Common use of Professional and Education Leave Clause in Contracts

Professional and Education Leave. Nurses may be granted leave(s) of absence with or without pay to attend workshops, seminars, and short courses, which may be deemed beneficial to the Nurse’s professional development especially as it relates to their responsibilities. Selection shall be made in an equitable basis from Nurses who make application to attend. Such leave is granted at the discretion of the Employer. Professional leave without pay will be granted to Registered Nurses who are elected to the RNAO to attend regularly scheduled meetings. Nurses involved in the organizing, preparing and presenting of in-service programmes at the Branch, and outside the Branch, on behalf of the Employer, may be paid for some or all such hours involved, at their regular rate of pay as submitted by the Nurse. A Nurse shall be entitled to leave of absence from their regularly scheduled working hours for the purpose of writing exams arising out of the Quality Assurance Program required by the College of Nurses of Ontario. The Employer shall pay 2 hours at the Nurse’s straight time hourly rate to write the exam. A Nurse elected to the College of Nurses will suffer no loss of pay for time spent in attendance at regularly scheduled meetings of the College of Nurses, where the Nurse would otherwise be working for the Employer.

Professional and Education Leave. Nurses may be granted leave(s) of absence with or without pay to attend workshops, seminars, seminars and short courses, which may be deemed beneficial to the Nurse’s professional development especially as it relates to their responsibilities. Selection shall be made in an equitable basis from Nurses who make application to attend. Such leave is granted at the discretion of the Employer. Professional leave without pay will be granted to Registered Nurses who are elected to the RNAO to attend regularly scheduled meetings. Nurses involved in the organizing, preparing and presenting of in-service programmes at the Branch, and outside the Branch, on behalf of the Employer, may be paid for some or all such hours involved, at their regular rate of pay as submitted by the Nurse. A Nurse shall be entitled to leave of absence from their regularly scheduled working hours for the purpose of writing exams arising out of the Quality Assurance Program required by the College of Nurses of Ontario. The Employer shall pay 2 hours at the Nurse’s straight time hourly rate to write the exam. (The exam is now done at home – no need for travel.) A Nurse elected to the College of Nurses will suffer no loss of pay for time spent in attendance at regularly scheduled meetings of the College of Nurses, where the Nurse would otherwise be working for the Employer.. ONA Response – Agree