CROWN
EMPLOYEES (TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS AND TAFE AND RELATED EMPLOYEES) SALARIES AND
CONDITIONS AWARD
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
FULL BENCH
Application by Director General, Department of Education and
Training, New South Wales Technical and Further Education Commission and the
New South Wales Teachers Federation.
(Nos. IRC 5522 of
1999 and 5471 of 2000)
Before the Honourable Justice Walton, Vice-President
Honourable Justice Glynn
Honourable Mr Deputy President Harrison
Commissioner Bishop 16
November and 15 December 2000
CONSOLIDATED AWARD
This award is a consolidation of the Crown Employees
(Teachers in Schools and TAFE and Related Employees) Salaries and Conditions
Award published 30 March 2001 (323 I.G. 464) incorporating amendments.
GENERAL SECTION
1. Arrangement
GENERAL SECTION
Clause No. Subject Matter
1. Arrangement
2. Dictionary
Salaries and Allowances
3. Salaries
4. Allowances
5. Salary Progression and Maintenance
6. Teacher Quality
7. Salary Packaging
Work Related Matters
8. Initial Appointments
9. Teaching in More Than One Location
10. Deferred Salary Scheme
11. Compensation for Travel on Department or TAFE Business
Award Compliance and Related Matters
12. Dispute Resolution Procedures
13. No Industrial Action and No Further Claims
14. Anti-discrimination
15. Goods and Services Tax
16. Leave Reserved
17. Area, Incidence and Duration
Schedules for General Section
Schedule 1 - Common
Incremental Salary Scale
Schedule 2 - Allowances
Schedule 3 - Locality
Allowances
School Section
18. Assessment and Reporting and Quality of Educational
Outcomes
19. Procedures for Managing Teachers Who Are Experiencing
Difficulties With Their Teaching Performance
20. Teaching Hours for Years 11 and 12 in Schools
21. Allocation of Duties in High Schools
22. Teaching Outside Normal School Hours
23. Alternative Work Organisation
24. School Teachers Appointed to More than One School
25. Qualifications, Recruitment and Training
26. Calculation of Service
27. Temporary School Teachers
28. Casual School Teachers
29. Relief in PP6 or Teacher in Charge Grade One Positions
30. Training and Development
31. Multiskilling
32. Duties as Directed
33. School Certificate Tests Supervision
34. Reclassification of Executive Teachers
35. Other Part time Rates of Pay - Schools
36. Home School Liaison Officers and Aboriginal Student
Liaison Officers - Special Conditions
37. Teachers in Residential Agricultural High Schools -
Special Conditions
Schedules for School Section
Schedule 4 - Salaries -
Teachers In Charge of Environmental Education Centres and Hospital Schools
Schedule 5 - Salaries -
Promotion Classifications in the Education Teaching Service
Schedule 6 - Rates of Pay -
Casual School Teachers
Schedule 7 - Other Part time
Rates of Pay - Schools
Schedule 8 - Excess Travel
and Compensation for Travel on Official Business - School Teachers
Schedule 9 - Special
Conditions Covering Home School Liaison Officers and Aboriginal Student Liaison
Officers
Schedule 10 - Special
Conditions Covering Teachers at Residential Agricultural High Schools
TAFE SECTION
38. Contribution to Institute Output Requirements
39. Attendance - Teachers and Counsellors
40. Duties of Teachers
41. Allocation of Duties
42. Duties Related to Teaching
43. Administrative Duties
44. Averaging
45. Accumulating Program
46. Professional Development - TAFE Teachers
47. TAFE Year
48. Additional One Week
49. Evening Work - Counsellors
50. Time Credit
51. Excess Teaching Hours
52. Sunday Work/Night Work
53. Qualifications for Appointment
54. Working Conditions - Education Officers and Related
Officers in TAFE
55. Professional Development - Education Officers, Other
Related Officers and Counsellors
56. Leave for TAFE Teachers and Related Employees
57. Calculation of Service
58. Training and Development
59. Multi-skilling
60. Working Conditions - Part time Casual Teachers,
Coordinators and Counsellors in TAFE
61. Contract Teachers (OTEN)
62. Provision for Positions which Are Hard To Fill
63. Industrial Rights
64. Quality Improvement Program
65. Pilot Schemes
66. Principles of Restructuring
Schedules for TAFE Section
Schedule 11 - Salary Scales -
Promotion Classifications in TAFE
Schedule 12 - Excess Travel
and Compensation for Travel on Official Business - TAFE Teachers
Schedule 13 - Strategies for
Maximising Annual Student Contact Hours in TAFE
Schedule 14 - Rates of Pay -
Part time Casual Teachers, Coordinators and Counsellors in TAFE and Contract
Teachers (OTEN)
2. Dictionary
General Section -
2.1 "Degree"
means a course of study in a higher education institution leading to a degree
as described in the Australian Qualifications Framework as at 1 January 1995.
2.2 "Department"
means the Department of Education and Training.
2.3 "Diploma"
means a course of study in a higher education institution leading to a diploma
as described in the Australian Qualifications Framework as at 1 January 1995.
2.4 "Director-General"
means the Director-General of Education and Training.
2.5 "Employee"
means a person employed in a classification covered by this award by the
Director-General and Managing Director or delegate under the provisions of the
Teaching Services Act or the TAFE Commission Act on a permanent, temporary,
casual, part time casual or contract basis.
2.6 "Equivalent"
when referring to qualifications means those qualifications deemed by the
Director-General to be equivalent to specified qualifications.
2.7 "Federation"
means the New South Wales Teachers Federation.
2.8 "General
Secretary" means the General Secretary of the Federation.
2.9 "Graduate"
means a person who has obtained a degree from a higher education institution or
possesses qualifications determined by the Director-General to be equivalent to
such a degree.
2.10 "Graduate
Diploma" means a course of study in a higher education institution leading
to a graduate diploma as described in the Australian Qualifications Framework
as at 1 January 1995.
2.11 "Higher
Education Institution" means a university or other tertiary institution
recognised by the Director-General which offers degrees, diplomas or teacher
education courses.
2.12 "Industrial
Relations Commission" means the Industrial Relations Commission of New
South Wales, established by the Industrial
Relations Act 1996.
2.13 "Managing
Director" means the Managing Director of TAFE.
2.14 "Officer"
means and includes all persons permanently employed in the Education Teaching
Service under the provisions of the Teaching
Services Act or in TAFE under the provisions of the TAFE Commission Act and
who, on the date of commencement of the award, were occupying one of the
positions covered by the award or who, after that date, are appointed to one of
these positions.
2.15 "Parties"
means the Department, TAFE and the Federation.
2.16 "Service"
means continuous service, unless otherwise specified in the award.
2.17 "TAFE"
means the New South Wales Technical and Further Education Commission.
2.18 "TAFE
Commission Act" means the TAFE
Commission Act 1990.
2.19 "Teaching
Services Act" means the Teaching
Services Act 1980.
2.20 "Temporary
Employee" means and includes all persons employed on a temporary basis,
other than on a casual or part time casual basis or as a contract teacher
(OTEN), under the Teaching Services Act or TAFE Commission Act.
2.21 "Trained
Teacher" means a school or TAFE teacher who has satisfactorily completed a
prescribed course of training at a higher education institution, or such other
course or courses which the Director-General or Managing Director determines as
satisfying requirements for classification as a teacher.
School Section -
2.22 "Aboriginal
Student Liaison Officer" means a person or school teacher who has been
temporarily appointed to the position of Aboriginal student liaison officer.
2.23 "Alternate
Mode Course" means a course of teacher training other than a course
completed by full time study with a higher education institution.
2.24 "Alternate
Period" means a period taught by a school teacher being a period other
than a period which the school teacher is normally timetabled to teach and
where the need for the period to be taught arises from the absence from duty of
another school teacher.
2.25 "Assistant
Principal" means a school teacher who is appointed as such to assist a
principal of a school in the management of the school.
2.26 "Casual
School Teacher" means a school teacher engaged on an hourly or daily rate
of pay in the Education Teaching Service.
2.27 "Conditionally
Trained Teacher (C)" means a school teacher whose approval to teach is
conditional upon completion of additional educational requirements prescribed
by the Director-General.
2.28 "Core
Hours" means the normal daily hours of operation of a school during which
classes are conducted and in a high or central school includes a daily core timetable
of eight periods, or the time equivalent.
2.29 "Deputy
Principal" means a school teacher appointed as such who is the deputy to
the principal in a school and who acts as substitute in the absence of the
principal, and is required to assist generally in the management of the school
and, as required, in the special duties of the principal.
2.30 "Distance
Education Centre" means a school established to provide full time or part
time programs of secondary or primary courses to students who cannot normally
attend on a daily basis. Provided that
distance education centres can be either stand alone schools or centres
attached and integrated into an existing school.
2.31 "District"
means a grouping of schools designated as a district for administrative and
education purposes specified by the Director-General.
2.32 "District
Guidance Officer'' means an officer appointed as such in a school district(s)
or a group of schools who is responsible to the Director-General or nominee for
the guidance service within the district(s) or group of schools.
2.33 "Education
Officer (Schools)" means an officer appointed as such, provided that for
appointment the officer shall have an appropriate degree from a higher
education institution or other qualifications and experience which the
Director-General determines as satisfying requirements.
2.34 "Environmental
Education Centre" means a teaching and learning facility operated by the
Department which students attend to participate in educational programs
relevant to all primary and secondary key learning areas and/or to receive
specific instruction in field work, and which provides support to schools in
implementing environmental education.
2.35 "Executive
Teacher" means a school teacher who is appointed as such to assist the
principal, deputy principal or assistant principal in the administration of a
primary school, central school, school department or distance education centre.
2.36 "Five Year
Trained Teacher (5YT)" means a school teacher who has obtained a degree and
teaching qualifications from a higher education institution which together
require a minimum of five years full time study. Any period of training in excess of that normally required to
complete such a course shall not be deemed to be a training period for the
purposes of any other definition.
2.37 "Four Year
Trained Teacher (4YT)" means a school teacher who has:
2.37.1 obtained a
degree from a higher education institution and has, in addition, satisfactorily
completed a teacher education qualification of at least one year's duration at
a higher education institution; or
2.37.2 completed a four
year teacher education degree from a higher education institution; or
2.37.3 completed such
other course(s) which the Director-General determines as satisfying
requirements for classification as a school teacher.
2.38 "Head
Teacher in Schools" means a school teacher who is appointed as such in a
high school, distance education centre or central school, and is responsible to
the principal for the program of work in a designated subject or learning area
and the coordination of the work of classes in that area. The head teacher also
exercises supervision over and gives advice and direction, when necessary, to
other school teachers in the subject or learning area in addition to their
teaching duties. Provided that head
teachers may be appointed with specific designated responsibilities, including:
2.38.1 Head teacher
(female students) advises female school students and promotes their interests
in a high school or a secondary department of a central school where the
enrolment of female school students in the school or department exceeds 500.
2.38.2 Head teacher
(welfare) assists the principal and or deputy principal in the area of student
welfare. Head teacher (welfare)
includes head teacher (welfare) - residential agricultural high schools.
2.38.3 Head teacher
(administration) is responsible for assigned duties associated with the general
administration of the school.
2.39 "Home
School Liaison Officer" means a person or school teacher who has been
temporarily appointed to the position of home school liaison officer.
2.40 "In Lieu
of Duties" means duties undertaken by a school teacher for a school
teacher absent from the classroom on duty elsewhere or performing other duties
when that school teacher is relieved of part of their regular face to face
teaching load through variations in school organisation.
2.41 "Period"
means, in a high or central school, a 40 minute teaching period.
2.42 "Principal"
means a school teacher appointed as such to be responsible for the management,
organisation, administration, supervision and efficiency of a school and all
departments in a school. A principal
does not include a teacher in charge of a school.
2.43 "Residential
Agricultural High School" means a school classified as such by the
Director-General.
2.44 "School"
means a Department school or other centre where instruction is provided by the
Department, excluding an institute and including any place designated as part
of, or as an annex to, such school.
2.45 "School
Counsellor" means a school teacher with an equivalent of four years
training and a major in psychology who has responsibility for providing schools
with advice and support in matters relating to student academic and personal
development, welfare and discipline and provides psychological and other
testing as required.
2.46 "School
Teacher" means a person or officer employed permanently or temporarily in
a full time or part time school teaching position under the provisions of the Teaching Services Act 1980 and appointed
to a school. Unless otherwise specified
in the award, a school teacher shall include a school teacher in training.
2.47 "Schools
for Specific Purposes" (SSPs) for the purpose of the award are schools
which are classified as such by the Director-General and are established under
the Education Act 1990 to provide
education for students with disabilities as listed in subclause 2.55.
2.48 "Senior
Assistant" means a two or three year trained school teacher who has been
classified as a senior assistant on or before 1 January 1973 and who is
employed in a school providing secondary education.
2.49 "Supervisor
of Female Students" means a female school teacher appointed as such to
advise female school students and to promote their interests in a high school
or secondary department of a central school where the school or department does
not qualify for the appointment of a head teacher (female students).
2.50 "Teacher
in Charge Environmental Education Centre" means a teacher in charge of an
environmental education centre.
2.51 "Teacher
in Charge Hospital School" means a school teacher in charge of a hospital
school at which a principal has not been appointed.
2.52 "Teacher
in Charge (Schools)" means a school teacher in charge of a centre not
designated as a school determined by the Director-General where a principal is
not appointed.
2.53 "Teacher
in Charge of Residential Supervision of Agricultural High Schools" means a
school teacher selected by the principal to be responsible for the supervision
and administration of additional duties relating to school student residence in
residential agricultural high schools.
2.54 "Teacher
in Training (Schools)" means a graduate recruited to train as a school
teacher through an alternate mode course.
2.55 "Teachers
of Students with Disabilities" means school teachers appointed to schools
for specific purposes, or support classes in primary or high schools
established to provide education for students with disabilities and including
appointments as itinerant support school teacher, as follows:
2.55.1 students
with: mild intellectual disabilities
(IM); moderate intellectual disabilities (IO); severe intellectual disabilities
(IS); behaviour disorders (BD); emotional disabilities (ED); hearing
impairments (H); language disabilities (L); physical disabilities (P); severe
reading (R), vision impairments (V); and
2.55.2 students
in: an early childhood intervention
program (EC); hospital schools, Royal Far West School, Stewart House (W); and
community care programs (CT).
2.56 "Temporary
School Teacher" means a person employed in one engagement full time for
four weeks or more or in one engagement for one to four days per week for two
terms or more.
2.57 "Two Year
Trained Teacher (2YT) or Three Year Trained Teacher (3YT)" means a school
teacher who has satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of teacher
education of two or three years duration respectively at a higher education
institution, or such other course or courses which the Director-General
determines as satisfying requirements for classification as a school teacher.
2.58 "Year
Adviser" means a school teacher appointed to assist Years 7-12 students in
a high school which has an enrolment of 700 or more students.
2.59 "Year 12
Relieving Period" means a relieving period required to be undertaken by a
school teacher when that school teacher has been relieved of their timetabled
Year 12 face to face teaching duties after Year 12 students leave school to sit
for the Higher School Certificate Examination in Term 4 of each year.
TAFE Section -
2.60 "Approved
Program" means a teaching program taught across the Standard Educational
and or TAFE year. A teaching program
consists of a standard or an averaging or an accumulating program.
2.61 "BMET"
means the training course known as the Basic Methods of External Teaching,
which is the three unit distance mode course that sensitises the contract
teacher to the situation of the student working in open/distance mode.
2.62 "College/campus/institute"
means a TAFE establishment or other centre where instruction is provided by
TAFE and includes any place designated as part of, or as an annexe to, such
college/campus/institute.
2.63 "Contract
Teacher" means a teacher employed to mark and provide feedback on work
submitted by students enrolled in OTEN and paid per unit of work marked.
2.64 "Contract
Teaching Duties" means those duties contained in clause 61, Contract
Teachers (OTEN).
2.65 "Coordination"
in clause 60, Working Conditions - Part time Casual Teachers, Coordinators and
Counsellors in TAFE means educational coordination of programs, courses or
subjects or the provision of services by part time casual coordinators.
2.66 "Duties
Other Than Teaching" in clause 60, Working Conditions - Part time Casual
Teachers, Coordinators and Counsellors in TAFE means duties other than teaching
and coordination except as provided in subclause 60.10 of the said clause 60.
2.67 "Education
Officer (TAFE)" means an officer appointed as such who has an appropriate
degree from a higher education institution and appropriate vocational and/or
industrial experience.
2.68 "Excess
Teaching Hours" means the actual teaching hours in excess of a teacher’s
standard weekly teaching component or annual teaching component, as
appropriate, that a teacher is required by the Managing Director, or nominee,
to teach.
2.69 "Head
Teacher in TAFE" means all persons employed within this classification by
TAFE, including those referred to in subclause 3.17.
2.70 "Institute"
means any grouping of TAFE campuses or places where TAFE provides education,
training, administrative and other services from time to time as specified by
the Managing Director.
2.71 "Institute
Director" means all persons employed within this classification.
2.72 "Institute
Manager" means all persons permanently or temporarily employed within this
classification.
2.73 "OTEN"
means the Open Training and Education Network.
2.74 "Part time
Casual Coordinator" means a TAFE coordinator engaged by TAFE on an hourly
basis to coordinate special programs or other activities.
2.75 "Part time
Casual Counsellor" means a TAFE counsellor engaged by TAFE on an hourly
basis to provide counselling services to students.
2.76 "Part time
Casual Teacher" means a TAFE teacher engaged by TAFE to teach on an hourly
basis.
2.77 "Special
Programs" means those programs administered by TAFE which are designated
to promote access of special groups of students to TAFE’s courses.
2.78 "Standard
Educational Year" means that period of approximately 41 weeks falling
within a calendar year determined as such by the Managing Director.
2.79 "TAFE
Adult Literacy Officer" means a TAFE teacher employed as such who has been
designated by the Managing Director as an adult literacy officer.
2.80 "TAFE
Advanced Skills Counsellor" means a TAFE counsellor employed as such who
has been designated by the Managing Director as an advanced skills
counsellor.
2.81 "TAFE
Counsellor" means an officer or temporary employee employed by TAFE to
provide counselling services to students.
2.82 "TAFE
Special Program Coordinator" means an officer or temporary employee
appointed to a position as Institute media coordinator, consultant for the
disabled, Aboriginal coordinator, labour market program coordinator, outreach
coordinator or Institute multicultural education coordinator in Institutes.
2.83 "TAFE
Teacher" means an officer, or temporary employee employed under the TAFE Commission Act 1990 in a full time
teaching position.
2.84 "TAFE
Year" means a period of 50 weeks, excluding the two week period
surrounding Christmas/New Year, during which educational programs may be
conducted.
2.85 "Teacher
in Training (TAFE)" means a person employed as a TAFE teacher who is
undertaking a course of teacher education which has been prescribed by TAFE as
a compulsory course for that TAFE teacher to undertake.
SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES
3. Salaries
3.1 Salaries and
allowances under this award incorporate a four per cent increase as determined
by the Director-General and Managing Director from 3 April 2000 and as adjusted
by overall salary increases under this award of three per cent on and from 1
July 2001; four per cent on and from 1 July 2002; and five per cent on and from
1 January 2003.
3.2 From 1 January
2003 until 31 December 2003, TAFE teachers on the top of the common incremental
salary scale shall be paid a one off (superannuable) annual allowance of $650.
3.3 From 1 July
2003, an amount of $300 per annum shall be paid to school teachers on the top
of the common incremental salary scale.
From 1 January 2004 the top of the common incremental salary scale shall
include the amount of $300 per annum paid to both school and TAFE teachers.
3.4 Subject to the
provisions of the Teaching Services Act
1980 and the TAFE Commission Act 1990
and the regulations made thereunder and to satisfying the conditions prescribed
by this award, the salaries of the following officers and temporary employees
are set out in Schedules 1, 4, 5 and 11:
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Classification
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Schedule
|
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Teachers, education officers (schools and TAFE), home
school liaison officers, Aboriginal student liaison officers, counsellors
(schools and TAFE), adult literacy officers, assistant outreach coordinators.
|
Schedule 1
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Teachers in charge of environmental education centres and
hospital schools.
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Schedule 4
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Promotion classifications in schools and non school based
Education Teaching Service classifications salary scales.
|
Schedule 5
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Promotion classifications salary scales in TAFE.
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Schedule 11
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3.5 Except as
otherwise provided under the Department’s salary packaging scheme as set out in
clause 7, Salary Packaging, employees in Schedules 1, 4, 5 and 11 must be paid
at an annual salary level not less than that for the appropriate
classification.
