To Information. 19.1 School Boards and the Ministry of Education will continue to respond to requests for information and current data, pertinent to the education sector, in a timely manner. 19.2 By August 15 of each school year, every school board shall collect and provide to the Ministry of Education, OECTA and OCSTA electronic data regarding sick leave usage and other paid leave usage for all teachers during the prior school year. This shall be provided in aggregate by panel. 19.3 Boards authorize the Ministry of Education to provide all the financial and non- financial information collected through the Education Financial Information System (EFIS) to OECTA and OCSTA. 20.1 The purpose of this article is to outline the parties’ intent to facilitate the timely and effective resolution of matters arising from a difference in the interpretation, application or administration of a central term of the collective agreement. OCSTA and/or the Association may seek a decision through final and binding arbitration to resolve any difference arising from the interpretation, application or administration of any central term of the collective agreement, using the following process: 20.1.1 OCSTA and the Association shall agree on a list of three (3) arbitrators who agree to participate and who are able to provide the parties with a list of available dates that can be booked in advance for the purposes of this process. Should one or more arbitrator(s) become unavailable the parties shall agree to a replacement(s) in order to maintain a complement of three (3) arbitrators. The initial selection and the replacement of arbitrators shall occur within twenty (20) days of any vacancy on the list. 20.1.2 The parties shall agree on four (4) days per arbitrator for each of the three school years September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2022. 20.1.3 The list of arbitrators shall be arranged alphabetically and arbitrators shall be appointed to a dispute, in alphabetical order, commencing with the first name on the list. If the arbitrator approached is unavailable, the next arbitrator in sequence on the list shall be approached until there is an arbitrator available. Disputes shall be assigned to arbitrators in the chronological order in which notifications are issued. In the event that such notifications are issued on the same date, the disputes shall be assigned in accordance with a random method of selection agreed to by the parties. 20.1.4 Within 30 working days of becoming aware of a matter giving rise to a dispute, a party shall provide notice of the dispute and refer it to the following informal process: 20.1.4.1 A Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC), which shall be composed of two
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