MONTREAL, May 25, 2024
/CNW/ - The Fédération des professionnelles et professionnels de
l'éducation du Québec (FPPE-CSQ), affiliated with the Centrale des
syndicats du Québec (CSQ), yesterday reached an agreement with the
Treasury Board on the final texts of the new 2023-2028 employment
contract for professionals in the Francophone school service
centres and Anglophone school boards it represents.
The parties hope to formally sign the collective agreement
within the next two weeks.
Once concluded, the negotiations leading to this agreement will
have lasted more than one year.
"The advances achieved through these negotiations, in particular
the salary improvements, were made possible by a historic
mobilization of professionals throughout Quebec in solidarity with the Front commun,"
said Jacques Landry, President of
the FPPE-CSQ.
Upcoming payments
The intersectoral agreements negotiated by the CSQ and the Front
commun will give all Quebec
professionals salary increases of 17.4% over five years.
Professionals can expect to receive a salary scale adjustment
payment within 45 days of the signing of the agreement.
Salary increases retroactive to April 1, 2023, will
also be paid within 60 days of the signing.
Professionals who are no longer employed will have 120 days
to request retroactive salary increases from their employers, which
must make the payments within 60 days of the request.
Gains for the FPPE-CSQ
In addition to the salary increases, the new collective
agreements will improve the working conditions of professional
education staff. They include gains on vacations, insurance,
telework, working hour arrangements, payment of overtime, benefits
for supernumerary employees, a partial reimbursement of fees paid
to professional orders, an expansion and 2.5% salary increase for
members holding a master's degree, bonuses for psychoeducators
performing intern supervision and mentoring, as well as a salary
increase and bonus for psychologists.
Professionals can review the changes made to the collective
agreement on La Passerelle Négo
at https://www.fppe.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/LaPasserelleNego_FR_Fev2024.pdf.
Northern negotiations dragging
on
The FPPE-CSQ takes this opportunity to lament the fact that the
negotiations for Northern Quebec
teachers are also dragging on due to a lack of government
initiative.
"Cree and Inuit communities and schools have glaring needs. With
this in mind, the unreasonable delays in the Northern negotiations
must be denounced, as it is the students and staff who are paying
the price," concluded Landry.
About the FPPE-CSQ
The Fédération des professionnelles et professionnels de
l'éducation du Québec (FPPE-CSQ) represents 19 unions bringing
together 12,500 members spread across almost all school service
centers and school boards in Quebec, Francophone, Anglophone, Cree and
Kativik. Its members include different categories of staff in the
administrative sectors (engineers, analysts, Project Development
Office, etc.), educational sectors (Education Consultants,
librarians, etc.) and in direct services to students
(psychologists, psychoeducators, speech therapists or Audiologists,
guidance counselors, etc.).
SOURCE Fédération des professionnelles et professionnels de
l''Éducation du Québec (FPPE-CSQ)