3.6 Minimum
salaries on commencement of employment and maximum salaries under the common
incremental salary scale in Schedules 1, 4, 5 and 11 are set out in the table
below:
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Classification
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Minimum starting
salary
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Maximum salary
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|
|
(new step)
|
(new step)
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2YT school teachers
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Step 2
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Step 13
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3YT school teachers
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Step 3
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Step 13
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4YT school teachers
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Step 5
|
Step 13
|
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5YT school teachers
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Step 6
|
Step 13
|
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C2YT school teachers
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Step 2
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Step 6
|
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C3YT school teachers
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Step 3
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Step 6
|
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C4YT school teachers
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Step 5
|
Step 9
|
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C5YT school teachers
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Step 6
|
Step 9
|
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Education officers (schools) and
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|
|
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Aboriginal student liaison officers:
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|
|
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Non graduates
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Step 3
|
Step 13
|
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Graduates without teacher training
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Step 4
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Step 13
|
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Graduates with teacher training
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Step 5
|
Step 13
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Graduates with five years of training
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Step 6
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Step 13
|
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|
|
|
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Teachers in training (schools)
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Step 1
|
Step 1
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TAFE:
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Step 10*
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Step 13
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Teachers, counsellors, education
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|
|
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officers, adult literacy officers and
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|
|
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assistant outreach coordinators
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|
|
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Teachers in training (TAFE)
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Step 10*
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No more than one
step
|
|
|
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beyond the step
paid on
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|
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initial appointment
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* For starting
salaries above the minimum starting salary for a TAFE teacher refer to the TAFE
Policy - Teachers Commencing Salary.
3.7 Subject to
clause 5, Salary Progression and Maintenance, clause 26, Calculation of Service
and clause 57, Calculation of Service officers and temporary employees shall
progress without change to their incremental date by way of annual increments
to Step 13 on the common incremental salary scale as set out in Schedule 1.
3.8 Two and three
year trained school teachers may vary their incremental date and rate of
progression if they satisfy conditions contained in subclauses 3.9, 3.10, 3.11
and 3.12 of this clause.
3.9 A two year
trained school teacher who successfully completes studies which satisfy
requirements for a three year teacher education degree or diploma shall
progress to that step on the common incremental salary scale that the school
teacher could have achieved had the school teacher entered the Education
Teaching Service as a three year trained school teacher. Subject to clause 5, Salary Progression and
Maintenance, these teachers shall then progress along the common incremental salary
scale on the anniversary of the first day of the month following the successful
completion of the required study.
3.10 A two year
trained school teacher who successfully completes one year of full time
recognised degree level study or its equivalent shall be paid a double
increment with retention of normal incremental date. On reaching Step 9 of the common incremental salary scale, such a
teacher shall be deemed a three year trained school teacher and, subject to
clause 5, Salary Progression and Maintenance may progress by annual increments
to the top step of the common incremental salary scale.
3.11 A three year
trained school teacher who successfully completes one year of full time
recognised degree level study or its equivalent shall progress one increment on
the common incremental salary scale, effective from the first day of the month
following the successful completion of the required study.
3.12 A three year
trained school teacher who completes:
3.12.1 a graduate
diploma of at least one year of full time study or its part time equivalent; or
3.12.2 part of a degree
course or an equivalent course of study as determined by the Director-General
which results in the school teacher having attained an academic standard
equivalent to that of a four year trained school teacher,
shall progress to the step on the common incremental salary
scale that the school teacher could have achieved had the school teacher
entered the Education Teaching Service as a four year trained school
teacher. The salary progression shall
be effective from the first day of the month following the successful
completion of the required study.
3.13 The salary for
a teacher in charge of an environmental education centre or hospital school
grade 1, where less than two equivalent full time school teachers (including
the teacher in charge) are employed, shall be as set out in Schedule 4.
3.14 The salary for
a teacher in charge of an environmental education centre or hospital school
grade 2, where two or more equivalent full time school teachers (including the
teacher in charge) are employed, shall be as set out in Schedule 4.
3.15 In relation to
promotions classifications in schools, the following shall apply:
3.15.1 The position of
principal in a primary school shall be classified as follows:
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Classification of Principal
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Student Enrolments
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PP6
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1 - 25
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PP5
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26 - 159
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PP4
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160 - 300
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PP3
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301 - 450
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PP2
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451 - 700
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PP1
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701+
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3.15.2 Principals shall
only be appointed to hospital schools when specifically approved by the
Director-General.
3.15.3 Promotions
positions in schools for specific purposes shall receive the same salary as
applicable to similar positions in primary schools. Provided that, in determining the principal's salary, the school
student enrolment numbers shall be notionally determined by multiplying the
permanent full time teaching staff by 30.
Teaching staff for this purpose does not include employees, including
the principal, who are not required to undertake face to face teaching duties.
3.15.4 The salary
payable to principals of stand alone distance education centres shall be
equivalent to those paid to principals of primary schools. Provided that to determine the school
student enrolment numbers for the purpose of determining the classification of
a principal of a stand alone distance education centre, the actual number of
each category of school student shall be multiplied by the following factors to
determine notional school student numbers:
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Category of Student
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Factor
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Primary students
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2.14
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Secondary students - integrated
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2.46
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Secondary students - stand alone
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1.8
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Students at the Open High School, each unit of study per
student
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6 x 1.89
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Pre-school students
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1.38
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Students with disabilities
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2.7
|
3.15.5 The position of
principal in a central school shall be classified as follows:
|
Classification of Principal
|
Student Enrolments
|
|
PC4
|
26 - 159
|
|
PC3
|
160 - 300
|
|
PC2
|
301 - 450
|
|
PC1
|
451+
|
3.15.6 The position of
principal in a high school shall be classified as follows:
|
Classification of Principal
|
Student Enrolments
|
|
PH2
|
1 - 900
|
|
PH1
|
more than 900
|
3.16 Where the
actual enrolment used to determine the classification of a principal's position
in subclause
3.15 either increases or decreases so that the principal's
position would be reclassified, then the variation in the principal's
classification shall not be effected until the enrolment is such that it has
fallen within the new student enrolment band for a period of two consecutive
years.
3.17 TAFE teachers
who were classified as head teacher or senior head teacher as at 26 January
1997 continue to receive the salary increases at the appropriate step for these
classifications as set out in Schedule 11 for as long as they hold that
classification.
3.18 A TAFE
counsellor who is classified as an advanced skills counsellor shall retain the
head teacher band 1 salary while they continue to occupy that position.
4. Allowances
Schools -
4.1 Allowances in
terms of Schedule 2 shall be paid to the officers and or temporary employees in
the circumstances set out in subclauses 4.2 to 4.7 inclusive.
4.2 In lieu of
evening work, weekend work, travel time (where applicable) and all additional
duties and responsibilities involved to:
4.2.1 Home school
liaison officers and Aboriginal student liaison officers
4.2.2 Teachers in
charge (other than teacher in charge environmental education centre and
hospital school grades 1 and 2).
4.2.3 Year advisers
4.2.4 School teachers
required by the Director-General to have a Health Education Certificate
4.2.5 School teachers
other than the principal appointed to teach classes of students with
disabilities
4.2.6 Principals of
schools designated by the Director-General as schools for specific purposes
4.2.7 The Principal
of Stewart House
4.2.8 The Assistant
Principal of Stewart House
4.2.9 The deputy
principal (primary) or assistant principal of a central school
4.3 In
demonstration schools to:
4.3.1 principals -
• class PP1;
• class PP2;
4.3.2 other
promotions positions; and
4.3.3 trained
teachers.
4.4 In schools
where there is a requirement for demonstration lessons to be taken to:
4.4.1 school
teachers, for each demonstration lesson in excess of two in any term actually
given by them; and
4.4.2 school teachers
at any other school at which demonstration lessons are given in respect of
authorised demonstration lessons for:
• each half
hour lesson; or
• each 40
minute lesson involving secondary students.
4.4.3 provided that
payments made to school teachers under paragraphs 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 of this
subclause are subject to a maximum per annum payment; and for the purpose of
this subclause a demonstration lesson shall mean a lesson authorised by or on
behalf of a university given to student teachers, or a lesson given to another
group approved by the Director‑General.
4.5 In residential
agricultural high schools to:
4.5.1 school teachers
rostered for out of normal hours student supervision;
4.5.2 head teacher
(welfare) for residential supervision;
4.5.3 a school
teacher appointed to be in charge of residential supervision;
4.5.4 principals for
on call and special responsibilities; and
4.5.5 deputy
principals for on call and special responsibilities.
4.6 To supervisors
of female students:
4.6.1 Where the
average attendance of female students does not exceed 200;
4.6.2 Where the
average attendance of female students exceeds 200 but does not exceed 400;
4.6.3 Where the
average attendance of female students exceeds 400.
4.7 Education
officers (schools) who have been on top of their appropriate salary scale for a
period of twelve months and have demonstrated to the satisfaction of the
Director-General by the work performed and results achieved, the aptitude,
abilities and qualities warranting such payment shall receive an additional
payment as set out in Schedule 5 of Part B and, after a further twelve months,
an additional allowance of the same amount.
TAFE -
4.8 An additional
responsibility allowance in TAFE as set out in Schedule 2 is payable when:
4.8.1 a TAFE teacher
is required to accept additional responsibilities of a supervisory or
administrative character and the circumstances do not warrant the appointment
of a head teacher;
4.8.2 a TAFE
counsellor is nominated by the Managing Director in any institute or campus as
counsellor in charge.
4.9 An education
officer (TAFE) who:
4.9.1 has completed
12 months service at the salary prescribed on the maximum of the common
incremental salary scale; and
4.9.2 has
demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Managing Director by the work
performed, its quality and the results achieved, that the aptitude and
abilities of the officer warrant additional payment;
shall be paid an allowance, renewable each period of two
years, to ensure a remuneration equivalent to the salary level of head teacher
band 1 as set out in Schedule 11.
General -
4.10 Locality and
related allowances shall be paid as set out in Schedule 3.
5. Salary Progression
and Maintenance
5.1 An officer
shall be entitled to progress along or be maintained on the common incremental
salary scale or the salary level for a promotions position after each 12 months
of service subject to the officer demonstrating by means of an annual review,
continuing efficiency in teaching practice, satisfactory performance and
professional growth. Salary progression
may also occur in accordance with the provisions of subclauses 3.9, 3.10, 3.11
and 3.12 of clause 3, Salaries.
5.2 A temporary
school teacher shall be entitled to progress along or be maintained on the
common incremental salary scale subject to the provisions of subclause 27.4 of
clause 27, Temporary School Teachers.
5.3 A temporary
school teacher relieving in a PP6 or teacher in charge grade 1 position under
clause 29, Relief in PP6 or Teacher in Charge Grade One Positions, shall be
entitled to be maintained at that salary level subject to the provisions of
subclause 27.4 of clause 27, Temporary School Teachers.
5.4 Any TAFE
teacher who does not satisfy the teacher training requirements as determined by
the Managing Director shall not progress more than one step along the common
incremental salary scale above the salary step paid on initial
appointment.
6. Teacher Quality
6.1 To provide
feedback on an officer or temporary employee’s performance each officer or
temporary employee’s principal, institute director or nominee shall ensure that
the teacher’s performance is appraised by annual review. This appraisal will be implemented from the
beginning of term four, 2000 as follows:
6.1.1 The officer or
temporary employee’s principal, institute director or nominee shall be
responsible for annually reviewing the performance and development of the
officer or temporary employee undertaking their work.
6.1.2 For school
teachers, (including temporary teachers) this annual review shall be supported
by:
(i) conferences
between the school teacher and the
principal, or nominee;
(ii) observations
of educational programs;
(iii) review of
documentation such as lesson planning, lesson material and student work, plans,
evaluations and reports, as appropriate;
6.1.3 In implementing
the annual review the principal (or nominee) shall take into account the
following:
(i) the level of
experience of the school teacher (so that less experienced school teachers are
given greater attention); and
(ii) the
particular circumstances of the school.
6.1.4 The annual
review for school teachers shall be reported by way of a new teacher assessment
review schedule.
6.1.5 For TAFE
teachers the "Salary/Wages Progression Policy 94/H/0028" (amended and
renamed the "Annual Review Policy") shall apply to all TAFE
teachers. The process of review shall
require verification by the institute director or nominee.
6.1.6 The annual
review for TAFE teachers shall be reported by way of a new teacher assessment
review form.
6.1.7 The parties
agree to negotiate on variations, if any, to the policies and procedures in
place at the commencement date of the award relevant to annual review of
teacher performance.
7. Salary Packaging
7.1 Officers may
participate in the Department’s salary packaging scheme.
7.2 Salary
packaging does not apply to temporary school teachers.
Work Related Matters
8. Initial
Appointments
8.1 The initial
appointment of all officers shall be for a minimum probationary period of one
year. Confirmation of an officer’s
permanent appointment shall depend on completion of a satisfactory annual
review pursuant to clause 5, Salary Progression and Maintenance and in the case
of teachers, upon satisfactory completion of teacher training
requirements.
8.2 All initial
appointments shall be on the basis of merit.
9. Teaching in More
Than One Location
9.1 TAFE teachers
may be programmed to teach in more than one location including schools.
9.1.1 Where this
occurs there shall be full consultation with the affected teacher or teachers,
including sufficient notice and any specific needs of the affected teacher or
teachers shall be taken into account.
9.1.2 The travelling
compensation provisions at Schedule 12, Excess Travel and Compensation for
Travel on Official Business - TAFE Teachers and, as appropriate, time credit
provisions at clause 50, Time Credit shall apply to TAFE teachers programmed to
teach in more than one location.
9.2 School
teachers may be programmed to teach in more than one location including TAFE.
9.2.1 Where this
occurs there shall be full consultation with the affected teacher or teachers,
including sufficient notice and any specific needs of the affected teacher or
teachers shall be taken into account.
9.2.2 A school
teacher who is appointed to a school and is programmed to teach in more than
one school or at TAFE shall be entitled to the travel compensation provisions
at Part B of Schedule 8, Excess Travel and Compensation for Travel on Official
Business - School Teachers.
9.2.3 If, by
agreement, school teachers teach after 5.30 pm in a TAFE location they shall
receive the monetary equivalent of the time credit provided for TAFE teachers
at clause 50, Time Credit.
10. Deferred Salary
Scheme
10.1 Officers may
seek to join the Department’s deferred salary scheme.
10.2 Successful
applicants may defer twenty per cent of their salary for the first four years
and be paid the deferred salary in the fifth year.
10.3 The deferred
salary scheme does not apply to temporary school teachers.
11. Compensation for
Travel on Department or TAFE Business
11.1 Where an
employee is required and authorised to travel on Department or TAFE business in
the performance of their duties, compensation for travel shall be determined in
accordance with the provisions of Schedule 12 - Excess Travel and Compensation
for Travel on Official Business - TAFE Teachers or Schedule 8 - Excess Travel
and Compensation for Travel on Official Business - School Teachers.
AWARD COMPLIANCE AND RELATED MATTERS
12. Dispute
Resolution Procedures
12.1 Subject to the
provisions of the Industrial Relations
Act 1996, the following procedures shall apply:
12.1.1 Should any
dispute (including a question or difficulty) arise as to matters occurring in a
particular workplace, then the employee and or the Federation’s workplace
representative shall raise the matter with the appropriate principal or
supervisor as soon as practicable.
12.1.2 The principal or
supervisor shall discuss the matter with the employee and or the Federation’s
workplace representative within two working days with a view to resolving the
matter or by negotiating an agreed method and time frame for proceeding.
12.1.3 Should the above
procedure be unsuccessful in producing resolution of the dispute or should the
matter be of a nature which involves multiple workplaces, then the employee and
or the Federation may raise the matter with an appropriate officer of the
Department or TAFE at the district or institute level with a view to resolving
the dispute, or by negotiating an agreed method and time frame for proceeding.
12.1.4 Where the
procedures in paragraph 12.1.3 do not lead to resolution of the dispute, the
matter shall be referred to the General Manager of Personnel of the Department
and the General Secretary of the Federation.
They or their nominees shall discuss the dispute with a view to
resolving the matter or by negotiating an agreed method and time frame for
proceeding.
12.2 Should the
above procedures not lead to a resolution, then either party may make
application to the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales.
13. No Industrial
Action and No Further Claims
13.1 Except as
allowed by the Industrial Relations Act
1996, there shall be no industrial action and no further salaries or conditions
claims by the parties prior to 31 December 2003 in relation to matters
expressly contained in this award.
14.
Anti-Discrimination
14.1 It is the
intention of the parties to seek to achieve the object in section 3(f) of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 to prevent
and eliminate discrimination in the workplace.
This includes discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, marital
status, disability, homosexuality, transgender identity and age.
14.2 It follows that
in fulfilling their obligations under the dispute resolution procedures
prescribed under clause 12, the parties have obligations to take all reasonable
steps to ensure that the operation of the provisions of this award are not
directly or indirectly discriminatory in their effects. It shall be consistent with the fulfilment
of these obligations for the parties to make application to vary any provision
of the award which, by its terms or operation, has a direct or indirect
discriminatory effect.
14.3 Under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977, it is
unlawful to victimise an employee because the employee has made or may make or
has been involved in a complaint of unlawful discrimination or harassment.
14.4 Nothing in this
clause is to be taken to affect:
14.4.1 any conduct or
act which is specifically exempted from anti-discrimination legislation;
14.4.2 offering or
providing junior rates of pay to persons under 21 years of age;
14.4.3 any act or
practice of a body established to propagate religion which is exempted under
section 56(d) of the Anti-Discrimination
Act 1977; and
14.4.4 a party to this
award from pursuing matters of unlawful discrimination in any state or federal
jurisdiction.
14.5 This clause
does not create legal rights or obligations in addition to those imposed upon
the parties by the legislation referred to in this clause.
15. Goods and
Services Tax
15.1 The parties
shall monitor the overall impact of the Commonwealth Government’s goods and
services tax through the term of the award.
In the event that the Industrial Relations Commission makes a State
decision (as defined by section 49 of the Industrial
Relations Act 1996) having regard to the impact on wages of the goods and
services tax, the Federation reserves the right to make application to the
Industrial Relations Commission in relation to that decision.
16. Leave Reserved
16.1 The Federation
may apply, not before July 2003, to the Industrial Relations Commission for an
award variation to vary the conditions of part time casual TAFE teachers in
respect of the conditions of full time teachers. The parties agree that no financial consequences of any decision
in relation to the application shall take effect before January 2004.
17. Area, Incidence
and Duration
17.1 This award
covers all teachers and related employees of the Department and TAFE, the
classifications of which are set out in Schedules 1, 4-6, 10-11 and 14
inclusive. This award does not cover
chief education officers (schools), institute managers, and teachers employed
at the Saturday School of Community Languages, the National Art School, the
Adult Migrant English Service, TAFE Children’s Centres and Bradfield College.
17.2 This award
rescinds and replaces the:
17.2.1 Reviewed New
South Wales TAFE Commission Teachers and Other Educational Staff - Salaries and
Conditions Award 1996 published 28 July 2000 (317 I.G. 257);
17.2.2 Crown Employees
(Teachers and Related Employees) Salaries and Conditions Award published 13
December 1996 (295 I.G. 1424), and all variations thereof;
17.2.3 Crown Employees
(Teachers, Locality Allowances, &c.) Award published 30 November 1983 (231
I.G. 1651), and all variations thereof.
17.3 This award
commences on and from 1 January 2001 and shall remain in force until 31
December 2003.
SCHEDULES FOR GENERAL SECTION
Schedule 1 - Common Incremental Salary Scale
The following salary scale applies to: teachers; education
officers (schools and TAFE); home school liaison officers; Aboriginal student
liaison officers; counsellors (schools and TAFE); adult literacy officers, and
assistant outreach coordinators:
|
|
Per annum ($)
|
|
|
Current salary
steps
|
Current salary
(after increase by 4% by Determination on and from 3.4.2000)
|
Salary on and from
1.7.2001
|
Salary on and from
1.7.2002
|
Salary on and from
1.1.2003
|
New salary steps on
and from1 .1.2001
|
|
Step 4*
|
52,759
|
54,342
|
56,516
|
58,692 f +
|
13
|
|
Step 13
|
52,182
|
53,747
|
55,897
|
|
|
|
Step 3*
|
50,239
|
51,224
|
53,273
|
55,937
|
12
|
|
Step 12
|
49,732
|
|
|
|
|
|
Step 11
|
47,846
|
49,281
|
51,252
|
53,815
|
11
|
|
Step 2*
|
47,722
|
|
|
|
|
|
Step 10
|
45,964
|
47,343
|
49,237
|
51,699
|
10
|
|
Step 1*
|
45,309
|
|
|
|
|
|
Step 9
|
44,081
|
45,403
|
47,219
|
49,580
|
9
|
|
Step 8
|
42,199
|
43,465
|
45,204
|
47,464
|
8
|
|
Step 7
|
40,314
|
41,523
|
43,184
|
45,343
|
7
|
|
Step 6
|
38,431
|
39,584
|
41,167
|
43,225
|
6
|
|
Step 5
|
36,549
|
37,645
|
39,151
|
41,109
|
5
|
|
Step 4
|
34,665
|
35,705
|
37,133
|
38,990
|
4
|
|
Step 3
|
32,958
|
33,947
|
35,305
|
37,070
|
3
|
|
Step 2
|
30,898
|
31,825
|
33,098
|
34,753
|
2
|
|
Step 1
|
28,348
|
29,198
|
30,366
|
31,884
|
1
|
f In accordance with subclause 3.2 of clause 3, Salaries,
for 2003 TAFE teachers on the top of the common incremental salary scale shall
be paid a one-off (superannuable) allowance to bring their total quantum of
salary increases to 16.98%.
