Remuneration

REMUNERATION FOR RESOURCE PERSONNEL
When issuing an invitation to any individual, asking him/her to perform a task for a Professional Day, the Committee shall be prepared to make some recompense, unless the service is considered a function of the resource person's job role.

Whether it is a modest gift, the price of a meal (if it is a dinner speaker), an honorarium, and/or expenses depends upon a number of factors. These include the task the person is asked to perform (chair a session, serve on a panel, conduct a full workshop), the duration of the session, the amount of preparation necessary, materials used, distance and mode of travel to come to the site, meals or other expenses incurred by the individual on the Committee's behalf.

Resource persons invited from other institutions or organizations will vary in their expectations regarding remuneration. The standard honorarium which the Committee pays is $50.00 for 1/2 day's workshop and $100.00 for a full day. Other estimated expenses for speakers shall be consistent with the Expense Sheet in Appendix F.

There are several groups who, as a rule, would not expect remuneration: all Department of Education Co-ordinators and Consultants; District 18 staff Administrators, Supervisors, Pupil Personnel Services, teaching staff; and NBTA central office staff accept planning for and/or participating in professional activities as part of their job role. Most public relations officers and government agency representatives who carry out functions as resource persons when called upon as part of that job are paid to do so by their employer (i.e. R.C.M.P., Manpower and Immigration, Secretary of State Department, Maritime Blue Cross/Blue Shield).

The Committee shall not pay for Faculty of Education university of staff members because of existing Teacher Education Agreements, and shall establish funding prior to acceptance to do workshops with all other persons.