Personnel

B.2.7 Employees Instructing with the Community Education Department

Approved/revised: January 3, 2007

  POLICY

NVIT believes that term or continuing employees should be able to access teaching opportunities offered by the Community Education Department, however, those teaching opportunities cannot overlap or conflict with existing employment terms.

  PROCEDURE

The following guidelines have been provided for employees who apply to teach courses with the Community Education Department.

Subject to Article 8.4 of the Collective Agreement, all hiring decisions shall be made in consultation between the Community Education Department, Human Resources, and the relevant senior manager.

Subject to Article 8.4 of the Collective Agreement, all teaching appointments within the Community Education Department will either be by casual employee or by contract.

Continuing Employees:

Continuing employees who are selected to teach courses for the Community Education Department at NVIT normally may only teach a maximum of twenty days per calendar year.

    1. Continuing employees who are selected to teach courses for the Community Education Department at NVIT must take vacation time during the time they are teaching for the CE Department unless the courses are delivered during weekends.
    2. Where NVIT, in an emergency situation, requests an employee to undertake a non-bargaining unit work overload, the employee is not required to take vacation or unassisted leave.  The employee will either be paid the casual employee rate, or will have their workload adjusted in the future.
     3. Teaching appointments with the Community Education Department can only occur between May 1 and August 15. An employee wishing exception to this must receive authorization from the President prior to signing an employment agreement.
    4. The instruction completed with the Community Education Department will be paid under an employment agreement through NVIT's payroll system, unless the instructor qualifies as a contractor as defined by Canada Revenue Agency. A contractor must have their own business number, WCB coverage and be responsible for invoicing and reporting financial earnings.  As per Article 8 of the Collective Agreement, neither casual instructors nor contractors are members of the NVIT Employees' Association.

Term Employees:

    1. Term employees on a 100% work load employment agreement with NVIT cannot teach courses for the NVIT Community Education Department within the time frame outlined by their agreement unless they elect to take time off without pay from their term agreement, and they receive prior approval from, the President or delegate.  Scheduling and workload will be considered for those employees who request permission to teach for the Community Education Department. Term employees on 100% workload may only teach a maximum of one course per term for the Community Education Department.
    2. Where NVIT, in an emergency situation, requests an employee to undertake a non-bargaining unit course, the employee is not required to take unassisted leave and will be paid the standard casual employee rate.
    3. Subject to #2 above, term employees who are selected to teach courses for the Community Education Department at NVIT must take time off without pay during the time they are teaching for the CE Department unless the courses are delivered during weekends.
    4. The instruction completed with the Community Education Department will be paid through an employment agreement as a casual employee unless the instructor qualifies as a contractor as defined by Canada Revenue Agency. A contractor must have their own business number, WCB coverage and be responsible for invoicing and reporting financial earnings. As per Article 8 of the Collective Agreement, neither casual instructors nor contractors are members of the NVIT Employees' Association.