+ In accordance with subclause 3.3 of clause 3, Salaries, from
July 2003 an amount of $300 per annum shall be allocated to school teachers on
the top of the common incremental salary scale. From 1 January 2004 the top of the common incremental salary
scale shall include the amount of $300 per annum.
* Steps for
unpromoted teachers, counsellors, education officers, adult literacy officers
and assistant outreach coordinators in TAFE
|
NOTE: This Schedule provides the following overall
increases in salary:
3
percent on and from 1 July 2001
4
percent on and from 1 July 2002
5
percent on and from 1 January 2003
|
Schedule 2 - Allowances
|
Schools
|
Current rates
|
Rates on and
|
Rates on and
|
Rates on
|
|
|
(after increase
|
from 1.7.2001
|
from 1.7.2002
|
and from
|
|
|
by 4% by
Determination on and from 3.4.2000) ($)
|
($)
|
($)
|
1.1.2003 ($)
|
|
Home School Liaison Officer and Aboriginal Student Liaison
Officer
|
1,555
|
1,602
|
1,666
|
1,749
|
|
Teacher in Charge
|
2,408
|
2,480
|
2,579
|
2,708
|
|
Year Adviser
|
2,137
|
2,201
|
2,289
|
2,403
|
|
Teachers with Health Education
|
|
|
|
|
|
Certificate
|
769
|
792
|
824
|
865
|
|
Teachers other than the principal of classes of students
with disabilities
|
1,366
|
1,407
|
1,463
|
1,536
|
|
Principals, schools for specific
|
|
|
|
|
|
purposes
|
1,782
|
1,835
|
1,908
|
2,003
|
|
Principal of Stewart House
|
9,074
|
9,346
|
9,720
|
10,206
|
|
Assistant Principal of Stewart
|
|
|
|
|
|
House
|
6,010
|
6,190
|
6,438
|
6,760
|
|
In a central school - DP (Primary), AP
|
1,082
|
1,114
|
1,159
|
1,217
|
|
Demonstration Schools:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Principal
|
|
|
|
|
|
Class PP1
|
1,571
|
1,618
|
1,683
|
1,767
|
|
Class PP2
|
1,393
|
1,435
|
1,492
|
1,567
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other promotion positions
|
1,221
|
1,258
|
1,308
|
1,373
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Trained Teacher
|
992
|
1,022
|
1,063
|
1,116
|
|
Demonstration lessons:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Teachers in schools required to take demonstration
lessons:
|
|
|
|
|
|
per lesson
|
27.94
|
28.78
|
29.93
|
31.43
|
|
In other schools:
|
|
|
|
|
|
per half hour lesson
|
33.80
|
34.81
|
36.20
|
38.01
|
|
per 40 min. lesson
|
45.04
|
46.39
|
48.25
|
50.66
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Maximum per annum
|
2,545
|
2,621
|
2,726
|
2,862
|
|
Residential Agricultural High
|
|
|
|
|
|
Schools:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rostered supervision
|
6,010
|
6,190
|
6,438
|
6,760
|
|
teachers
|
|
|
|
|
|
Head Teacher (Welfare)
|
|
|
|
|
|
residential supervision allowance
|
999
|
1,029
|
1,070
|
1,124
|
|
Teacher in charge of
|
|
|
|
|
|
residential supervision allowance
|
1,030
|
1,061
|
1,103
|
1,158
|
|
Principal on call and
|
|
|
|
|
|
special responsibilities allowance
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deputy Principal on call
|
9,074
|
9,346
|
9,720
|
10,206
|
|
and special responsibilities allowance
|
8,198
|
8,444
|
8,782
|
9,221
|
|
Supervisor of female students
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Up to 200 students
|
1,073
|
1,105
|
1,149
|
1,206
|
|
201-400 students
|
1,725
|
1,777
|
1,848
|
1,940
|
|
More than 400 students
|
2,137
|
2,201
|
2,289
|
2,403
|
|
Education Officers:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non Graduate
|
|
|
|
|
|
Year 2
|
2,757
|
2,840
|
2,954
|
3,102
|
|
Year 1
|
2,757
|
2,840
|
2,954
|
3,102
|
|
Graduate
|
|
|
|
|
|
Year 2
|
2,155
|
2,220
|
2,309
|
2,424
|
|
Year 1
|
2,155
|
2,220
|
2,309
|
2,424
|
|
Additional Responsibility
|
Current rates
|
Rates on and
|
Rates on and
|
Rates on
|
|
Allowances - TAFE
|
(after increase
|
from 1.7.2001
|
from 1.7.2002
|
and from
|
|
|
by 4% by
|
($)
|
($)
|
1.1.2003
|
|
|
Determination
|
|
|
($)
|
|
|
on and from
|
|
|
|
|
|
3.4.2000) ($)
|
|
|
|
|
Teacher
|
2,378
|
2,449
|
2,547
|
2,674
|
|
TAFE counsellor nominated as
|
|
|
|
|
|
counsellor in charge
|
1,056
|
1,088
|
1,132
|
1,189
|
|
Part time casual teachers teaching
|
|
|
|
|
|
within a correctional centre (per hour)
|
1.04
|
1.07
|
1.11
|
1.17
|
Schedule 3 - Locality Allowances
1. Definitions -
1.1 For the
purposes of this schedule:
1.1.1 "Dependent
child" means, unless otherwise defined in the award, a child of which a
teacher is a parent and who is resident with and wholly maintained by such
teacher and either is under the age of sixteen years or is a full time student
under the age of eighteen years or is completing their school studies up to and
including Year 12.
1.1.2 "Dependent
partner" means a person who is resident with and substantially reliant
upon a teacher for their financial support, being either the teacher's spouse
or a person whom the Director-General is satisfied is cohabiting otherwise than
in marriage with the teacher in a permanent de facto and bona fide domestic
relationship.
1.1.3 "Duly
qualified" means a practitioner practising in Australia who, by training,
skill and experience, is competent to diagnose, advise with regard to, and or
treat the condition in relation to which relevant medical or dental assistance,
as the case may be, is reasonably sought.
1.1.4 "Married
couple" means and shall include a teacher and their spouse or a person
whom the Director-General is satisfied is cohabiting otherwise than in marriage
in a permanent de facto and bona fide domestic relationship.
1.1.5 "Practitioner"
means a legally qualified and lawfully practising medical practitioner or, as
appropriate, a legally qualified and lawfully practising dentist and includes a
duly qualified and lawfully practising physiotherapist to whom a teacher or a
dependent spouse, partner or child of a teacher has been referred for treatment
by a legally qualified medical practitioner.
1.1.6 "Reimbursable
expenses" means, for the purposes of Part E of this schedule:
(i) Actual travel
costs in excess of the amounts specified in subparagraph (iv) of this paragraph
in any one instance reasonably incurred in transporting a teacher and or a
dependent partner and or dependent child of a teacher from his or her place of
residence to a place at which a duly qualified practitioner is consulted.
(ii) Travel
charges in excess of the amounts specified in subparagraph (iv) of this
paragraph in any one instance made by a duly qualified practitioner reasonably
summoned to a teacher or a dependent partner or dependent child of a teacher at
or near the place of residence of the teacher.
(iii) The actual
cost of accommodation not being hospital or nursing accommodation reasonably
and necessarily incurred by a teacher or a dependent partner or dependent child
of a teacher in connection with the attendance of that person away from their
place of residence at a place at which a duly qualified practitioner is
consulted.
(iv) For the
purposes of subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph, the amounts which
travel costs and charges must exceed are as follows:
|
Current amount
(after increase
|
On and from
1.7.2001
|
On and from
1.7.2002
|
On and from
|
|
of 4% by
Determination on
|
($)
|
($)
|
1.1.2003 ($)
|
|
and from 3.4.2000)
($)
|
|
|
|
|
18
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
1.1.7 "School or
campus" shall include any school, college, campus, branch, annex, centre
or other establishment to which a teacher is appointed.
1.1.8 "Single
teacher" means and shall include a widow, widower, divorcee or teacher
living separately and apart from their spouse.
1.1.9 "Travel
costs" means, for the purposes of Part E of this schedule, the actual
return transport costs payable in respect of the means of conveyance most
appropriate to the circumstances and, in relation to a motor vehicle owned by a
teacher or a dependent partner of a teacher, an amount calculated for the total
distance travelled at the specified journey rate determined from time to time
by the Director-General; provided, however, that transport costs shall not in
any circumstances exceed a sum which would be applicable to any return trip
over a distance greater than that to and from the place of residence of the
relevant teacher and the GPO at Sydney.
1.1.10 "Teacher"
for the purpose of this schedule means a permanent or temporary employee
covered by this award.
2. Part A -
Allowances - Climatic Disability -
2.1 Subject to
clause 7 of this schedule, a teacher appointed to a school or campus located in
the Western Division of New South Wales upon or to the west of a line starting
from a point on the right bank of the Murray River opposite Swan Hill
(Victoria), and thence by straight lines passing through the following towns or
localities in the order stated, viz., Conargo, Coleambally, Hay, Rankins
Springs, Marsden, Condobolin, Peak Hill, Nevertire, Gulargambone,
Coonabarabran, Wee Waa, Moree, Warialda, Ashford and Bonshaw, shall be paid an
allowance at the rates prescribed in subclause 2.4 below.
2.2 Subject to
clause 7 of this schedule, a teacher appointed to a school or campus within a
zone of New South Wales established by the 0 Degrees Celsius July Average
Minimum Temperature Isotherm as contained in the Climatic Atlas of Australia,
June 1974 as amended, and published by the Bureau of Meteorology, shall be paid
an allowance at the rates prescribed in subclause 2.4 below.
2.3 The allowances
prescribed in subclauses 2.1 and 2.2 of this Part may be extended, excluded or
otherwise varied by the Director-General to take into account any special
circumstances.
2.4 Allowances
under subclauses 2.1 and 2.2 are as follows:
|
Subclause
|
Climatic allowances
|
Current amount
|
On and from
|
On and from
|
On and
|
|
No.
|
|
(after increase
|
1.7.2001
|
1.7.2002
|
from
|
|
|
|
of 4% by
|
|
|
1.1.2003
|
|
|
|
Determination
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
on and from
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Per annum ($)
|
|
|
2.1
|
Teacher without
|
735
|
757
|
787
|
826
|
|
|
|
dependent partner
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Teacher with
|
867
|
893
|
929
|
975
|
|
|
|
dependent partner
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2.2
|
Teacher without
|
371
|
382
|
397
|
417
|
|
|
|
dependent partner
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Teacher with
|
495
|
509
|
529
|
556
|
|
|
|
dependent partner*
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
* The dependent
partner rate is one third greater than the rate for a teacher without a
dependent partner.
3. Part B -
Allowances - Isolation from Socio Economic Goods and Services -
3.1 A teacher
appointed to a school or campus included in Appendix A of this schedule shall
be paid the following allowances -
|
Group
|
Current amount
(after
|
On and from
|
On and from
|
On and from
|
|
|
increase of 4% by
|
1.7.2001
|
1.7.2002
|
1.1.2003
|
|
|
Determination on
and
|
|
|
|
|
|
from 3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Per annum ($)
|
|
1
|
2,410
|
2,482
|
2,581
|
2,710
|
|
2
|
2,168
|
2,233
|
2,322
|
2,438
|
|
3
|
1,927
|
1,985
|
2,064
|
2,167
|
|
4
|
1,687
|
1,738
|
1,808
|
1,898
|
|
5
|
1,446
|
1,489
|
1,549
|
1,626
|
|
6
|
1,205
|
1,241
|
1,291
|
1,356
|
|
7
|
964
|
993
|
1,033
|
1,085
|
|
8
|
723
|
745
|
775
|
814
|
|
9
|
484
|
499
|
519
|
545
|
|
10
|
241
|
248
|
258
|
271
|
3.2 A teacher with
a dependent partner shall receive double the allowance prescribed in subclause
3.1 of this clause.
3.3 Subject to
clause 7 of this schedule, a teacher entitled to an allowance under subclause
3.1 of this clause and with a dependent child or children shall be paid the
following additional allowances -
|
Group
|
1st dependent child
|
|
|
Current amount
(after
|
On and from
1.7.2001
|
On and from
|
On and from
|
|
|
increase of 4% by
|
|
1.7.2002
|
1.1.2003
|
|
|
Determination on
and
|
|
|
|
|
|
from 3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Per annum ($)
|
|
Group 1
|
288
|
297
|
309
|
324
|
|
Group 2
|
251
|
259
|
269
|
282
|
|
Group 3
|
213
|
219
|
228
|
239
|
|
Group 4
|
176
|
181
|
188
|
197
|
|
Groups 5 and 6
|
139
|
143
|
149
|
156
|
|
Group
|
2nd and subsequent
dependent child
|
|
|
Current amount
(after
|
On and from
|
On and from
|
On and from
|
|
|
increase of 4% by
|
1.7.2001
|
1.7.2002
|
1.1.2003
|
|
|
Determination on
and
|
|
|
|
|
|
from 3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Per annum ($)
|
|
Group 1
|
194
|
200
|
208
|
218
|
|
Group 2
|
158
|
163
|
170
|
179
|
|
Group 3
|
120
|
124
|
129
|
135
|
|
Group 4
|
84
|
87
|
90
|
95
|
|
Groups 5 and 6
|
46
|
47
|
49
|
51
|
4. Part C -
Allowances - Motor Vehicle -
4.1 Subject to
clause 7 of this schedule, a teacher appointed to a school or campus included
in Appendix A of this schedule shall be paid the following allowances -
|
Group
|
Current amount
(after
|
On and from
|
On and from
|
On and from
|
|
|
increase of 4% by
|
1.7.2001
|
1.7.2002
|
1.1.2003
|
|
|
Determination on
and
|
|
|
|
|
|
from 3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Per annum ($)
|
|
Groups 1, 2 and 3
|
1,296
|
1,335
|
1,388
|
1,457
|
|
Groups 4, 5 and 6
|
649
|
668
|
695
|
730
|
5. Part D--
Allowances - Vacation Travel Expense - Subject to clause 7 of this schedule.
5.1 A teacher,
when proceeding on vacation leave, shall be entitled in any calendar year to
the payment of certain travel expenses on the following occasions:
5.1.1 if appointed to
a school or campus included in Appendix A of this schedule and in:
(i) Groups 1 and
2 - three vacation journeys;
(ii) Groups 3, 4,
5 and 6 - two vacation journeys;
(iii) Group 7 - one
vacation journey; or
5.1.2 if appointed to
a school or campus covered by Determination 21 of the Determinations made
pursuant to section 25 of the Teaching
Services Act 1980, one vacation journey; and or
5.1.3 if appointed to
a school or campus located more than 720 kilometres from Sydney by the nearest
practicable route and other than a school or campus referred to in paragraph
5.1.1 of this subclause, one or more journey(s) if, given the circumstances of
the school or campus location, the Director-General considers it to be
warranted.
Provided always that the provisions of paragraphs 5.1.1,
5.1.2 and 5.1.3 shall not apply to a teacher with less than three years'
service who, at the date of their engagement for service, was resident in the
relevant area.
5.2 A teacher
eligible for the payment of travelling expenses under subclause 5.1 shall have
those travelling expenses calculated according to the formula for reimbursement
set out in Determination 21 referred to in paragraph 5.1.2 of subclause 5.1 of
this clause, except that the amount of overnight expenses shall be as set out
in subclause 5.3 below, subject to the conditions contained in the
aforementioned Determination. Provided
that the use of a teacher's own car shall not require the approval of the
Director‑General.
5.3 For the
purposes of subclause 5.2, the amount of overnight expenses are as follows:
|
Current amount
(after
|
On and from
1.7.2001 ($)
|
On and from
1.7.2002 ($)
|
On and from
|
|
increase of 4% by
|
|
|
1.1.2003 ($)
|
|
Determination on
and from
|
|
|
|
|
3.4.2000) ($)
|
|
|
|
|
24
|
25
|
26
|
27
|
6. Part E -
Reimbursement of Certain Expenses Related to Medical or Dental Treatment.
6.1 The provisions
of subclauses 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 and 6.6 of this clause apply only to a teacher
who is appointed to a school or campus included in Appendix A of this schedule,
but do not apply to a teacher -
6.1.1 who for the
time being is on maternity leave; or
6.1.2 who is married
to a spouse or has a partner normally resident in the locality, unless such
spouse or partner is normally and usually dependent upon the teacher as a
consequence of illness, incapacity or other reasonable inability to earn an
income sufficient to support themselves and or his or her child or children, as
the case may be.
6.2 Where a
teacher reasonably incurs reimbursable expense, the amount thereof shall be
paid to that teacher upon written application made to the Director‑General.
6.2.1 A teacher shall
not be disentitled to such payment merely by reason of the fact that the
reimbursable expense incurred was in relation to the attendance by or upon a
duly qualified practitioner who was not the nearest duly qualified practitioner
available at the relevant time if special circumstances in the particular case
render it desirable that the services of some other duly qualified practitioner
be sought.
6.2.2 In any instance
in which it is necessary for the teacher or the partner of the teacher or some
other attendant to accompany the person in respect of whom reimbursable expense
is incurred then, upon written application by the teacher to the Director‑General,
the additional travel and accommodation costs reasonably and actually incurred
shall be paid to the teacher.
6.3 A teacher who
claims payment of reimbursable expenses shall provide such evidence in
substantiation of the claim as the Director-General may reasonably require.
6.4 The
Director-General shall be entitled to refuse payment of any claim where it
appears that the expense arose as a direct consequence of the serious and
wilful misconduct or gross negligence of the person in respect of whom the
expense was incurred.
6.5 A teacher
shall, in respect of any occurrence which gives rise to the incurring of
reimbursable expense, take all reasonable steps to recover any insurance,
contributory fund, workers' compensation or other benefits or common law
damages as may lawfully be payable in respect thereof and any sum actually
recovered in respect of items of reimbursable expense under this Schedule shall
be brought to credit as against the Director‑General's liability for the
same. If any such sum shall be recovered subsequently to payment by the
Director‑General of reimbursable expense to a teacher, that teacher shall
make an appropriate repayment. The Director‑General shall not be entitled
to withhold payment of reimbursable expense merely upon the ground that it or
some portion of it may be recoverable at some time in the future from a third
party.
6.6 The Director‑General
may, by notice in writing, require any teacher to effect and keep on foot a
policy of insurance or membership of a medical fund to cover that teacher's
liability for items of the nature of reimbursable expense under this schedule.
6.6.1 In any such
case, the Director‑General shall reimburse to the teacher the amount by
which any premium or contribution incurred in so doing exceeds the following
amounts:
|
Current amount
(after
|
On and from
1.7.2001 (per
|
On and from
1.7.2002 (per
|
On and from
|
|
increase of 4% by
|
annum) $
|
annum) $
|
1.1.2003 (per
|
|
Determination on
and from
|
|
|
annum) $
|
|
3.4.2000) (per
annum) $
|
|
|
|
|
18
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
6.6.2 If a teacher
fails to comply with a requirement made by the Director‑General under
this subclause, such teacher shall not be entitled to claim any reimbursable
expense which, but for their failure, would have been recouped to that teacher
as a result of the relevant insurance or membership.
6.7 When a teacher
is necessarily absent from duty for the purpose of securing advice and or
treatment from a duly qualified practitioner for such teacher or dependent
partner or child of such teacher, any period of such absence involved in
travelling to or from the place of residence of the teacher to the place at
which the advice or treatment is obtained shall not be debited against any sick
leave credit to which that teacher is entitled. Provided that this clause shall
be without prejudice to the right of the Director-General in their discretion
to temporarily appoint the teacher to a school or campus nearer to the place of
consultation or treatment where they may deem it desirable so to do.
