This adjustment of teacher-specific remuneration will complement the salary requirements that are imposed at the cross-sector level and apply to all public sector employees. In the context of a lack of staff, an urgent need to revalue the teaching profession and a significant gap with other Canadian provinces, the ESF and QPAT are calling for an increase in teachers` salaries. Primary teachers also want their professional skills to be used more effectively in their teaching mission, including by eliminating supervision, with the exception of the arrival and departure of pupils. The decree was announced Wednesday in the Official Gazette of Quebec, which states that collective agreements can be amended to „allow the employer to assign different tasks and schedules to employees so that they can meet the required needs.“ From the 141st working day 2019-2020, the application of an 8% pay scale for all teachers would increase them to the Canadian average. Ethier says he spoke with Quebec Deputy Education Minister Eric Blackburn to clarify the situation after it was inundated with calls from worried teachers. MONTREAL — Teachers across Quebec say they are concerned after receiving communications in which their tasks, schedules and jobs could be changed at any time, because their collective agreements are no longer considered binding to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. On the morning of Thursday, March 19, 2020, the Canadian press was riddled with news that the Quebec government had suspended collective agreements in the public education sector. In its online edition, CTV Montreal has led the story COVID-19: Teachers of Quebec city in shock after the government suspends collective agreements. As has been reported in history, the president of the Centrale des Syndicates du Québec (CSQ) said that they were told that all their collective agreements will no longer apply when certain provisions are in place, such as emergency measures. In the context of the lack of staff and the abandonment of the profession, the ESF and the QPAT are calling for improvements in the conditions of professional integration for teachers and teachers, who represent about 42% of teachers: as requested and published in the Official Gazette[3], the government has made it clear that it does not suspend collective agreements, but that it actually changes „collective and other agreements“. between headteachers, on the one hand, and all trade unions on the other.“ Three specific aspects of these agreements have been modified ad hoc: (1) allocation and classification of staff; (2) work planning; and (3) „remuneration in addition to the remuneration or remuneration of normal working time.“ As important as these three aspects of collective agreements are, they do not exhaust collective agreements and therefore cannot, quite rightly, amount to a suspension of collective agreements in the public education sector. It is perhaps also interesting to note that the amendments were adopted specifically for public sector workers in the education sector and not for all public sector employees. „We understand that someone who receives an email and is told that their collective agreement no longer applies is panicked,“ Sonia Ethier, president of the Quebec Centrale des Syndicates (CSQ), told The Canadian Press on Wednesday.
„They have been told that all collective agreements will no longer apply if certain provisions, such as Z.B. Travis Fast and Martin Dumas, „COVID-19 and Public Education Collective Agreements in Quebec“ Canadian Law of Work Forum (March 20, 2020): lawofwork.ca/covid-19-and-public-education-collective-agreements-in-quebec/ This Canadian Press report was first published on March 19, 2020.