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The 2005 Membership Fee of $104 will be deducted automatically from the January 21, 2005 pay cheque of TBU secondary teachers.

Any TBU member who is on leave (for example on pregnancy, parental or unpaid leave) and is therefore not receiving a salary, and all Occasional Teachers and Continuing Education Teachers as well as any PSSP or Continuing Education Instructors who are members of the College of Teachers must pay the fee on their own directly to the College of Teachers. The easiest way to do so is online at the OCT website: click on “Membership Fee payment Online”.

Members for whom the OCT has not received the fee by the end of January will be invoiced by the OCT directly after February 15 and the fee must be paid by April 15 at the very latest. Members who have not paid their fees by then will be "suspended for non-payment of fees" and it will cost the $104 plus an $80 reinstatement fee (and possibly the resubmission of documentation) to return to "good standing".

In addition, the school board is informed and because one must be in good standing in order to be employed, teachers suspended by the OCT also run the risk of being suspended by the board (in other words, will not be allowed to work nor be paid for that time period) until they are once again “in good standing” with the OCT. CEI members whose OCT membership is suspended will be able to work but may be paid the non-OCT rate until they are once again in good standing.

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