Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One other aspect of this that I understand is a barrier or has come up, and this may be a Collective Agreement area and, if so, maybe you can tell me, but where an indeterminate position may be held by a teacher, an individual, yet they may apply for leave, they may be out of the territory or at least not working in that indeterminate position for some time. I understand that this may continue for years, which becomes a barrier for that school authority to hire a full-time person. If they have somebody booked on an indeterminate PY but that person is on leave, and the leave may be an allowed and justified leave, it prohibits the board from replacing that person on a permanent basis. One condition we have, Mr. Chairman, as I understand it, is graduate teachers do get hired; we do put them to work here, but only on a term basis. They do not enjoy the stability of being able to get hired full time because a number of positions are in reserve for other teachers who aren't necessarily on the job. Sorry for that kind of involved explanation here. Mr. Chairman, could the Minister advise whether or not our school authorities have ever encountered this as any kind of a problem? Thank you.
Bill Braden on Committee Motion 50-15(5): Implementation Of The Third-party Accountability Framework, Carried
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