6.8 The Director‑General
shall be entitled to decline payment of reimbursable expense to a teacher in
any instance in which such expense relates to a non urgent elective
consultation or treatment which might reasonably have been sought during a
vacation period whilst the teacher or their relevant dependent partner, child
or children (as the case may be) had, in the normal course, travelled to a
location at which the type of consultation or treatment could be obtained.
7. Part F -
Payment of Allowances According to Marital Status (Payment of Allowances
Regardless of Marital Status).
7.1 Subject to
subclause 7.2 of this clause, where a married couple consists of two teachers
who are otherwise eligible for payment of an allowance under this schedule
then, in the case of an allowance under:
7.1.1 subclause 2.1
or 2.2 of clause 2 of this schedule, each teacher shall only be entitled to one
half of the allowance provided therein for a teacher with a dependent partner;
7.1.2 subclause 3.3
of clause 3 of this schedule, each teacher shall only be entitled to one half
of the allowance provided therein for a teacher with a dependent child or
children;
7.1.3 clause 4 of
this schedule, each teacher shall only be entitled to one half of the motor
vehicle allowance applicable to a single teacher;
7.1.4 clause 5 of
this schedule, each teacher shall only be entitled to one half of the vacation
travel allowance; and
7.1.5 subclause 6.2
of clause 6 of this schedule, each teacher shall not qualify for reimbursement
of expenses in so far as the teacher's partner qualifies for and claims
reimbursement as a teacher.
7.2 Where a
married couple includes a teacher entitled to allowances under the award and a
person entitled to a similar allowance under the provisions of the Crown
Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment 1997) Award published 24
April 1998 (304 I.G. 570), as varied, or otherwise, the teacher shall only
receive the difference between that allowance and the married couple or
dependent allowances under this schedule.
8. Part G -
Locality Allowance Committee -
8.1 A Locality
Allowance Committee shall be established for the purpose of -
8.1.1 investigating
all matters in dispute and reporting and making recommendations thereon to the
Director-General and Managing Director and the Federation;
8.1.2 recommending
the inclusion or deletion of schools or campuses to be covered by the
provisions of clause 3 of this schedule; and
8.1.3 recommending
the appropriate groupings and alteration of existing groupings of schools or
campuses within clause 3 of this schedule.
8.2 The Locality
Allowance Committee shall -
8.2.1 consist of an
equal number of representatives nominated by the Director-General and Managing
Director, and the Federation;
8.2.2 elect its own
chairperson, who shall not have a casting vote;
8.2.3 be permitted to
act in the absence of any member, provided more than one half of the members
are present; and
8.2.4 by its creation
and operation not affect the exercise of the powers and functions of any
tribunal constituted under the Industrial
Relations Act 1996.
APPENDIX A - ALLOWANCE FOR ISOLATION FROM SOCIO ECONOMIC
GOODS AND SERVICES
Groupings of Schools and Campuses
Group 1 (11)
Clare Enngonia Goodooga CS Louth Marra Creek
Nymagee Pooncarie
Tibooburra Wanaaring Weilmoringle
White Cliffs
____________________________________________________________________________________
Group 2 (12)
Baryulgil Booligal Boomi Bullarah Byrock
Ellerston Hatfield Hill End Ivanhoe Menindee
Wilcannia CS & TAFE
Group 3 (14)
Bylong Upper Cabramurra
Carinda Coolabah Corinella
Goodooga TAFE Jerangle
Lightning Ridge Mingoola Moonan Flat
Mount Parry Nowendoc
Quambone Rowena Tuena
____________________________________________________________________________________
Group 4 (24)
Bellbrook Blackville
Collarenebri Croppa Creek Drake
Ebor Fairfax Garah Hermidale Kingstown
Mallawa Mungindi
Naradhan Niangala Palinyewah
Reid's Flat Tullibigeal Tulloona Wollar Wongwibinda
Wooli Wytaliba Yarras Yarrowitch
Group 5 (41)
Bigga Bonalbo
Bribbaree Burraboi Burraga
Burren Junction Cassilis
Chandler Collie Drinane
Dundurrabin Elands Euabalong West Eumungerie Girilambone
Glen Alice Glenreagh
Gwabegar Hargraves Jackadgery
Jugiong Mallan Mayrung Millbank North Star
Nymboida Old
Bonalbo Premer Pyramul Rankins Springs
Rollands Plains Upper Rosewood Rugby Sofala
Spring Ridge Tabulam Tambar Springs Tooraweenah Trunkey
Windeyer Yetman
Group 6 (35)
Ballimore Bedgerabong Bellata Belltrees Bendemeer
Bonshaw Brewarrina
CS Bundarra Caragabal Conargo
Deepwater Emmaville
Five Mile Tree Goolma Graman
Grevillia Hernani
Humula Lansdowne Upper Long Flat
Medlow Mullaley Pallamallawa Rand Rouchel
Stuart Town Talbingo Toomelah Tottenham Ulong
Walgett HS & PS Wambangalang
FSC Wattle
Flat Wirrimah
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Group 7 (60)
Ashford Baan
Baa Barkers Vale Ben Lomond Bendick Murrell
Balranald Bobin
Bogan Gate Brewarrina TAFE Bungwahl
Bunnaloo Burcher
Cargo Coolongolook Coopers Creek Upper
Copmanhurst Crestview Currawarna Dalgety Dungowan
Ellangowan Euchareena
Gravesend Greenethorpe Hannam Vale
Khancoban Lake
Cargelligo Limbri Lowanna Mallanganee
Mangoplah Merriwagga Moulamein Mullengandra Mumbil
Mummulgum Murringo Nana Glen Orama Pilliga
Pleasant Hills Quandialla Rappville Savernake Somerton
Tallimba Tarcutta Tooleybuc Towamba Tucabia
Tullamore Willala Ulan Willawarrin Urbenville
Woolbrook Walbundrie Woolomin Walhallow Wyangala
Dam
Weethalle
____________________________________________________________________________________
Group 8 (80)
Afterlee Ando Ardlethan Attunga Balldale
Beckom Bemboka
Binalong Binya Blighty
Boree Creek Bourke
HS, PS, TAFE Brocklesby
Burrumbuttock
Byabarra Cabbage
Tree Island Carroll
Collins Creek
Comboyne Cowper Curlewis Currabubula Delegate
Dorroughby FSC Duri Dunoon Errowanbang Eurongilly
Euston Ganmain Goolgowi Gooloogong Gulargambone
Illabo Iluka Jiggi Johns River Koorawatha
Krambach Ladysmith Larnook Lowesdale Lue
Lyndhurst Manifold Matong Mendooran Moonbi
Moorland Mount
George Murrami Nabiac Nangus
Nevertire Nimbin Nundle Peak Hill Risk, The
Rookhurst Rosebank Rukenvale Rye Park Stockinbingal
Stratheden Telegraph
Point Tingha Trundle Tumbarumba HS & PS
Tuntable Creek Tyalgum Wakool Wiangaree Woodenbong
Whian Whian Woodstock Whitton Wyndham
__________________________________________________________________________________
Group 9 (75)
Ariah Park Bald
Blair Barellan Barmedman Blandford
Boggabilla TAFE Brungle
Burringbar Channon, The Clergate
Clunes Coffee
Camp Collingullie Collombatti Rail Coolah
Coramba Corndale
Coutts Crossing Crabbes Creek Crossmaglen
Cudal Darlington
Pt Delungra Eltham Eungai
Eureka Galong Gerogery Geurie Grong Grong
Gum Flat Ilford Jennings Kentucky Kootingal
Maimuru Mandurama Manildra Marrar Merriwa
Milbrulong Mitchells
Island Monteagle Mullion Creek Murrurundi
Neville Newbridge Nimmitabel Numeralla Oaklands
Orara Upper Oxley
Island Pacific Palms Pocket, The Pomona
Pottsville Beach Quaama Red Range Rock Central, The Sandy Hollow
Spring Hill Stratford Thalgarrah FSC Timbumburi Ulmarra
Urana Uranquinty Walla Walla Wallabadah Wallendbeen
Wardell Wombat Wongarbon Woodford Dale Woomargama
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Group 10 (124)
Adaminaby Adelong
Barham HS & PS Barrington Batlow
Berridale Bexhill Bibbenluke Bingara Binnaway
Black Mountain Blakebrook
Bodalla Boggabilla CS Boggabri
Bombala HS & PS Bonville Borenore Bournda
FSC Broadwater
Candelo Caniaba
Carcoar Carool Cascade FSC
Central Tilba Chatsworth
Island Chillingham Cobar HS, PS, TAFE Coleambally
Coolamon Coomealla Coopernook Coorabell Coraki
Corindi Crescent
Head Crowdy Head Crystal Creek Cumnock
Cundleton Dareton Dorrigo HS & PS Doubtful Creek Duranbah
Dunedoo CS & TAFE Durrumbul Empire Vale Eugowra
Farrer MAHS Fernleigh Fingal Head Ghinni Ghinni Gilgai
Gladstone Goolmangar Goonengerry Harrington Herons Creek
Hillston Howlong Huntingdon Jerilderie Jindabyne
Jindera Karangi Kellys Plains Kendall Kinchela
Laggan Lansdowne Lawrence Leeville Lennox
Head
Lockhart Main
Arm Upper Martindale Mathoura Millthorpe
Modanville Mogo
Nanima Nemingha Numulgi
Nyngan HS, PS, TAFE Old
Bar Pearces Creek Repton
Rous Scotts
Head Smithtown Spring Terrace Stokers Siding
Stuarts Point Table
Top Tanja Tathra Terranora
Teven-Tintenbar Tinonee Tintinhull Tregeagle Tumbulgum
Uki Warren
CS & TAFE Wee
Waa HS & PS Wentworth
Willow Tree Wilsons
Creek Woodburn Wyrallah Yenda
Yeoval Yerong
Creek
SCHOOL SECTION
18. Assessment and
Reporting and Quality of Educational Outcomes
18.1 The following
shall be implemented:
18.1.1 the Basic Skills
Tests;
18.1.2 English Literacy
and Language Assessment tests;
18.1.3 annual school
reports and associated school self-evaluation and improvement programs;
18.1.4 school
development policy;
18.1.5 the School
Certificate and the Higher School Certificate;
18.1.6 Secondary
Numeracy Assessment Program; and
18.1.7 Computing Skills
Assessment Years 6 and 10.
18.2 These shall be
subject to the protocols agreed to in 1997 in relation to Annual School
Self-Evaluation, Annual School Reporting and external test data (contained in
Matter No. IRC 3925/97 as tabled in the Industrial Relations Commission).
18.3 The parties
agree to negotiate on variations, if any, to the policies and procedures in
place at the commencement of the award, relevant to annual school reports,
school self-evaluation committees and school reviews.
19. Procedures For
Managing Teachers Who Are Experiencing
Difficulties With Their Teaching Performance
19.1 The Procedures
For Managing Teachers Who Are Experiencing Difficulties With Their Teaching
Performance (attached to Department Memoranda to Principals 99/486 (S.354) and
00/389 (S.304)) will be implemented.
20. Teaching Hours
for Years 11 and 12 in Schools
20.1 The purpose of
this clause is to increase the delivery of Vocational Education and Training in
schools and to enhance the curriculum opportunities available for post
compulsory secondary students arising from the new Higher School
Certificate.
20.2 A secondary
school shall have core hours sufficient to operate an eight by 40 minute period
timetable per day (or its equivalent).
20.3 A principal
shall arrange for timetabling of classes for the year (or other period over
which a school’s timetable may apply) to maximise the extent to which the
curriculum preferences of Year 11 and 12 students can be satisfied to meet the
purpose expressed in subclause 20.1 above.
20.4 In addition to
the core hours a principal may timetable classes for Years 11 and 12 outside
core timetable hours between 7.30 am and 5.30 pm Monday to Friday, where not to
do so would unnecessarily restrict Year 11 and 12 student course choice,
provided that:
20.4.1 the principal
has consulted with the school community; and
20.4.2 has taken into
account the issues of course access for Year 11 and 12 students, parental
concerns and practical matters relating to the operation of classes at such
times.
20.5 A school
teacher shall not unreasonably refuse to teach classes at this time.
20.6 Provided that
the overall hours of duty of the school teacher shall not be exceeded, a school
teacher timetabled in accordance with this clause and working beyond the core
timetable hours shall be entitled to an equivalent period of core timetabled
time off during the week for the time beyond the core time so taught. Wherever possible, the time off should be at
the beginning or end of the core hours of the school day.
20.7 A school
teacher shall not be required to be timetabled both before and after the core
hours on any given day.
21. Allocation of
Duties in High Schools
21.1 School teachers
(other than teachers in training), head teachers and deputy principals in high
schools may be required to teach the following periods (or their time
equivalent):
|
Classification
|
Teaching periods
per week
|
Periods per week,
as determined by the principal, for sport (refer to subclause 21.6)
|
|
Teachers in High Schools
|
28
|
up to 3
|
|
Head Teachers in High Schools
|
22
|
up to 3
|
|
Deputy Principals in High Schools
|
14
|
up to 3
|
21.2 A principal may
require a school teacher (other than a teacher in training), head teacher or
deputy principal in high schools to relieve an absent colleague by working the
following alternate periods:
|
Classification
|
Additional
Alternate Periods per term
|
|
Teachers in High Schools
|
Up to 6
|
|
Head Teachers in High Schools
|
Up to 5
|
|
Deputy Principals in High Schools
|
Up to 3
|
21.3 Provided that
such alternate periods shall be allocated:
21.3.1 with due regard
to the non teaching duties required to be performed by the school teacher, head
teacher or deputy principal; and
21.3.2 as far as
possible to a school teacher, head teacher or deputy principal in the same
faculty as that of the absent teacher.
21.4 Nothing in
subclauses 21.1 to 21.3 shall preclude a school teacher from working school
generated or other alternate periods on a voluntary basis where the exigencies
of the work and the welfare of the students so require.
21.5 School teachers
may, at the discretion of the principal, be required to take "in lieu
of" classes.
21.6 In lieu of
requiring a school teacher to supervise sporting activity in accordance with
subclause 21.1 of this clause, a principal of a school, with the agreement of
the teacher or teachers concerned, may make provision for that teacher or
teachers to undertake two periods of alternate face to face teaching duties
during weekdays or to undertake sports supervision on weekends.
21.7 A principal may
require all school teachers with Year 12 classes to take, from the time Year 12
students leave to sit for their Higher School Certificate examinations in Term
4 of each year, up to 50 per cent of their timetable load of Year 12 classes as
Year 12 relieving periods. So far as possible, periods shall be allocated to a
teacher in the same faculty as that of the absent teacher.
22. Teaching Outside
Normal School Hours
22.1 A principal,
with the agreement of the school teacher or school teachers concerned, may make
provision for timetabling of certain classes other than Years 11 and 12 classes
beyond the core hours of operation of a school and for teachers to work within
those extended hours. Provided that the
overall hours of duty of the school teacher shall not be exceeded.
22.2 A school
teacher commencing or finishing duty before or after the required attendance
for the core hours at the school, shall be entitled to an equivalent period of
time off during the week. Wherever
possible, the time allocated in lieu of extended duty should be at the
beginning or end of the core hours of the school day.
23. Alternative Work
Organisation
23.1 Except as
provided in clause 9, Teaching in More Than One Location; clause 20, Teaching
Hours for Years 11 and 12 in Schools; or clause 22, Teaching Outside Normal
School Hours:
23.2 The parties
agree to provide options which facilitate alternative work organisations in
schools.
23.3 Teaching staff
in a school or other workplace may seek to vary its organisation in order to
improve students' learning conditions and or to improve teachers' working
conditions, provided that:
23.3.1 the proposal can
be implemented within the school's or workplace's current staffing entitlement;
23.3.2 the proposal has
the concurrence of the principal (or other responsible officer) and the
majority of the staff;
23.3.3 the school
teachers directly affected by the proposal concur;
23.3.4 consultation
with staff, parents, students and relevant community groups is undertaken where
appropriate;
23.3.5 consideration is
given to equity and gender and family issues involved in the proposal;
23.3.6 proposed
variations in work arrangements are in writing and approved by the
Director-General or nominee and Federation organiser or state office director
and senior officer of the Federation, prior to implementation;
23.3.7 if either party
believes that the proposed variation in work organisation is in conflict with
the provisions of the award, then the proposal shall be forwarded to the
Alternative Work Organisation Committee, consisting of two senior officers of
the Department and of the Federation, or nominees, to review the proposals
developed;
23.3.8 where the
Alternative Work Organisation Committee considers a proposed variation in work
arrangements which complies with 23.3.1 to 23.3.6 above conflicts with the
provisions of the award the parties may apply to the Industrial Relations
Commission to vary the award by consent; and
23.3.9 the parties
agree to continue to trial and review pilots on work organisation in schools
arising from proposals under the National Schools Network.
24. School Teachers
Appointed to More Than One School
24.1 Where in any
school a school teacher cannot be, or has not been, allocated a complete
teaching load the school teacher may be appointed to teach in more than one
school. Such teachers include teacher
librarians and teachers of English as a second language.
24.2 A teacher
appointed to two or more schools shall be entitled to the travel compensation
and excess travel provisions of Part A of Schedule 8 Excess Travel and
Compensation for Travel on Official Business - School Teachers.
25. Qualifications,
Recruitment and Training
25.1 The minimum
academic qualifications, vocational experience and or industrial experience and
teacher training requirement for appointment as a school teacher or other
officer shall be determined by the Director-General.
25.2 The
Director-General shall determine the procedures and mode of appointment for the
recruitment of teachers from persons with an appropriate mix of academic
qualifications, teacher training and or industry/vocational experience during
or prior to the completion of appropriate academic qualifications or teacher
training.
26. Calculation of
Service
26.1 In calculating
the years of service for the purposes of this award, the following shall not be
taken into account:
26.1.1 any time period
during which an employee is not eligible to progress by reason of failure to
satisfy any condition attaching to salary progression under this award;
26.1.2 any leave of
absence without pay exceeding five days in any year of service;
26.1.3 any time period
necessary to give full effect to a reduction in salary imposed by the
Director-General under the provisions of the Teaching Services Act.
27. Temporary School
Teachers
27.1 From January
2001, temporary school teachers will be entitled to pro rata salary and
conditions of permanent teachers, other than the provisions at clause 10,
Deferred Salary Scheme and clause 7, Salary Packaging.
27.2 The Department
will maintain the following practice: when a school teacher has occupied a
single substantive part time position for more than two years and it is
expected that the position will continue, the teacher may apply for conversion
to permanent part time status in that position.
27.3 The Department
will seek to maximise the filling of vacancies in schools by the appointment of
permanent teachers, including permanent part time teachers, where reasonably
practical.
27.4 Subject to the
provisions of clause 26, Calculation of Service and the temporary school
teacher demonstrating by means of an annual review, continuing efficiency in
teaching practice, satisfactory performance and professional growth, a
temporary school teacher shall be entitled to be maintained on the salary level
for a promotions position or to progress to the next step of the common
incremental salary scale in Schedule 1 following the completion of:
27.4.1 203 days of
service as a temporary school teacher irrespective of breaks in that service;
or
27.4.2 an appointment,
full time, for a full school year.
27.5 Temporary
school teachers who had been in receipt of the equivalent salary at Step 8 of
the common incremental salary scale as a casual school teacher for more than
203 days shall, on engagement as a temporary school teacher on or after day one
of term one 2001, be entitled to be paid the salary at Step 9 of the common
incremental salary scale.
27.6 The parties
agree to establish a working party during 2000 and 2001 which shall negotiate
on but not be limited to the following matters in relation to the
implementation of the temporary school teacher classification.
27.6.1 maternity
leave or paid maternity leave including any right of return
27.6.2 accrued sick
leave up to the maximum of eleven days in 2001
27.6.3 annual leave
loading for a casual school teacher from 1 December 2000
27.6.4 long service
leave entitlements (under the Long
Service Leave Act 1955 and the Teaching
Services Act).
28. Casual School
Teachers
28.1 The rates of
pay for casual school teachers are set out in Schedule 6, Table 1 and Table 2.
28.2 The daily hours
of engagement for a casual school teacher, which shall be worked continuously,
shall be six and one half hours per day, including a 30 minute break during
those hours.
28.3 The minimum
daily engagement for casual school teachers shall be two hours.
28.4 Where a casual
school teacher relieves a school teacher who has been timetabled to teach as
provided in clause 20, Teaching Hours for Years 11 and 12 in Schools, then the
provisions of subclause 20.6 and 20.7 of that clause shall apply to the casual
school teacher provided that the time off can be taken either at the beginning
or end of the six and one half hour period of daily engagement of the casual
school teacher.
