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9. Support Staff Professional Development

Mandatory Professional Development

Activities such as First Aid, CPR, WHMIS and Injury Prevention are not to be professional development days for the purpose of calculating an Educational Assistant's work year under Article 10.06(a)(i). Attendance at these Division in-services are not included in the two or three days allocated during the work year. If the workshop is scheduled for more hours than you regular assignment, you will be paid the additional hours. Please notify the secretary of the additional hours that you have worked.

Non Mandatory Professional Development

If the school is closed and an Educational Assistant is scheduled to work and does not attend, due to illness, they will be paid for their regular assigned hours of work. This will be one of their two/three Professional Development days.

If the school is open and an Educational Assistant is scheduled to attend a Professional Day and does not attend, due to illness, they will be paid out of their sick leave.

When attending a Professional Development, Administration or In-Service day you will be paid your regular assigned hours for the day. If you are scheduled to attend for only one half a day you will be paid half of your assigned hours.