Adoption Leave of Absence

13. Adoption Leave

Teachers shall be eligible for adoption leave without pay, subject to the following conditions:

(i) Teachers shall be entitled to adoption leave for up to 37 weeks.

(ii) When possible, a teacher will notify the Board of the teacher's adoption leave requirements three months in advance of the first day of the adoption leave. Written notification for such leave must be made not later than six weeks prior to the commencement of adoption leave unless the medical condition of the birth mother or child makes it impossible to comply or the date of the child's placement with the adoptive parent was not foreseeable.

(iii) A teacher returning from adoption leave shall be returned to the teaching position held at commencement of the leave unless the teacher has been transferred in accordance with School Board policy.

(iv) Upon return from leave, a teacher who held a position for which an administrative allowance was paid and for which the term of payment of the allowance has not yet been completed, the Board will, where possible, return the teacher to a position with an equivalent administrative designation or the teacher shall be paid an allowance equal to the allowance that the teacher had been receiving prior to the leave. This allowance will be paid for the balance of the term of the original administrative appointment or for three years, whichever period of time is less.



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