Daily Casual Work

The Callout System prioritizes offers of work based on qualifications and availability.

It will first call teachers who are both qualified in the subject area, and willing to travel to the school.

If it exhausts 20 calls, it will move the job to the job board. If there are less than 20 qualified and willing OTs, it will next call qualified OTs who have not preferred the school, and finally unqualified and willing at that school. Once it has made 20 attempts in total to fill the job, the job becomes available on the job board. To help the callout system only call people who are free to work, be sure to update your calendar to block off days you are unavailable. This increases the efficiency of the system.

OTs who are not in a full-time LTO are eligible to fill their day with up to 4 classes of coverage. This is voluntary – speak with the VP in charge of ATE to identify your willingness to do this.

This is a Memorandum of Understanding signed with Board to extend to the end of the current collective agreement. The 4th period of work, to be eligible for payment, cannot be the on-call period of the teacher you are covering. Schools should not be automatically filling in the 4th period without pay, citing “no on-call schedule”.

Your pay cheque, available from the OCDSB website (Employee Portal), will show the number of units (days) worked and the daily rate. The rate expressed will be BEFORE the Board adds an equivalent payment for holidays and vacation pay. The total pay rate for a casual day is $286.28. OTs are paid 2 weeks in arrears according to a posted schedule.

Your calendar is a critical part of keeping track of your assignments, as well as making the call out system efficient. Days you are unavailable (either due to an LTO or an appointment) you should mark as such in ATE.