28.5 Where a casual
school teacher reports to a school for duty on any day on the basis of a
request by an authorised officer and is then advised that their services are
not required, the casual school teacher shall be entitled to receive payment
for one half of one day’s pay at the appropriate rate in Schedule 6, Table 1
and Table 2.
28.6 The rates of
pay of casual school teachers are loaded by 5 per cent to be inclusive of the
following incidents of employment: sick leave, family and community service
leave, special leave and leave loading.
Entitlements under the Long
Service Leave Act 1955 and Determination 203 of 1987, Maternity and
Adoption Leave or its successor, are not affected.
28.7 On completing
203 days of casual school teacher service, irrespective of breaks in that
service, a casual school teacher shall progress to the next daily rate of pay
pursuant to their classification contained in Schedule 6, Table 1 and Table 2.
29. Relief in PP6 or
Teacher in Charge Grade One Positions
29.1. Where the
qualification period for the payment of higher duties is satisfied:
29.1.1 a casual school
teacher relieving in a PP6 position or as a teacher in charge grade 1 of a
hospital school or environmental education centre in excess of ten days shall
be paid the daily rate equivalent as set out in Schedule 6, Table 3; and
29.1.2 a temporary
school teacher relieving in a PP6 position or as a teacher in charge grade 1 of
a hospital school or environmental education centre shall be paid the salary of
the position on a pro rata basis.
29.2 Where a PP6
position or a position as teacher in charge grade 1 of a hospital school or
environmental education centre has been advertised and there are no available
officers in the Education Teaching Service who apply for the position, then a
casual school teacher or a temporary school teacher who meets the merit
selection criteria may be appointed to the PP6 or teacher in charge grade one
position on a temporary basis for the remainder of the year.
30. Training and
Development
30.1 The
Director-General shall schedule each year two days during school time for the
purpose of system and school training and development.
30.2 The
Director-General shall approve additional periods during school time for
training and development of staff in some system priorities.
30.3 The
Director-General shall also provide a program of training and development
opportunities for staff outside of school hours.
31. Multiskilling
31.1 Subject to
appropriate qualifications, training and taking into account a school teacher’s
long term career path opportunities, the Director-General may make provisions
for teachers to extend or vary classifications on a temporary or permanent
basis for:
31.1.1 primary school
teachers to teach Years 7 and 8 and secondary school teachers to teach Years 5
and 6 classes;
31.1.2 secondary school
teachers to teach across subject areas in high schools; and
31.1.3 secondary or
primary school teachers to teach in subject areas covered by their
qualifications, notwithstanding faculty organisations.
31.2 The
Director-General shall:
31.2.1 identify such
other long term and short term priority areas for multi skilling to meet the
needs of the Department; and
31.2.2 designate any
appropriate qualifications and training or course accreditation requirements.
31.3 To retrain
teachers for identified priority areas, the Director-General shall establish
appropriate retraining courses of appropriate content and duration.
32. Duties as
Directed
32.1 The
Director-General or delegate, nominee or representative may direct an employee
to carry out such duties as are within the limits of the employee’s skill,
competence and training consistent with the classifications covered by the
award and provided that such duties are not designed to promote deskilling.
32.2 the
Director-General may direct an employee to carry out such duties and use such
tools, materials and equipment as may be required, provided that the employee
has been properly trained in the use of such tools, materials and equipment.
32.3 Any directions
issued by the Director-General pursuant to subclauses 32.1 and 32.2 shall be
consistent with the Director-General’s responsibility to provide a safe and
healthy working environment.
33. School
Certificate Tests Supervision
33.1 The parties
agree that secondary school teachers may decide to provide the additional
examination supervision of the School Certificate tests or for the school to
employ outside personnel to provide the additional examination supervision. Additional examination supervision is
defined as supervisory requirements over and above entitlements provided by the
Board of Studies.
33.2 Schools
conducting School Certificate tests shall receive the funding required for the
payment of additional examination supervisors of the tests based on the rates
of pay and number of additional examination supervisors required as promulgated
by the Office of the Board of Studies.
33.3 Teaching staff
in those schools can choose at a meeting convened by the principal and
Federation representative whether the school wishes to employ outside personnel
as additional examination supervisors of the tests or whether teaching staff
might provide the additional supervision of the tests.
33.4 In the event
that teaching staff decide to undertake the additional supervision of the
tests, the funding provided for the additional supervision of the tests will be
retained for use by the school for educational purposes as determined at the
meeting(s) in subclause 33.3 of this clause.
34. Reclassification
of Executive Teachers
34.1 From day one
term one 2003, all executive teachers shall be reclassified as and undertake
the duties of assistant principals. No
positions shall be lost as a result of the reclassification process.
35. Other Part time
Rates of Pay - Schools
35.1 Part time rates
of pay in schools shall be paid in terms of Schedule 7.
36. Home School
Liaison Officers and Aboriginal Student Liaison Officers - Special Conditions
36.1 Special
conditions covering home school liaison officers and Aboriginal student liaison
officers are set out in Schedule 9.
37. Teachers in
Residential Agricultural High Schools - Special Conditions
37.1 Special
conditions covering teachers at residential agricultural high schools are set
out in Schedule 10.
SCHEDULES FOR SCHOOL SECTION
Schedule 4 - Salaries - Teachers in Charge of Environmental
Education Centres and Hospital Schools
|
Classification
|
Current salary
(after increase by 4% by
|
Salary on and from
1.7.2001
|
Salary on and from
1.7.2002
|
Salary on and from
1.1.2003
|
|
|
Determination on
and from 3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Per annum ($)
|
|
Teacher in Charge Grade 2
|
64,267
|
66,195
|
68,843
|
72,285
|
|
Environmental Education
|
|
|
|
|
|
Centre or Hospital School
|
|
|
|
|
|
Teacher in Charge
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grade 1
|
57,770
|
59,503
|
61,883
|
64,977
|
|
Environmental Education
|
|
|
|
|
|
Centre or Hospital School
|
|
|
|
|
Schedule 5 - Salaries - Promotion Classifications in the
Education Teaching Service
|
Classification
|
Current salary
(after
|
Salary on and
|
Salary on and
|
Salary on and
|
|
|
increase by 4% by
|
from 1.7.2001
|
from 1.7.2002
|
from 1.1.2003
|
|
|
Determination on
|
|
|
|
|
|
and from 3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
Schools
|
Per annum ($)
|
|
High School Principal Grade 1
|
84,551
|
87,088
|
90,572
|
95,101
|
|
(PH1)
|
|
|
|
|
|
High School Principal Grade 2
|
81,010
|
83,440
|
86,778
|
91,117
|
|
(PH2);
|
|
|
|
|
|
Primary School Principal
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grade 1 (PP1);
|
|
|
|
|
|
Central School Principal Grade
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 (PC1)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Primary School Principal
|
74,704
|
76,945
|
80,023
|
84,024
|
|
Grade 2 (PP2);
|
|
|
|
|
|
Central School Principal Grade
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 (PC2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Primary School Principal
|
71,677
|
73,827
|
76,780
|
80,619
|
|
Grade 3 (PP3);
|
|
|
|
|
|
Central School Principal Grade
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 (PC3)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Primary School Principal
|
69,273
|
71,351
|
74,205
|
77,915
|
|
Grade 4 (PP4);
|
|
|
|
|
|
Central School Principal Grade
|
|
|
|
|
|
4 (PC4)
|
|
|
|
|
|
High School Deputy Principal;
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deputy Principal (Secondary)
|
68,390
|
70,442
|
73,260
|
76, 923
|
|
Central School
|
|
|
|
|
|
Primary School Principal
|
64,520
|
66,456
|
69,114
|
72,570
|
|
Grade 5 (PP5)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Primary School Deputy
|
61,668
|
63,518
|
66,059
|
69,362
|
|
Principal;
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deputy Principal (Primary)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Central School
|
|
|
|
|
|
Head Teacher High School;
|
59,154
|
60,929
|
63,366
|
66,534
|
|
Head Teacher Central School;
|
|
|
|
|
|
District Guidance Officer
|
|
|
|
|
|
Primary School Principal
|
57,770
|
59,503
|
61, 883
|
64,977
|
|
Grade 6 (PP6)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Assistant Principal Primary
|
55,962
|
57,641
|
59,947
|
62,944
|
|
School; Assistant Principal
|
|
|
|
|
|
Central School
|
|
|
|
|
|
Executive Teacher Primary
|
54, 332
|
55,962
|
58,200
|
*
|
|
School;
|
|
|
|
|
|
Executive Teacher Central
|
|
|
|
|
|
School
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior Assistant in Schools
|
54,332
|
55,962
|
58,200
|
61,110
|
* In accordance
with clause 34, Reclassification of Executive Teachers, on day one term one
2003, all executive teachers shall be reclassified as assistant
principals.
|
Classification
|
Current salary
(after
|
Salary on and
|
Salary on and
|
Salary on and
|
|
|
increase by 4% by
|
from 1.7.2001
|
from 1.7.2002
|
from 1.1.2003
|
|
|
Determination on
|
|
|
|
|
|
and from 3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
Non-school Based Teaching
|
Per annum ($)
|
|
Service Classifications Salary
|
|
|
Scales
|
|
|
Principal Education Officer
|
77,016
|
79,326
|
82,499
|
86,624
|
|
Senior Education Officer Class
|
69,410
|
71,492
|
74,352
|
78,070
|
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior Education Officer Class
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
Year 3
|
64,042
|
65,963
|
68,602
|
72,032
|
|
Year 2
|
61,599
|
63,447
|
65,985
|
69,284
|
|
Year 1
|
59,154
|
60,929
|
63,366
|
66,534
|
Schedule 6 - Rates of Pay - Casual School Teachers
Table 1
|
Trained
|
Current rates (after
|
Rates on and
|
Rates on and
|
Rates on and
|
Rates on
|
|
Teachers
|
increase by 4% by
|
from
|
from
|
from
|
and from
|
|
|
Determination on and
|
1.1.2001*
|
1.7.2001*
|
1.7.2002*
|
1.1.2003*
|
|
|
from 3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Per day ($)
|
|
|
4YT Steps
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
207.88
|
218.27
|
224.82
|
233.81
|
245.50
|
|
|
3
|
198.59
|
208.52
|
214.78
|
223.37
|
234.54
|
|
|
2**
|
189.31
|
198.78
|
204.74
|
212.93
|
223.58
|
|
|
1
|
180.04
|
189.04
|
194.71
|
202.50
|
212.63
|
|
|
3YT Steps
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
198.59
|
208.52
|
214.78
|
223.37
|
234.54
|
|
|
4
|
189.31
|
198.78
|
204.74
|
212.93
|
223.58
|
|
|
3
|
180.04
|
189.04
|
194.71
|
202.50
|
212.63
|
|
|
2
|
170.77
|
179.31
|
184.69
|
192.08
|
201.68
|
|
|
1
|
162.35
|
170.47
|
175.58
|
182.60
|
191.73
|
|
|
2YT Steps
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
180.04
|
189.04
|
194.71
|
202.50
|
212.63
|
|
|
3
|
170.77
|
179.31
|
184.69
|
192.08
|
201.68
|
|
|
2
|
162.35
|
170.47
|
175.58
|
182.60
|
191.73
|
|
|
1
|
152.20
|
159.81
|
164.60
|
171.18
|
179.74
|
|
** 5YT trained
casual school teachers commence on step 2, 4YT rates of pay
Table 2
|
Conditionally
|
Current rates
(after
|
Rates on
|
Rates on
|
Rates on
|
Rates on
|
|
Trained
|
increase by 4% by
|
and from
|
and from
|
and from
|
and from
|
|
Teachers
|
Determination on
and
|
1.1.2001*
|
1.7.2001*
|
1.7.2002*
|
1.1.2003*
|
|
|
from 3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Per day ($)
|
|
|
C (5YT) Steps
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
207.88
|
218.27
|
224.82
|
233.81
|
245.50
|
|
|
3
|
198.59
|
208.52
|
214.78
|
223.37
|
234.54
|
|
|
Y1-2
|
189.31
|
198.78
|
204.74
|
212.93
|
223.58
|
|
|
C (4YT) Steps
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
198.59
|
208.52
|
214.78
|
223.37
|
234.54
|
|
|
3
|
189.31
|
198.78
|
204.74
|
212.93
|
223.58
|
|
|
Y1-2
|
180.04
|
189.04
|
194.71
|
202.50
|
212.63
|
|
|
C (3YT) Steps
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
180.04
|
189.04
|
194.71
|
202.50
|
212.63
|
|
|
3
|
170.77
|
179.31
|
184.69
|
192.08
|
201.68
|
|
|
Y1-2
|
162.35
|
170.47
|
175.58
|
182.60
|
191.73
|
|
|
C (2YT) Steps
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
162.35
|
170.47
|
175.58
|
182.60
|
191.73
|
|
|
Y1-2
|
152.20
|
159.81
|
164.60
|
171.18
|
179.74
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
* From January
2001 the casual school teacher daily rates of pay are loaded by 5 per cent in
lieu of receiving sick leave, family and community service leave, special leave
of absence and leave loading.
In the case of casual school teachers relieving in positions
of PP6, teacher in charge of a hospital school or teacher in charge of an
environmental education centre, subject to satisfying the requirements, the daily
rate of pay shall be as follows:
Table 3
|
|
Current rates
|
Rates on
|
Rates on and
|
Rates on and
|
Rates on and
|
|
|
(after increase
|
and from
|
from 1.7.2001*
|
from
|
from
|
|
|
by 4% by
|
1.1.2001*
|
|
1.7.2002*
|
1.1.2003*
|
|
|
Determination
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
on and from
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Per day ($)
|
|
Casual PP6, TIC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hospital School,
|
284.58
|
298.81
|
307.77
|
320.08
|
336.08
|
|
TIC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Environmental
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Education Centre
|
|
|
|
|
|
* From January
2001 the casual school teacher daily rates of pay are loaded by 5 per cent in
lieu of receiving sick leave, family and community service leave, special leave
of absence and leave loading.
Schedule 7 ‑ Other Part time Rates of Pay - Schools
|
Classification
|
Current rates
(after
|
Rates on and from
|
Rates on and from
|
Rates on and
|
|
|
increase by 4% by
|
1.7.2001
|
1.7.2002
|
from 1.1.2003
|
|
|
Determination on
and
|
|
|
|
|
|
from 3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Per day ($)
|
|
Teacher in Charge
|
13.86
|
14.28
|
14.85
|
15.59
|
|
Demonstration Schools
|
5.74
|
5.91
|
6.15
|
6.46
|
|
Teachers of classes of
|
7.84
|
8.08
|
8.40
|
8.82
|
|
students with disabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Per hour ($)
|
|
Needlework/Craft Teacher
|
24.72
|
25.46
|
26.48
|
27.80
|
Schedule 8 - Excess Travel and Compensation for Travel on
Official Business - School Teachers
Part A - Excess Travel
1. Definitions -
1.1 For the
purpose of Part A of this Schedule:
1.1.1 "Excess
travel" means, for the purposes of clauses 3 and 4, those distances:
(i) when
travelling from home to work and vice versa, that distance in excess of the
distance between the teacher's home and headquarters;
(ii) on any day
where the teacher is required during the day to travel from one school to
another.
1.1.2 "Headquarters"
means that school where the major part of the teacher's duties are performed;
or if the teacher is appointed to two schools on an equal time basis, then the
headquarters school shall be the school nearest to the teacher's place of
residence. Provided that where a
teacher is appointed to two schools on an equal time basis and has previously
had a school nominated as their headquarters school, that school shall be
retained as the headquarters while they continue to teach at that school,
notwithstanding a change to the other school.
1.1.3 "Teaching
Program" means all face to face teaching and other duties that take place
during the teacher's normal hours of schooling.
2. Teaching in
More Than One School -
2.1 Where in any
school a teacher, including a temporary teacher, cannot be, or has not been,
allocated a complete teaching load, the teacher may be timetabled to teach in
more than one school. Such teachers
include Teacher Librarians and Teachers of English as a Second Language. The following provisions in relation to
payment for excess travel time and for excess travel shall apply:
3. Payment for
Excess Travel Time -
3.1 If in order to
perform the teacher's approved teaching program, the teacher is required to
travel outside the teacher's required attendance hours for the particular
school from the teacher's home to school and/or from a school to the teacher's
home, the teacher shall be paid for excess time occupied in travelling, subject
to:
3.1.1 There shall be
deducted from the teacher's travelling time on any one day the time normally
taken for the periodic journey from home to headquarters and return.
3.1.2 Periods of less
than one quarter of an hour on any one day shall be disregarded.
3.1.3 Travelling time
shall not include any period of travel between 11.00 pm on any one day and 7.30
am on the following day when the teacher has travelled overnight and sleeping
facilities have been provided for the teacher.
3.1.4 Travelling time
shall be calculated by reference to the time that might reasonably have been
taken by the use of the most practical and economic means of transport.
3.1.5 No time spent
in performing duties shall be counted as travelling time.
3.1.6 The teacher is
otherwise not compensated for excess travelling time by way of allowance or
time off in lieu.
3.2 Payment for
excess travelling time shall be at the teacher's ordinary rate of pay on an
hourly basis, calculated as follows:
Annual Salary x 7 x
1
365 30
3.3 Teachers who
are in receipt of a salary in excess of the rate applicable to the eleventh
step of the common incremental salary scale set out in Schedule 1, shall be
paid travelling time calculated at the rate applicable to the abovementioned
eleventh step.
4. Payment for
Excess Travel -
4.1 All travelling
costs reasonably incurred because of excess travel for the use of a private
motor vehicle shall be paid on the basis of cents per kilometre at two rates as
follows:
4.1.1 up to 8,000 km
per annum - 62.5 cents per km;
4.1.2 over 8,000 km
per annum - 22.2 cents per km.
Provided that these rates shall be adjusted in accordance
with the rates contained at clause 12(vi)(d) and Table 1 of Part B of the Crown
Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment 1997) Award published 24
April 1998 (304 I.G. 570), as varied, or its successor as amended from time to
time or in accordance with the rates as approved from time to time by the
Director General of the Premier’s Department.
4.2 For the
purposes of payment under this subclause, excess travel on any day where the
teacher is required during the day to travel from one school to another, shall
be determined in accordance with the provisions of subclauses 4.1 to 4.8
inclusive.
4.3 On days when a
teacher is required to travel on official business and travels to and from
home, whether or not the teacher visits headquarters, a deduction shall be made
from the total distance travelled from home to home as follows:
|
Distance Home to
Headquarters (One Way)
|
Deduction
|
|
Kilometres
|
Kilometres
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
2
|
2
|
|
3
|
3
|
|
4
|
4
|
|
5
|
5
|
|
6
|
6
|
|
7
|
7
|
|
8
|
8
|
|
9
|
9
|
|
10
|
10
|
|
11-29
|
10
|
|
30 or more
|
10
|
|
|
plus 2 km for each
km above 29 km from home to headquarters.
|
4.4 Provided that
when the above deduction in subclause 4.3 has been effected, the teacher shall
add to the number of kilometres claimed the kilometres shown in the follow
schedule:
|
Home to
Headquarters (One Way)
|
Add
|
|
Kilometres
|
Kilometres
|
|
29-35
|
1
|
|
36-40
|
2
|
|
41-45
|
3
|
|
46-50
|
4
|
|
51-55
|
5
|
|
56-60
|
6
|
|
61-65
|
7
|
|
66 and over
|
8
|
4.5 This daily
deduction discounts the normal one way distance travelled from home to
headquarters for which teachers shall not be paid.
4.6 Where a
teacher is on duty at their headquarters on a particular day and the teacher
elects to travel to the headquarters in their private motor vehicle, no payment
shall be made for such travel.
4.6.1 If, on such a
day, the teacher is directed to travel from their headquarters in an emergency
situation, the teacher may be granted approval to use their own motor vehicle
and claim the normal kilometre rate for the distance from headquarters to the
emergency centre and return.
4.6.2 Where a teacher
has approval to use their private motor vehicle on official business and is
directed to have the vehicle at headquarters on each day, or particular days,
in order to have available a ready means of transport, payment shall be made
for the distance from home to headquarters and return for each day of duty the
car is required to be available (on official business), less the daily
deduction.
4.7 A claim for
travel allowance cannot be made where the headquarters and another centre
visited are on the same or adjacent sites.
4.8 The daily
deduction is not applied where a teacher is required to use their private motor
vehicle from their home after working hours on official business or when the
teacher is required to stay away from home overnight on official business.
