The agreements
The Pembina Trails agreement was settled through arbitration.
Highlights
- Maternity, adoptive and parental leave top-up
- Two personal leave days, with carryover of one day to the following school year
- Voluntary participation in extra-curricular activities (Extra-Curricular Recognition, or ECR)
- The ability to apply ECR days and personal days to weekends, long weekends and holidays, with some exceptions
- Employee-paid extended health and dental plans
- Indigenous teachers are entitled to up to three days of leave for ceremonial, cultural or spiritual observance
- Up to 130 days of accumulated sick leave
- Short-term disability plan
- A jointly administered Professional Development Fund (the 2024–2025 Board instalment was $530,415)
- A process to protect teachers in case of complaint
- An uninterrupted lunch period of fifty-five consecutive minutes
- Preparation time of at least 210 minutes per cycle from September 2025. Pembina Trails prep time is status quo — the 2023–2024 prep time stays as a minimum throughout this Provincial Collective Agreement.
Salary increases, with retroactive pay
| School year | Increase |
|---|---|
| 2022–2023 | 2.5% |
| 2023–2024 | 2.75% |
| 2024–2025 | 3.0% |
| 2025–2026 | 3.0%, plus a 1% retention adjustment on 1 February 2026 |
Retroactive pay was to be provided by December 2024.
Questions about the agreement?
Email your Collective Bargaining Chair at vicepresident-cb@ptta.mbteach.org.