers out of their positions.
No. There will be no impact to teachers’ benefit and pension coverage.
Seniority lists are governed by regional collective agreements with each board being a separate employer. That will continue under the new structure with regional offices. Government will work with the NSTU on how to give teachers more flexibility to teach in different regions, while protecting their seniority without bumping other teachers out of their positions.
Teachers with recall status will continue to have that status within their region.