Part B - Compensation for Travel on Official Business
1. Definitions -
1.1 For the
purpose of Part B of this Schedule:
1.1.1 "Headquarters"
for a teacher means the school, college or administrative centre nominated by
the Director-General for the particular teacher.
1.1.2 "TAFE
Location" means a college, campus, institute or other work place.
1.1.3 "Teacher"
means a permanent or temporary teacher employed in the Education Teaching
Service, but does not mean, unless otherwise specified, a casual teacher.
"Teacher" includes Consultants, District Guidance
Officers (DGOs), School Counsellors, Itinerant Teachers (teachers of the
behaviourally disordered, the visually impaired, the hearing impaired),
Distance Education Centre/School Teachers, Home School Liaison Officers (HSLO),
Access School Teachers, District Relief Teachers, Outreach Teachers, Pre School
Teachers, Support Teachers Intensive Reading, Careers Advisers, Early
Intervention Teachers, Violence Program Teachers, Languages Other Than English
Teachers (LOTE), Support Teachers Learning Difficulties (STLDs), Early Student
Support Program Teachers (ESSP), teachers programmed to teach in a school and a
TAFE location and includes any equivalent classifications thereto so long as
their work patterns remain unchanged.
2. Except where
authorised, teachers are responsible for meeting costs incurred in travel
between their residence and usual place of work.
3. Teachers may
be authorised to use their private vehicle for travel on official business in
the performance of their normal duties where other modes of travel are
unsuitable or unavailable.
3.1 Payment, on a
case by case basis, shall be considered by the Department for private motor
vehicle usage by casual teachers who relieve in a position as identified in
subclause 1.1.3 and who are required and authorised to use their private motor
vehicle in the performance of their relieving duties.
4. The use of a
teacher's private motor vehicle on official business is not mandatory.
5. Official
Business Rate -
5.1 The official
business rate is payable where the use of a teacher's private motor vehicle on official
business is authorised and the teacher is required to travel on official
business using their motor vehicle on a regular basis of at least once per week
throughout the school year or travel a minimum of 400 kilometres during the
school year, except where:
5.1.1 an official
vehicle is available;
5.1.2 for all or
specific days of travel, public transport is obviously available, suitable, and
does not result in a loss of the teacher's professional time and or restriction
in the performance of the teacher's duties and professional responsibilities.
5.2 Where a
teacher commences duty other than at the start of the school year the minimum
period of 400 kilometres to be travelled, as provided by subclause 5.1 above,
shall be adjusted proportionately.
5.3 The rate paid
is that specified at clause 9 of this schedule.
6. Specified
Journey Rate-
6.1 The specified
journey rate is payable to teachers who are authorised to use their private
motor vehicle to travel on official business intermittently as opposed to
regular use (as provided by clause 5 of this Schedule) for which the official
business rate is paid, except where:
6.1.1 an official
vehicle is available;
6.1.2 for all or
specific days of travel, public transport is obviously available, suitable, and
does not result in a loss of the teacher's professional time and/or restriction
in the performance of the teacher's duties and professional responsibilities.
6.2 In
circumstances where teachers are not authorised for reimbursement of travel
expenses at the official business rate, they may be given approval to use their
private vehicle on official business at the specified journey rate, including
travel to attend staff development courses, selection committee interviews,
GREAT appeals and hearings.
6.3 The rate paid
is that specified at clause 9 of this schedule.
7. Payment of 2
700 cc or more Motor Vehicle Rate -
7.1 Where the
teacher's normal duties are performed within the Sydney Region (as defined by
the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning) the maximum per kilometre rate
payable shall be the 1 600 to 2 700 cc rate.
7.2 Where the
official travel, in whole or in part, is outside the Sydney Region,
consideration shall be given to payment of the over 2 700 cc rate in respect of
a vehicle with an engine capacity above 2 700 cc. Such consideration shall be related to the total annual distance
travelled by the teacher on official business, the terrain and other factors
advanced by the teacher as relevant.
7.3 Provided that
the provisions of subclauses 7.1 and 7.2 above shall not apply to teachers who
have an existing approval for payment of the over 2 700 cc rate arising from
clause 4 (b) (i) of Industrial Agreement 7036 of 1983.
8. Daily
Deduction -
8.1 On days when a
teacher is required to travel on official business and travels to and from
home, whether or not the teacher visits headquarters, a deduction shall be made
from the total distance travelled from home to home as follows:
|
Distance Home to
Headquarters (One Way)
|
Deduction
|
|
Kilometres
|
Kilometres
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
2
|
2
|
|
3
|
3
|
|
4
|
4
|
|
5
|
5
|
|
6
|
6
|
|
7
|
7
|
|
8
|
8
|
|
9
|
9
|
|
10
|
10
|
|
11-29
|
10
|
|
30 or more
|
10
|
|
|
plus 2 km for each
km above 29 km from
|
|
|
home to
headquarters.
|
8.2 Provided that
when the above deduction in subclause 8.1 has been effected, the teacher shall
add to the number of kilometres claimed the kilometres shown in the following
schedule:
|
Home to
Headquarters (One Way)
|
Add
|
|
Kilometres
|
Kilometres
|
|
29-35
|
1
|
|
36-40
|
2
|
|
41-45
|
3
|
|
46-50
|
4
|
|
51-55
|
5
|
|
56-60
|
6
|
|
61-65
|
7
|
|
66 and over
|
8
|
8.3 This daily
deduction discounts the normal one way distance travelled from home to
headquarters for which teachers shall not be paid.
8.4 Where a
teacher is on duty at their headquarters on a particular day and the teacher
elects to travel to the headquarters in their private motor vehicle, no payment
shall be made for such travel.
8.5 If, on such a
day, the teacher is directed to travel from their headquarters in an emergency
situation, the teacher may be granted approval to use their own motor vehicle
and claim the normal kilometre rate for the distance from headquarters to the
emergency centre and return.
8.6 Where a
teacher has approval to use their private motor vehicle on official business
and is directed to have the vehicle at headquarters on each day, or particular
days, in order to have available a ready means of transport, payment shall be
made for the distance from home to headquarters and return for each day of duty
the car is required to be available (on official business), less the daily
deduction.
8.7 A claim for
travel allowance cannot be made where the headquarters and another centre
visited are on the same or adjacent sites.
8.8 The daily
deduction is not applied where a teacher is required to use their private motor
vehicle from their home after working hours on official business or when the
teacher is required to stay away from home overnight on official business.
9. Official
Business and Specified Journey Rates -
|
Clause of Schedule
|
Rate/Vehicle Engine
Capacity
|
Cents Per Km
|
|
which applies
|
|
|
|
5
|
Official Business Rate
|
0 - 8,000 km per
|
8,001 km or
|
|
|
|
annum
|
more per annum
|
|
|
Below 1600 cc
|
44.8
|
18.7
|
|
|
1600 - 2700 cc
|
62.5
|
22.2
|
|
|
Above 2700 cc
|
67.2
|
23.9
|
|
6
|
Specified Journey
Rate
|
|
|
|
Below 1600 cc
|
18.7
|
|
|
1600 - 2700 cc
|
22.2
|
|
|
Above 2700 cc
|
23.9
|
Provided that these rates shall be adjusted in accordance
with the rates contained at clause 12(vi)(d) and Table 1 of Part B of the Crown
Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment 1997) Award published 24
April 1998 (304 I.G. 570) or its successor as amended from time to time or in
accordance with the rates as approved from time to time by the Director-General
of the Premier’s Department.
Schedule 9 - Special Conditions Covering Home School Liaison
Officers
and Aboriginal Student Liaison Officers
Qualifications and Appointments -
1. Officers who
are employed as teachers and persons who, in the opinion of the
Director-General, have the appropriate qualifications to be employed as
teachers shall be eligible to apply for appointment as home school liaison
officers.
2. Officers who
are employed as teachers and persons who, in the opinion of the
Director-General, have the appropriate qualifications and or experience to be
appointed as Aboriginal student liaison officers shall be eligible to apply for
temporary appointment as Aboriginal student liaison officers.
3. A successful
applicant for appointment to a vacant position of home school liaison officer
or Aboriginal student liaison officer shall, subject to Sections 50 and 51 of
the Teaching Services Act 1980, be
temporarily appointed to a specified location and for a specified period
determined by the Director-General.
Duties -
4. Home school
liaison officers and Aboriginal student liaison officers shall be responsible
for those duties as determined by the Director-General and shall be directly
responsible to an officer or such other person(s) as determined by the
Director-General.
Training -
5. Successful
applicants for the position of home school liaison officer or Aboriginal
student liaison officer shall, following temporary appointment to specified
positions or locations, be required as part of their duties to undergo a course
of training of a nature and for a period prescribed by the Director-General.
6. Home school
liaison officers and Aboriginal student liaison officers whose homes are 100
kms or more from the training course centre shall be eligible for financial
assistance as provided by the Department towards the cost of temporary
accommodation used while on the course and for travel between their homes in
New South Wales and the course at the beginning and end of the course and on
one weekend during the course. In
addition, travel costs in excess of those for daily travel to the course
incurred in attending at locations other than the course centre, on program
requirements, shall be reimbursed.
Salaries -
Home School Liaison Officers -
7. On temporary
appointment as a home school liaison officer a teacher shall continue to
receive their current substantive teaching salary and shall continue to
progress on the appropriate step on the common incremental salary scale on
their normal teaching incremental date subject to clause 5, Salary Progression
and Maintenance and clause 26, Calculation of Service of this award. A person not being an officer shall on
appointment as a home school liaison officer be paid an annual salary according
to their qualifications and status as if they were appointed as a teacher
covered by the award and shall progress on the common incremental salary scale
on an incremental date determined by the date of their appointment as a home
school liaison officer subject to clause 5, Salary Progression and Maintenance
and clause 26, Calculation of Service of this award.
Aboriginal Student Liaison Officers -
8. Minimum
salaries on commencement of employment and progression thereafter under the
common incremental salary scale as set out in Schedule 1 of this award are
determined as follows:
Aboriginal student liaison officers who are:
Non-graduates - step 3
Graduates without teacher training - step 4
Graduates with teacher training - step 5
Graduates with five years of training - step 6
Allowances and Additional Leave -
9. Overtime
shall not be paid for hours worked in excess of seven hours per day and no
compensatory leave shall be allowed for evening, Saturday or Sunday work. In addition, no compensation shall be
allowed for time spent in travelling.
10. To compensate
for all incidents of employment, including hours worked in excess of seven
hours on any day, evening, Saturday or Sunday, and time spent in travelling,
home school liaison officers and Aboriginal student liaison officers shall
receive:
10.1 an allowance as
provided for in paragraph 4.2.1 of clause 4, Allowances, and Schedule 2; and
10.2 six weeks leave
per annum in addition to the four weeks annual recreation leave provided in
clause 13 of this schedule. The six
weeks leave and the four weeks annual recreation leave shall be taken during
school vacation periods unless the performance of work required to be done
during a school vacation(s) necessitates part of the ten weeks leave to be
taken at other time(s) as approved by the Director-General.
Hours and Conditions -
11. Subject to the
special conditions contained in this schedule, home school liaison officers and
Aboriginal student liaison officers shall enjoy the hours and conditions of
employment applying to other non-school based teaching service personnel.
12. The ordinary
hours of work, exclusive of meal times, shall be 35 per week to be worked
Monday to Friday inclusive and to commence on such days at or after 8.00 am and
conclude on or before 6.00 pm. Provided
that, where required, a home school liaison officer or Aboriginal student
liaison officer shall be required to work beyond these normal hours on weekdays
and to work on weekends.
13. Annual
recreation leave shall accrue at the rate of four weeks per year.
14. Notwithstanding
that an officer, on appointment as a home school liaison officer or Aboriginal
student liaison officer, may not comply with the service requirement included
in the definition of a "transferred officer" contained in
Determination No. 132, titled the Transferred Officers Compensation
Determination or its successor determination, but otherwise finds it necessary
to move their residence as a consequence of the appointment, the officer shall
be deemed a transferred officer for the purposes of Determination No. 132 or
its successor determination.
15. An officer
appointed as a home school liaison officer is eligible to apply for and accept
appointment to any advertised Education Teaching Service position.
Subsequent Employment -
Home School Liaison Officers -
16. An officer
appointed as a home school liaison officer shall, on completion of the period
of the appointment, be eligible and required to transfer to a teaching
position.
17. A person other
than an officer appointed as a home school liaison officer shall, on completion
of the period of their appointment, be appointed, pursuant to Section 47 of the
Teaching Services Act as a permanent teacher.
Provided that if the person holds a Teachers Certificate this permanent
appointment shall not be probationary as provided for in Section 48 of the
Teaching Services Act. Provided further
that all persons appointed as home school liaison officers shall be given a
permanent appointment as a teacher as provided for above in priority to all
other persons on any teacher employment waiting list. Provided always that the home school liaison officer may elect to
accept a temporary appointment as a teacher.
Aboriginal Student Liaison Officers -
18. An officer
appointed as an Aboriginal student liaison officer shall, on completion of the
period of the appointment, be eligible and required to transfer to an
appropriate teaching service position.
Schedule 10 - Special Conditions Covering Teachers at
Residential Agricultural High Schools
1. Special
Conditions -
1.1 The principal,
following consultation with a representative nominated by the staff in a
residential agricultural high school, shall prepare detailed information on the
duties of teachers and the conditions of employment in the school. This information shall include rostered duty
requirements, residential requirements and other information that shall assist
both new appointments and teachers who may be transferred to the school by the
Director-General.
1.2 All new
teachers at the schools shall be supplied with a copy of this information
before accepting appointment to the school.
2. All new
vacant positions shall be deemed to be special fitness positions, provided that
the Director-General shall retain the right to fill any vacant positions by way
of transfer or such other manner as considered appropriate.
3. Subject to
the availability of accommodation, all teachers appointed to vacant positions
in the schools shall be required to reside on the school site for a minimum
period of three years.
4. Following the
minimum period referred to in clause 3 of this schedule, and subject to the
needs of the school, teachers may apply for a further residence on-site for
another two year period. Thereafter a teacher may seek an extension of
residency and tenure beyond this two year period.
5. Initial
appointment of residential teachers and reappointment of residential teachers
to the school after the first or second period of residence on the school site
shall be made on an annual basis at the discretion of the principal, with due
regard to the needs of the school.
6. A library
supervisor shall be appointed to each school for a period of up to 20 hours per
week during the school term to supervise the school library at nights and on
weekends.
In selecting a library supervisor the principal shall, as he
or she considers appropriate, give priority to employing trained teachers.
7. There shall
be two head teachers (welfare) appointed to each school on the basis of special
fitness.
8. The duties of
the head teachers (welfare) shall include:
8.1 undertaking
rostered supervision duty;
8.2 responsibility
for the organisation and implementation of all aspects of residential
supervision within the school;
8.3 implementation
of student supervision rosters;
8.4 supervision of
teachers on roster duty;
8.5 responsibility
for school welfare programs.
9. At each
school, one teacher in charge of residential supervision shall be appointed by
the principal (consistent with subclause 2.53 of clause 2, Dictionary of the
award) to receive the Teacher in Charge of Residential Supervision Allowance as
provided for in paragraph 4.5.3 of clause 4, Allowances, and Schedule 2.
10. Educational
programs shall be provided for all students at the school, up to and including
the last school day of all four school terms.
11. All teachers,
including head teachers, but excluding the principal and deputy principal
appointed to the school, shall be required to perform, on a roster basis, out
of normal teaching hours supervision of students as follows:
11.1 Teachers on a
full rostered program shall be required to undertake one rostered duty in every
ten days during the designated school year.
11.2 Where the
school has more non-resident staff than required to fill the duty roster, staff
may be rotated onto the duty roster over a twelve month period to ensure
rostered duty is shared by the entire staff and shall be paid the rostered
supervision allowance on a pro rata basis.
11.3 There should
be, as far as possible, a gender balance related to the needs of the school
within the staff roster. Where this is
not possible the principal, in consultation with the staff, shall determine the
most appropriate staffing roster.
11.4 The size and
composition of rostered duty teams shall be decided by the principal following
consultation with staff at the school.
To facilitate a one in ten days roster of a five person duty team,
casual teachers or other staff may be employed by the principal where
insufficient full time teachers are available, to make up the necessary duty
teams.
11.5 Teachers on
rostered supervision duty shall be provided with free meals at the school for
the duration of their rostered duty.
11.6 Staff on
rostered duty shall be entitled to a half hour break during their duty on week
days and a one hour break during their duty on weekend days. Such breaks shall be arranged by those
rostered on duty to ensure that each person receives a break unless
extraordinary circumstances or the exigencies of the school on a particular day
makes this impractical. There shall be
no requirement to engage casual labour as a result of staff taking such
breaks.
12. A rostered
supervision allowance as provided for in paragraph 4.5.1 of clause 4,
Allowances, and Schedule 2 shall be paid on the basis that:
12.1 Teachers at the
school are required to undertake rostered duties on the basis of one duty every
ten days during the school year.
12.2 Rostered
supervision duty for all teachers on the duty team (whether resident or
non-resident) involves an on call period following the conclusion of active
duty. This on call period shall operate
from approximately 11.00 pm to 7.00 am.
The on call duty may require, where accommodation is available, that any
member of a duty team stay overnight on the school site.
12.3 During the on
call period there shall be a minimum of two teachers (excluding the principal
and deputy principal but including at least one member of the rostered duty
team) in residence at the school on each night during the school year to
respond to emergencies and any supervisory requirements as necessary. This would normally include one residential
member of the rostered duty team and one other member of the residential
staff. If a member of the residential
staff is not available, then a non-residential member of staff shall remain
on-site. All other members of the duty
team rostered on any day shall, however, remain on call.
12.4 Teachers who
are absent on leave for one term or more shall lose a pro rata proportion of
the rostered supervision allowance.
Similarly, a teacher who commences duty at the school other than in the
first week of Term one shall be paid the rostered supervision allowance on a
pro rata basis on the amount of supervision actually performed in that school
year.
12.5 Should a
teacher be sick on any day on which a rostered duty falls, then for the first
two such days in any year the teacher shall be entitled to be paid.
13. An additional
allowance based on the average rate for a rostered duty shall be paid to three
volunteer teachers at the school to supervise students returning following the
Christmas, Terms one, two and three vacations and compulsory leave weekends. This duty shall commence from 3.00 pm on the
day preceding the commencement of school until 7.00 am the next day.
14. The head
teacher (welfare) shall be paid in addition to the rostered supervision
allowance a residential supervision allowance as provided for in paragraph
4.5.2 of clause 4, Allowances, and Schedule 2.
15. Teacher
trained library supervisors shall be remunerated at an hourly casual teacher
rate. The hourly casual teacher rate
shall be calculated on the basis of the daily casual teacher in schools rate
divided by six. This rate is loaded to
be inclusive of sick leave, family and community service leave, special leave
and leave loading.
16. The Department
shall investigate providing:
16.1 Further
accommodation for teaching staff at the schools. In the event of the head teacher (welfare) being single,
accommodation to the level provided to other single resident teachers shall be
provided.
16.2 Subject to the
availability of funds, additional married accommodation at the schools.
17. Teachers in
residential accommodation on-site in the school shall be provided with free
board and lodging, including laundry and utilities.
18. All teachers
in other accommodation (including executive staff) shall be required to clean
their accommodation and undertake their own laundry and pay appropriate rental
where payment of rental presently applies.
TAFE SECTION
38. Contribution to
Institute Output Requirements
38.1 Teachers, adult
literacy officers, head teachers and special program coordinators in TAFE shall
contribute to the achievement of Institute output requirements as measured in
Annual Student Contact Hours (ASCH), provided that Institutes maintain their
commitment to providing educationally and vocationally disadvantaged groups
with access to technical and further educational services, including a range of
appropriate specialised services, in line with the objectives of the TAFE Commission Act.
38.2 The strategies
detailed in Schedule 13 shall be implemented in TAFE in order to maximise
Annual Student Contact Hours.
38.3 The parties
agree to consult on any variations to State and Commonwealth funding authority
requirements in relation to the use of ASCH as a measure of institute output.
39. Attendance -
Teachers and Counsellors
39.1 The standard
attendance hours of:
39.1.1 teachers, head
teachers, special program coordinators and adult literacy officers, shall be 30
hours per week;
39.1.2 TAFE
counsellors, advanced skills counsellors and senior counsellors, shall be 35
hours per week.
39.2 The daily span
of working hours in colleges/campuses for officers and employees under this
award is between 6.00 am and 10.00 pm on Monday to Saturday, inclusive.
Teaching and related duties hours worked by teachers should, unless otherwise
unavoidable or by agreement between a teacher and their immediate manager, be
continuous.
