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PROCEDURE PR.563.HR
TITLE: INCLEMENT WEATHER - STAFF DUTY TO REPORT
Date issued: February 1999
Last revised:
Authorization: Senior Staff: 16 December 1998
1.0 OBJECTIVE
To establish a procedure for schools and administration sites concerning staff duty to report in
the event of inclement weather.
2.0 RESPONSIBILITY
Director of Education, principals, managers and supervisors
3.0 PROCEDURES
3.1 When schools are closed under the authority of the Director of Education, staff is not
expected to report for duty unless specific arrangements are made for special purposes.
Pay for such days or part-days when schools are officially closed will be automatic.
3.2 Where it is necessary for schools to dismiss students early because of inclement or
adverse road conditions, principals may allow staff to begin their journeys home before
dismissal time, bearing in mind the appropriate supervision of students and the distance
each staff member has to travel.
3.3 When snow, sleet, ice storms, extreme temperatures or other inclement weather prevail
but schools remain open, staff is expected to make every reasonable effort to report for
duty. The responsibility for determining reasonable effort rests with the principal,
manager or supervisor, and will take into consideration conditions at the staff member's
place of residence, as well as prevailing overall weather conditions. No deduction of
pay will be made where a staff member has made every reasonable effort to report fo r
duty but has been unable to do so.
3.4 Possible lateness in reporting or inability to report at all because of inclement weather
will be reported to the principal, manager or supervisor by the staff member concerned
as soon as possible. When a staff member reports late due to inclement weather, there
will be no deduction in pay.
3.5 The principal, manager or supervisor will advise the appropriate supervisory officer (with
a copy to the Human Resources Department), by memorandum, of the names of all
staff who were absent on the inclement weather days.
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4.0 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS
The Education Act, Section 18
Board Policy P.058.HR: Health and Safety
Board Policy P.009.TRA: School Bus Cancellations Due To Inclement Weather
Board Procedure PR.504.TRA: School Bus Cancellations Due To Inclement Weather