39.3 All full time
officers shall be required to attend college five days per week on Monday to
Friday, inclusive. However, where the
course program requires, TAFE teachers, head teachers, special program
coordinators, adult literacy officers, counsellors, senior counsellors and
advanced skills counsellors:
39.3.1 may be required
to work on any five days from Monday to Saturday inclusive as part of their
normal program, although they may meet weekly attendance requirements in four
days per week;
39.3.2 who are required
as part of their normal program to work on a Saturday shall, if they so
request, be entitled to have two consecutive days off in the following week.
40. Duties of
Teachers
40.1 For the purpose
of this clause teacher includes, head teacher, special program coordinator and
adult literacy officer.
40.2 Teachers
perform a broad range of duties that include the following activities:
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Direct Teaching Activities
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Duties Related to Teaching
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Direct teaching activities include but
are not
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Duties related to
teaching include but are not
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limited to:
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limited to:
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· face to face teaching in any
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· preparation;
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environment or
setting, including but not
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· marking;
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limited to:
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· support and advice to clients;
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- classrooms,
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· enrolment and administration;
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- workshops,
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· course, curriculum and program
development and
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- industry,
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review;
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- in
the field;
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· industry and community liaison and
promotion;
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· training and professional
development;
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· distance mode and online;
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· development of learning materials;
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· research;
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· workplace training and
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· attendance at staff meetings;
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assessment.
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· recognition of prior learning;
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· workplace consultancy and advisory
services;
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· skills analysis and audit;
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· work placement coordination and
supervision;
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· leading approved staff development
activities;
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· student selection;
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· course coordination as specified
in curriculum
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documents.
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40.3 Head teachers
also perform administrative duties and special program coordinators and adult
literacy officers perform administrative and coordination duties.
41. Allocation of
Duties
41.1 The direct
teaching or counselling component of:
41.1.1 full time teachers
shall be 20 hours per week;
41.1.2 head teachers
shall be ten or 14 hours per week as determined by the Managing Director;
41.1.3 adult literacy
officers shall be nine hours per week;
41.1.4 TAFE counsellors
and advanced skills counsellors shall be 20 hours per week;
41.1.5 senior
counsellors shall be 14 hours per week;
41.1.6 special program
coordinators shall be six hours per week or 216 hours per annum;
provided that all teachers, special program coordinators and
adult literacy officers are entitled, pursuant to clause 46, Professional
Development - TAFE Teachers, to a reduction in their direct teaching time by
the requisite amount of professional development time.
41.2 TAFE teachers
shall be required to teach 19 hours per week direct teaching including face to
face teaching in any environment or setting including, but not limited to,
classrooms, workshops, industry, in the field, by distance mode and online, and
including workplace training and assessment.
41.3 only at the
discretion of the institute director (or nominee) shall any reduction in the
teaching load be permitted. If any such
reduction is permitted, the teacher shall not also be paid for excess hours.
41.4 Those teachers
whose classes finish prior to the end of the TAFE Year, semester or term due to
final examination shall continue to perform other duties. Such duties are to be agreed between the
teacher and their immediate manager.
41.5 The annual hour
equivalents of the direct teaching activities, related duties, administrative
and coordination duties and annual weeks of attendance of teachers, adult
literacy officers, head teachers and special program coordinators in TAFE shall
be as follows:
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Classification
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Direct
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Related
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Related
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Administrative
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Coordination
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Total
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Annual
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teaching
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duties -
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duties
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duties
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&
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annual
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weeks of
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(annual
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during
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hours
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(annual
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administrative
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hours
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attendance
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equivalent
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teaching
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during the
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equivalent
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duties (annual
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hours) #
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weeks
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five non
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hours)
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equivalent
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(annual
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teaching
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hours)F
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equivalent
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weeks
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hours)
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(annual
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equivalent
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hours)
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Teachers
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720
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360
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150
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-
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-
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1230
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41
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Adult
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324
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216
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150
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-
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540
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1230
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41
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literacy
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officers
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Special
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216
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108
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150
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-
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786
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1260
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42
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program
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coordinators
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other than
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consultants
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for the
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disabled
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Special
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216
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108
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150
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-
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756
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1230
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41
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program
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coordinators
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- Consultants
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for the
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disabled
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Head
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504
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252
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150
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324
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-
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1230
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41
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teachers band
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1
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Head
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360
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180
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150
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540
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-
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1230
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41
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teachers band
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2*
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* Includes head teachers band 1 supervising > 150
weighted hours per week
# Includes 36 hours professional development.
F Coordination and
Administrative duties for adult literacy officers and special program
coordinators
42. Duties Related to
Teaching
42.1 For the purpose
of this clause teacher includes head teacher, adult literacy officer and
special program coordinator.
42.2 In addition to
direct teaching activities teachers shall be entitled to attend to duties
related to teaching for 30 minutes for each hour of teaching that forms part of
their approved program, except that adult literacy officers shall be entitled
to six hours of related duties time for each week of teaching.
42.3 Where a teacher
is given a teaching release, each hour of teaching release shall involve a 30
minute reduction in the teacher's related duties time.
42.4 Duties related
to teaching shall also be undertaken during the five non teaching weeks per
annum.
42.5 Teachers shall
continue, in consultation with their immediate manager, to determine duties
that shall be conducted during related duties time.
43. Administrative
Duties
43.1 The
administrative component of a head teacher shall be:
43.1.1 nine hours per
week for a head teacher band 1 supervising up to 150 weighted teaching hours
per week;
43.1.2 15 hours per
week for a head teacher band 1 supervising more than 150 weighted teaching
hours per week; and
43.1.3 15 hours per
week for a head teacher band 2.
44. Averaging
44.1 For the purpose
of this clause, teacher includes head teachers.
44.2 In
colleges/campuses where student attendance varies from the standard semester or
yearly pattern, teachers may average their direct teaching component as set out
in subclause 41.1 of clause 41, Allocation of Duties, over fixed periods of up
to one year determined in advance in accordance with the following provisions.
44.2.1 Teachers may,
within the fixed averaging period be allocated teaching up to five hours above
their direct teaching component, provided that the direct teaching component is
to balance over the averaging period.
44.2.2 The direct
teaching component to related duties ratio is to be maintained but may be
averaged over the fixed averaging period, provided that the standard attendance
of 30 hours per week is met.
44.2.3 Within the fixed
averaging period, any direct teaching undertaken which exceeds five hours above
the teacher's weekly direct teaching component as set out in subclause 41.1 of
the said clause 41, Allocation of Duties, shall be paid in accordance with
clause 51, Excess Teaching Hours.
44.2.4 Any teaching
undertaken, which exceeds at the end of the fixed averaging period a teacher's
direct teaching component, shall be paid as excess hours. Excess teaching hours claimed in accordance
with paragraph 44.2.3 of this subclause cannot be included in determining
teaching hours for the purpose of this paragraph.
44.2.5 Except for hours
accrued in accordance with the said paragraph 44.2.3, where an averaging
teaching program is worked, payment for excess hours will be determined and
paid at the end of the fixed averaging period or semester whichever is the
lesser in accordance with clause 51, Excess Teaching Hours.
44.3 A teacher may
average their direct teaching component over periods of less than one year
consistent with subclause 44.2 of this clause.
44.4 The
administrative component of a head teacher’s approved program must be worked as
a consistent number of hours on a weekly basis within any year. Averaging of the administrative component of
the standard attendance hours is not permitted.
45. Accumulating
Program
45.1 For the purpose
of this subclause, teacher includes head teacher.
45.2 By agreement
between the teachers and their immediate manager, and subject to TAFE’s needs,
teachers may elect to teach up to a maximum of five hours above their direct
teaching component over one term or up to twelve weeks.
45.3 Teachers may
not be directed to teach an accumulating program.
45.4 Regular or
repetitive use of accumulating programs for periods over twelve weeks should be
avoided. Where the need arises,
accumulating hours beyond that period is also voluntary.
45.5 When an
accumulating program is chosen, teachers may elect on a once per term basis to
accumulate hours or be paid fortnightly for the teaching hours above twenty.
45.6 Where teachers
elect to accumulate hours, they may be paid at the end of the term or accrue
excess hours into the next term.
45.7 Where an
election to accumulate hours is made, teachers in consultation with their
immediate manager should, in the context of a pre planned program, determine in
advance when the time in lieu is to be taken.
45.8 If payment is
elected, it shall be in accordance with clause 51, Excess Teaching Hours.
45.9 By the end of
the TAFE year all excess hours must be taken as time in lieu or paid out.
45.10 The teaching
component to related duties ratio of 2:1 is to be maintained for the first
twenty hours of teaching.
45.11 Teachers shall
be required to attend for 41 weeks per annum unless accumulated hours have been
banked to be taken as time in lieu.
46. Professional
Development - TAFE Teachers
46.1 For the
purposes of this clause, teacher includes head teachers, special program
coordinators and adult literacy officers.
46.2 An approved
program for all teachers shall include professional development on the
following basis:
46.2.1 teachers
undertaking teacher training shall have two hours per teaching week
professional development in their first two years of service;
46.2.2 teachers who are
teacher trained on recruitment shall have two hours professional development
per teaching week in their first year of service; and
46.2.3 all other
teachers shall have one hour of professional development per teaching week and
may elect to use their professional development time on a weekly basis or to
accrue this time over a period of up to twelve weeks.
46.3 The parties
shall encourage teachers to accumulate their professional development time up
to a maximum of twelve hours. This
shall facilitate teachers engaging in more meaningful accredited professional
development programs. This shall not
prevent teachers electing to take their professional development time on a
weekly basis.
46.4 The related
duties time which would normally accrue to the hour(s) of teaching replaced by
professional development shall continue to be used for teaching related duties.
46.5 The professional
development allocation, which is provided by agreement between the parties, is
in recognition of the potential value of professional development and:
46.5.1 is available for
professional experience;
46.5.2 is available for
self initiated activities;
46.5.3 shall be in
addition to other professional development time/activities already provided by
TAFE; and
46.5.4 teachers are
encouraged to share their experiences with other teachers.
47. TAFE Year
47.1 For the purpose
of this clause, teacher includes head teacher.
47.2 Institutes
shall operate for a period of 50 weeks in a calendar year. There shall be a two week close down period
in colleges/campuses over the Christmas and New Year period. The dates of the close down period shall be
determined by the Managing Director or delegate.
47.3 Teachers
working TAFE Year programs shall undertake teaching duties for 36 weeks,
non-teaching duties for five weeks and are to receive the same number of public
holidays and vacation days in the TAFE Year as teachers who are working the
standard educational year.
47.4 Teachers may
not be directed to teach more than twelve consecutive weeks without taking a
vacation break or may not elect to teach more than eighteen consecutive weeks
without taking a vacation break.
47.5 Staffing of
courses delivered outside the standard educational year shall be based on an
essentially consultative procedure.
47.6 Managers of the
relevant sections shall:
47.6.1 at the first
instance, seek volunteers from within the college/campus to teach the
course. If suitably qualified full time
teachers from within the college/campus are available and they wish to make
alternative vacation arrangements, the college/campus should introduce an equitable
system of selecting volunteer teachers on a rotation basis;
47.6.2 if no suitable
full time teachers within the college/campus are available, then offers to
teach courses may be extended to full time teachers at other colleges/campuses;
47.6.3 failing the
above, an offer could then be made to suitable part time casual teachers;
47.6.4 in the event
that all of the above avenues are exhausted, an institute manager may direct a
full time teacher to undertake the program, provided that a teacher directed to
teach in a TAFE Year program in the midsummer vacation shall not be directed to
teach a TAFE Year program in the following midsummer vacation.
47.7 Deferred
vacation leave shall be arranged on an agreed basis between the teacher and the
college management, taking into account the educational programs in the
college/campus, particularly in the first two weeks of the standard educational
year, and the needs of the teacher.
47.8 Deferred
vacation leave shall be taken, whenever possible, in full weekly blocks, each
beginning Monday and ending on Friday.
47.9 Deferred
vacation leave is to be cleared within twelve months of the conclusion of the
TAFE Year activity and cannot be accumulated and carried over into subsequent
years.
47.10 The TAFE Year
provisions shall apply to teachers who are required to attend college/campus
for student selection, programming, enrolment and other duties which can only
be done outside the standard educational year and which are essential to the
functioning of the section.
47.11 Teachers who
work up to three days in one block outside the standard educational year may
elect, once per TAFE Year, to be paid for this work in lieu of taking vacation
leave. Where a teacher elects to be so
paid, such payment shall be made at the rate for excess teaching as per clause
51, Excess Teaching Hours.
48. Additional One
Week
48.1 For the purpose
of this clause teacher includes head teacher.
48.2 By agreement
between teachers and their immediate manager, teachers may elect to attend up
to one week of their agreed non attendance period to meet TAFE’s needs.
48.3 Teachers may
elect to be paid for this work or to accumulate their hours.
48.4 Where an
election for payment is made, then such payment shall be at the rate prescribed
at clause 51, Excess Teaching Hours for excess teaching hours or at the part
time casual duties other than teaching rate for related duties.
48.5 Where teachers
elect to accumulate, such hours shall contribute to their bank of hours.
48.6 Where teaching
duties are undertaken, the hours shall accumulate as part of their total
teaching bank of hours.
48.7 Where related
duties are undertaken, these hours shall accumulate as part of the related
duties bank of hours.
48.8 Teachers, in
consultation with their immediate manager, should consider the provisions of
clause 47 TAFE Year, and this clause.
48.9 Teachers may
only attend one additional week per TAFE Year, whether the provisions of the
said clause 47 TAFE Year, or this clause are applied.
48.10 Where teachers
are directed to undertake duties in a vacation period, after the provisions of
subclause 47.6 of clause 47 TAFE Year have been followed, then only the
provisions of clause 47 TAFE Year shall apply.
48.11 Where teachers
volunteer to undertake duties in the vacation period, then either the
provisions of clause 47 TAFE Year or the provisions of this clause shall
apply.
49. Evening Work -
Counsellors
49.1 For the purpose
of this clause, counsellor includes senior counsellor and advanced skills
counsellor.
49.2 Counsellors
required to perform part of their counselling program after 5.30 pm as part of
their normal program shall be paid at a rate of 1.25 times their hourly salary
rate.
49.3 The formula for
calculating the hourly salary rates for a counsellor shall be:
Annual salary x
5 x 1
260.8929 1 35
50. Time Credit
50.1 For the
purposes of this clause, teacher includes head teacher and adult literacy
officer.
50.2 Teachers who
are required to perform direct teaching activities between 6.00 am and 7.30 am
Monday to Friday, 5.30 pm and 10.00 pm Monday to Friday and 6.00 am and 10.00
pm on Saturday as part of their approved program and not part of excess
teaching hours, shall have their direct teaching activities reduced by one hour
for every four hours of such teaching or pro rata, provided that:
50.2.1 where, as a
consequence of the operation of this subclause, a teacher's teaching load is
reduced by their attendance, the said teaching load shall be reduced by an
equivalent time but the teacher's total related duties time shall remain
unaltered;
50.2.2 subject to the
provisions of clause 44, Averaging, where, as a consequence of the operation of
this subclause, a teacher's direct teaching load is reduced, direct teaching
hours above the reduced load shall be deemed to be excess and paid at the
appropriate rate according to clause 51, Excess Teaching Hours, for the time at
which the hours are taught.
(i) A teacher may
choose to accumulate the excess teaching hours in accordance with the
provisions of clause 45, Accumulating Program.
50.3 Teachers who
are required to work during the hours prescribed at subclause 50.2, other than
direct teaching, including the following circumstances:
50.3.1 Related duties
(excluding meal breaks) which in one continuous period of time, extend beyond
5.30 pm and 10.00 pm or after 6.00 am and 7.30 am Monday to Friday and or
between 6.00 am and 10.00 pm Saturday, where a teacher is required to teach two
teaching sessions that are part of their approved program;
50.3.2 where head
teachers are directed to perform supervisory duties;
50.3.3 enrolment
duties;
as part of their approved program and not as part of excess
teaching hours, shall be paid at a rate of 1.25 times the hourly rate for the
teacher so engaged. The formula for
calculating the hourly rate of the teacher shall be:
Annual salary x 5 x
1
1 260.8929 30
51. Excess Teaching
Hours
51.1 For the purpose
of this clause, teacher includes head teacher and adult literacy officer.
51.2 Subject to the
provisions in clause 44, Averaging, excess teaching hours worked between 7.30
am and 5.30 pm Monday to Friday shall be paid at a rate equivalent to the part
time casual teaching duties rate of pay.
This rate shall be known as the excess teaching rate.
51.3 The formula for
calculating the excess teaching hourly rate for hours described in subclause
51.2 shall be:
Maximum
TAFE Teacher Salary x 5 x
1 x 1.3475
1 260.8929 30
51.4 Subject to the
provisions in clause 44, Averaging, excess teaching hours between 6.00 am and
7.30 am, Monday to Friday, 5.30 pm and 10.00 pm, Monday to Friday and 6.00 am
and 10.00 pm Saturday, shall be credited on the basis of five hours for every
four hours worked, or pro rata, and the hours so derived shall be paid according
to this clause.
51.5 Emergency Hours
-
51.5.1 Emergency excess
teaching hours occur when an unplanned absence of a teacher leads to another
teacher being given less than 24 hours notice to take a class.
51.5.2 Payment for
emergency excess teaching hours shall be made fortnightly at the appropriate
rate for the hours worked.
51.5.3 Emergency excess
teaching hours cannot be included in determining the direct teaching hours of
an averaging program.
51.6 The parties
agree that the use of excess teaching hours shall be discouraged.
52. Sunday Work/Night
Work
52.1 For the purpose
of this clause teacher includes head teacher and adult literacy officer.
52.2 That part of an
approved program required to be worked on Sunday or on other days between the
hours of 10.00 pm and 6.00 am shall be paid at the rate of double the hourly
rate of the teacher.
52.3 The formula for
calculating the hourly rate shall be:
Annual Salary x 5
x 1
1 260.8929 27
53. Qualifications
for Appointment
53.1 Except where
the Managing Director determines that special circumstances exist in relation
to a particular person which warrant that person’s appointment with a lesser
qualification or a shorter duration of vocational experience, the minimum
qualifications for appointment to positions are as follows:
53.1.1 Education
officer - appropriate degree or diploma from a higher education institution and
appropriate vocational and or industrial experience.
53.1.2 Teacher -
appropriate technical or professional qualifications plus from two to five
years, as appropriate, vocational and or industrial experience.
53.1.3 TAFE counsellor
- appropriate degree from a higher education institution and at least three
years study in psychology or other such study as the Managing Director deems
appropriate, plus two years appropriate vocational experience.
54. Working
Conditions - Education Officers and Related Employees
54.1 This clause
sets out the general conditions of employment for the following classifications
in TAFE - education officer, senior education officer, chief education officer,
principal education officer, curriculum manager, industry specialist, principal
officer, quality assurance coordinator, cluster manager, program manager,
Manager Education and Training Resource Centre.
54.2 They shall:
54.2.1 be employed on a
35 hours per week basis and may average their working hours, provided they work
420 hours every twelve weeks;
54.2.2 be entitled to
professional development/study time as per clause 55, Professional Development
- Education Officers, Curriculum Officers, Other Related Officers and
Counsellors.
54.3 In the context
of a pre planned program, managers and their employees shall negotiate their
working arrangements, including their daily span of hours, so as to meet TAFE’s
and the individual's needs. Possible
working arrangements include:
54.3.1 the taking of
part, single or multiple days as time in lieu;
54.3.2 taking time in
lieu before 420 hours have been accumulated;
54.3.3 working a
standard 35 hour week.
54.4 Up to a maximum
of one week (35 hours) may be carried forward from one twelve week period to
the next.
54.5 Where employees
do not work the required 420 hours over the twelve week period, then an annual
leave debit shall be made to cover the shortfall.
54.6 Where agreed
working arrangements need to be reviewed this shall also be negotiated between
employees and their manager.
54.7 The band of
hours for employees not located in colleges/campuses shall be from 7.30 am to
9.00 pm Monday to Friday.
54.8 The band of
hours for employees located in colleges/campuses shall be from 6.00 am to 10.00
pm Monday to Saturday.
54.9 All full time
employees located in colleges/campuses shall be required to attend five days
per week unless the taking of time in lieu has been agreed.
55. Professional
Development - Education Officers, Related Employees and Counsellors
55.1 Permanent and
temporary education officers, related employees and counsellors shall have a
professional development program as follows:
55.1.1 retention of
their existing study time - for those employed by TAFE as at 31 January 1994;
or
55.1.2 ten working days
per annum which may be accumulated over six years up to a maximum of 60 working
days to undertake professional experience, work or study inside or outside the
TAFE system which is of demonstrated value to TAFE and/or the professional development
of the employee. This time may be taken
in minimum periods of one half day per week as negotiated with their immediate manager. The absence requires the approval of TAFE
and is subject to the operating needs of the unit.
56. Leave for TAFE
Teachers and Related Employees
56.1 Annual
Recreation Leave - All officers and temporary employees shall be entitled to a
minimum of 20 days recreation leave or pro rata where employed for periods less
than the equivalent full time.
56.2 Annual Leave
Loading - All officers and temporary employees shall be paid a loading of 17.5
per cent of their wage/salary for each week of the four weeks minimum annual
leave as provided for in subclause 56.1 for each twelve months of service, or
pro rata, on the basis of the employee’s ordinary salary rate.
56.3 Annual Leave
and Agreed Weeks of Non Attendance - teachers, counsellors and special program
coordinators:
56.3.1 Except where
provision is otherwise made in this award, all leave in excess of four weeks
shall be deemed to be in lieu of additional work and overtime.
56.3.2 In lieu of the
provisions under the Annual Holidays Act
1944, unless otherwise required by the Managing Director, officers and
temporary employees in the following classifications shall not be required to
attend their workplace for the number of weeks as set out in the following
schedule:
|
Salary Group
|
Classification
|
Annual Leave Weeks
|
Agreed Weeks
|
|
|
|
|
of Non
|
|
|
|
|
Attendance
|
|
Common Salary
|
Teacher
|
4
|
7
|
|
Scale
|
Adult Literacy Officer
|
4
|
7
|
|
|
TAFE Counsellor
|
4
|
3
|
|
|
Advanced Skills Counsellor
|
4
|
3
|
|
Promotion Salary
|
Head Teacher
|
4
|
7
|
|
Scales
|
Special Program Coordinators
|
4
|
6
|
|
|
Consultants for the Disabled
|
4
|
7
|
|
|
Senior Counsellor
|
4
|
3
|
56.4 Sick Leave -
56.4.1 All officers and
temporary employees shall be entitled to fifteen days per annum with the unused
component of the annual entitlement being fully cumulative or pro rata where
employed for periods less than the equivalent full time.
56.4.2 Employees
employed on teaching conditions who, as at 31 January 1994, were entitled to 22
days on full pay and 22 days on half pay in any twelve month period shall
retain their previously accumulated sick leave entitlement.
56.4.3 Special sick
leave shall continue to be available.
56.4.4 Additional Sick
Leave - the provisions of this subclause shall only apply to officers and
temporary employees employed on teaching conditions.
(i) The maximum
grant of additional sick leave during the first two years of service is fifteen
days.
(ii) Additional
sick leave provided under this subclause is available at any stage during the
employee’s first two years of service but shall only be granted in circumstances
where:
(a) there is no
current concern regarding the employee’s use of sick leave as contained in
paragraph 56.4.1 of this subclause;
(b) all sick leave
entitlements as contained in paragraph 56.4.1 have been exhausted.
56.5 Extended Leave
-
56.5.1 Subject to the
TAFE Commission Act, officers and full time temporary employees shall be
entitled to extended leave of 44 working days on full pay or 88 working days on
half pay after completing ten years of service and a further eleven working
days for each completed year of service after ten years.
56.5.2 Extended leave
entitlements as a result of service prior to 31 January 1994 shall be saved as
accumulated under the pre-existing provisions applying to the employee
concerned.
56.6 Family and
Community Service Leave -
56.6.1 The maximum
amount of family and community service leave that may be granted to full time
officers and temporary employees is:
(i) during the
first twelve months of service - three working days;
(ii) after
completion of twelve months service - six working days in any two year period;
(iii) after
completion of two years service - nine working days in any three year period.
56.7 Personal/Carer's
Leave -
56.7.1 Use of Sick
Leave -
(i) Where family
and community service leave is exhausted an officer or temporary employee with
responsibilities in relation to a class of person set out in subparagraph (iii)
(b) below who needs that employee's care and support shall be entitled to use,
in accordance with this subclause, any current or accrued sick leave
entitlement provided for in sick leave provisions of this award or absences to
provide care and support for such persons when they are ill. Leave may be taken for part of a day.
(ii) That employee
shall if required, establish either by production of a medical certificate or
statutory declaration the illness of the person concerned and that the illness
is such as to require care by another person.
In normal circumstances, an employee must not take personal carer's
leave under this subclause where another person has taken leave to care for the
same person.
(iii) The
entitlement to use sick leave in accordance with this subclause is subject to:
(a) the employee
being responsible for the care of the person concerned; and
(b) the person
concerned being:
(1) a spouse of
the employee; or
(2) a de facto
spouse who, in relation to a person, is a person of the opposite sex to the
first mentioned person who lives with the first mentioned person as the husband
or wife of that person on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally
married to that person; or
(3) a child or an
adult child (including an adopted child, a stepchild, a foster child or an ex
nuptial child), parent (including a foster parent and legal guardian),
grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the employee or spouse or de facto spouse
of the employee; or
(4) a same sex
partner who lives with the employee as the de facto partner of that employee on
a bona fide domestic basis; or
(5) a relative of
the employee who is a member of the same household where, for the purposes of
this section:
"relative" means a person related by blood,
marriage, affinity or Aboriginal kinship structures;
"affinity" means a relationship that one spouse,
because of marriage, has to blood relatives of the other; and
"household" means a family group living in the
same domestic dwelling.
(iv) An employee
shall, wherever practicable, give the Managing Director or nominee notice,
prior to the absence, of the intention to take leave, the name of the person
requiring care and that person's relationship to the employee, the reasons for
taking such leave and the estimated length of absence. If it is not practicable for the employee to
give prior notice of absence, the employee shall notify the Managing Director
or nominee of such absence at the first opportunity on the day of absence.
56.7.2 Unpaid Leave for
Family Purposes -
(i) An officer or
temporary employee may elect, with the consent of the Managing Director or
nominee, to take unpaid leave for purpose of providing care and support to a
member of a class of person set out in subparagraph 56.7.1 (iii) (b) who is
ill.
56.7.3 Annual Leave -
(i) An officer or
temporary employee may elect, with the consent of the Managing Director or
nominee and subject to the Annual Holidays Act 1944, to take annual leave not
exceeding five days in single-day periods or part thereof in any calendar year
at a time or times agreed by the parties.
(ii) Access to
annual leave, as prescribed in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, shall be
exclusive of any shut down period provided for elsewhere under this award.
(iii) The employee
and Managing Director or nominee may agree to defer payment of the annual leave
loading in respect of single-day absences until at least five consecutive
annual leave days are taken.
56.7.4 Time Off in Lieu
of Payment for Overtime -
(i) An officer or
temporary employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to take time
off in lieu of payment of overtime at a time or times agreed with the employer
within twelve months of the said election.
(ii) Overtime
taken as time off during ordinary time hours shall be taken at the ordinary
time rate, that is, an hour for each hour worked.
(iii) If, having
elected to take time as leave in accordance with subparagraph (i) of this
paragraph, the leave is not taken for whatever reason, payment for time accrued
at overtime rates shall be made at the expiry of the twelve month period or on
termination.
(iv) Where no
election is made in accordance with the said subparagraph (i), the employee
shall be paid overtime rates in accordance with the award.
56.7.5 Make-up Time -
(i) An officer or
temporary employee may elect, with the consent of the Managing Director or
nominee to work "make-up time", under which the employee takes time
off ordinary hours and works those hours at a later time during the spread of
ordinary hours provided in the award, at the ordinary rate of pay.
56.7.6 Rostered Days
Off -
(i) An officer or
temporary employee may elect, with the consent of the Managing Director or
nominee, to take a rostered day off at any time.
(ii) An employee
may elect, with the consent of the Managing Director or nominee, to take
rostered days off in part day amounts.
(iii) An employee
may elect, with the consent of the Managing Director or nominee, to accrue some
or all rostered days off for the purpose of creating a bank to be drawn upon at
a time mutually agreed between the Managing Director or nominee and the
employee, or subject to reasonable notice by the employee or the Managing
Director or nominee.
(iv) This subclause
is subject to the Managing Director or nominee informing each union which is
party to the award and which has members employed at the particular enterprise
of its intention to introduce an enterprise system of RDO flexibility, and
providing a reasonable opportunity for the union to participate in
negotiations.
56.7.7 Bereavement
Leave -
(i) An officer or
temporary employee shall be entitled to up to two days bereavement leave
without deduction of pay on each occasion of the death of a person prescribed
in subparagraph 56.7.1 (iii) of this subclause, provided that for the purpose
of bereavement leave, the employee need not have been responsible for the care
of the person concerned.
(ii) The employee
must notify the Managing Director or nominee as soon as practicable of the
intention to take bereavement leave and shall, if required by the Managing
Director or nominee provide to the satisfaction of the Managing Director or
nominee proof of death.
(iii) An employee
shall not be entitled to bereavement leave under this clause during any period
in respect of which the employee has been granted other leave.
(iv) Bereavement
leave may be taken in conjunction with other leave available under this
clause. In determining such a request
the Managing Director or nominee shall give consideration to the circumstances
of the employee and the reasonable operational requirements of TAFE.
57. Calculation of
Service
57.1 In calculating
the years of service for the purpose of this award the following periods shall
not be taken into account:
57.1.1 any leave of
absence without pay exceeding five days in any year of service;
57.1.2 any unauthorised
absences;
57.1.3 any time period
during which an employee is not eligible to progress by reason of failure to
satisfy any condition attaching to salary progression under this award.
58. Training and
Development
58.1 The parties
confirm a commitment to training and development for all education
employees. Employees recognise their
obligation to maintain and update their skills. TAFE recognises its obligations to provide employees with
opportunities to maintain and update their skills.
58.2 It is the aim
of the parties to this award that employees shall be provided with
opportunities for training and development so that they will form a highly
skilled, competent and committed workforce, experiencing job satisfaction and
providing the highest quality service.
58.3 The parties
agree that, wherever possible, training and development shall be designed to
articulate with approved and accredited courses.
58.4 TAFE shall
facilitate the professional development, skills enhancement and career
development opportunities of employees and improve effectiveness through a
range of activities, including:
• work-based
learning;
• return to
industry;
• job rotation;
• transfers;
• secondment;
• project team
participation;
• job design
and redesign;
• provision of
training relevant to the needs of the individual and the requirements of the
organisation.
59. Multi-skilling
59.1 Subject to
appropriate qualifications, training and taking into account a teacher’s long
term career path opportunities, the Managing Director may transfer teachers to
teach their approved program in part or in whole in another location or
discipline other than the one to which they currently belong.
59.2 Teachers
transferred pursuant to subclause 59.1 of this clause shall have a right to a
review of their position each year in consultation with relevant TAFE officers.
60. Working
Conditions - Part time Casual Teachers, Coordinators and Counsellors in TAFE
60.1 This clause
sets out the general conditions of employment for part time casual teachers,
coordinators and counsellors in TAFE.
60.2 Subject to the
provisions of the TAFE Commission Act and to the regulations made thereunder
and to satisfying the conditions prescribed by this award, the hourly rate of
pay inclusive of all incidents of employment, excluding entitlements under the Long Service Leave Act 1955 and
including duties in subclause 60.7 of this clause, of part time casual teachers
and coordinators shall be as set out in Schedule 14.
60.3 Full time
teachers and the rates for part time casual teaching, coordination/consultancy
and duties other than teaching are linked by a formula based for administrative
convenience on the ratios of the hourly rate of a full time TAFE teacher on the
maximum salary of the common incremental salary scale contained in Schedule 1.
60.4 The formula for
calculating the hourly rate for full time teachers is:
Maximum TAFE Teacher Salary x 5 1
1 260.8929
30
60.5 The ratios
calculated in accordance with subclause 60.3 are:
|
Ratio
|
|
Teaching Duties
|
1.3475
|
|
Coordination/Consultancy Duties
|
1.2667
|
|
Duties Other Than Teaching
|
1.0638
|
60.6 Part time
casual teachers who teach within a correctional centre shall be entitled to an
environmental allowance of an additional amount per hour as set out in Schedule
2 on the rates contained in Schedule 14 for each hour so taught within the
correctional centre.
60.7 Duties -
60.7.1 The rate paid
for part time casual teachers is for the duties on which part time casual
teachers are engaged during the hours for which they have been authorised to
undertake direct teaching activities and performance of related duties
including:
• attendance in
the classroom before the commencement and after the completion of class;
• setting and
marking of class tests;
• assessing and
marking students' practical work;
• preparing
special lectures and lecture demonstrations;
• completing
records and returns;
• setting and
marking assignments;
• initial
recording of results;
• familiarisation
with the syllabus;
• organisation
of lesson plan;
• preparation
of lesson notes, and teaching aids;
• making copies
of notes; and
• preparation
for practical work, drawing and practical exercises.
60.8 Sick Leave -
60.8.1 Part time casual
teachers and coordinators shall be entitled to sick leave as follows:
(i) In any calendar
year a part time casual teacher or coordinator in TAFE shall be entitled to
accrue and then use sick leave as set out in subparagraphs (ii) to (viii)
below.
(ii) After having
completed 468 hours of service during any calendar year, a part time casual
teacher or coordinator shall have accrued paid sick leave of three weeks per
annum pro rata to the average number of hours per week worked by the teacher or
coordinator in that calendar year. The
part time casual teacher or coordinator shall accrue a number of hours sick
leave on an annual basis equal to the number of hours service in a calendar
year divided by twelve.
(iii) Provided that
a part time casual teacher or coordinator who has completed 468 hours service
in a calendar year but does not have accumulated sick leave entitlement from
preceding years shall have an hourly sick leave entitlement equal to the number
of hours service, at the date of taking leave, multiplied by three and divided
by the number of weeks worked by that date.
(iv) The maximum
amount of accumulated sick leave in any calendar year shall be 60 hours.
(v) At the
commencement of each calendar year, a part time casual teacher or coordinator
shall be credited with unused sick leave accrued in the preceding calendar
year.
(vi) A part time
casual teacher or coordinator who has an accrued sick leave entitlement and
who, because of personal illness, is unable to attend or perform duty on any
day when engaged or scheduled to attend, shall be entitled to be paid sick
leave at the rate applicable to those duties.
(vii) Where a part
time casual teacher's or coordinator's application for sick leave exceeds three
consecutive program days or as otherwise required by the Managing Director, the
part time casual teacher or coordinator shall produce a satisfactory medical
certificate from a qualified medical practitioner stating the nature of the
illness and the time which, in the doctor's opinion, must elapse before the
applicant can resume duty.
(viii) Where a part
time casual teacher or coordinator is also engaged in any other full time
employment and is entitled thereunder to sick leave benefits in respect to a
period of employment which is concurrent with any period(s) of employment as a
part time casual teacher or coordinator in TAFE they shall not be entitled to
any sick leave benefits under this award.
60.9 Hard to Fill
Country Locations -
60.9.1 When a part time
casual teaching, coordination and or counselling position has been advertised
twice in the press and no selection has been made, appropriate travel and
subsistence allowances as prescribed in clause 12, Allowances of the Crown
Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment 1997) Award published 24
April 1998 (304 I.G. 570,), as varied, shall be paid to part time casuals who,
upon request by TAFE, work in a remote location other than the location to
which they are otherwise engaged.
60.10 Related Duties -
60.10.1 Part time casual
teachers teaching a minimum of eighteen hours per week in any one institute may
be granted an average of 1.5 hours per week (to a maximum of 54 hours over 36
teaching weeks) for related duties with payment at the teaching duties rate
where, in the opinion of the TAFE management delegate, the number of full time
teachers available is insufficient to carry out essential work.
60.10.2 Apportionment of
the related duties hours during the academic year shall be by agreement between
the part time casual teacher and their supervisor.
60.11 Training and
Development -
60.11.1 Where a part time
casual teacher, coordinator or counsellor is approved to attend a staff
development activity which coincides with normal duties, such part time casuals
shall be paid at the rate applicable to their duty program for the length of
that duty program whilst so engaged on staff development activities.
60.11.2 Allowances and
reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses as prescribed in clause 12, Allowances
of the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment 1997) Award
published 24 April 1998 (304 I.G. 570), as varied, for motor vehicle allowances
shall be made on the following bases, provided that such travel is by the most
economical means.
60.11.3 If participants
attend courses where they are required to be away from their homes overnight,
they shall be entitled to:
(i) provision of
the cost of rail travel or use of car with payment at specified journey rates;
and
(ii) payment of
incidental expenses necessarily incurred in travelling.
60.11.4 If participants
attend courses where they are not required to be away from their homes
overnight, they shall be entitled to:
(i) travelling
costs as per subparagraph 60.11.3 (i); and
(ii) meal
allowances, when meals are not provided by TAFE.
60.12 Class
Cancellation -
60.12.1 Where a part time
casual teacher reports for duty on any day on the basis of a request by an
authorised officer and then is advised that their services are not required or
receive less than two hours notice of cancellation, the teacher shall be
entitled to receive payment for the scheduled duties.
60.13 Attendance at
Staff Meetings -
60.13.1 Part time casual
teachers and coordinators who are approved to attend staff meetings shall be
paid at the rate specified for duties other than teaching for attendance at the
meetings.
60.13.2 A minimum one
hour is payable for each meeting attendance.
60.13.3 Approval for
attendance in excess of two hours for each meeting shall be at the discretion
of the officer at the level above the part time casual’s supervisor.
60.14 Public Holiday
Pay -
60.14.1 When a public
holiday occurs on the day when part time casual teachers and coordinators are
normally required to be on duty, they shall be paid for that day's normally
programmed hours if they were:
(i) On their
normal duty day immediately preceding the public holiday, irrespective of
whether that day was the class day one week earlier or some additional class
day between those two days; and
(ii) On their
normal duty day immediately following the public holiday, irrespective of
whether that day was the class day one week later or some additional class day
between those days.
60.14.2 Part time casual
teachers and coordinators engaged as substitutes for other part time casual
teachers and coordinators shall be paid only if the normal part time casual
teachers or coordinators do not qualify under paragraph 60.14.1 of this
subclause.
60.14.3 Part time casual
teachers who teach during a vacation period are entitled to be paid for public
holidays falling within the vacation period pursuant to this clause.
60.15 Payment of
Interview Expenses -
60.15.1 Part time casual
teachers, coordinators and counsellors applying for full time TAFE positions
are entitled to the following provisions:
(i) When a part
time casual is called for interview for a full time position, then TAFE shall
meet the applicant's reasonable expenses for travel and subsistence as
contained in the Interview Expenses policy contained in the TAFE Commission
Gazette of 10 August 1994, as amended from time to time.
(ii) The payment
of expenses shall be a matter for discussion and agreement prior to interview,
bearing in mind due economy.
(iii) Travel
arrangements shall be discussed when interviews are arranged.
60.16 Recognition of
Previous TAFE Part time Casual Service -
60.16.1 Part time casual
teachers, coordinators and counsellors who are subsequently appointed to full
time TAFE positions are eligible to have such part time casual TAFE service
recognised for extended (long service) leave purposes, provided their service
merged without break into full time service.
60.16.2 To calculate
their entitlement, the following formula is used:
Number of hours worked
per week as a part time
casual x
Period of part time casual employment
Number of hours worked
per week by full time staff
in that classification
60.17 Agreed Leave -
60.17.1 Declared
Emergencies -
(i) Part time
casual teachers and coordinators who, in a declared emergency, volunteer to
assist the emergency services or who are members of volunteer emergency organisations
which are required to assist during a declared emergency are to be granted
leave with payment where it coincides with teaching duty. There is no limit on the duration of such
leave.
(ii) On resumption
of duty, proof of attendance certified by an authorised representative of the
emergency service shall be provided.
(iii) Agreed leave
for a further one day for rest purposes may be granted prior to the resumption
of duty.
60.17.2 Jury Duty -
(i) Part time
Casual Teachers and Coordinators Responsibility -
(a) A part time
casual teacher or coordinator, who attends a court in answer to a jury summons
on a day when they would otherwise be on duty, may elect to receive payment for
jury expenses or receive leave, whichever is most advantageous to the part time
casual.
(b) To obtain
leave, a part time casual teacher or coordinator must furnish to the
appropriate supervisor any certificate of attendance issued by the Sheriff or
by the Registrar of the court giving particulars of attendances by the part time
casual teacher or coordinator during any such period and the details of any
payment or payments made to the part time casual teacher or coordinator under
Section 72 of the Jury Act 1977, in
respect of any such period.
(c) A part time
casual teacher or coordinator must, as soon as possible, notify the appropriate
supervising officer of the details of any jury summons served.
(ii) TAFE's
Responsibility ‑
(a) The
appropriate supervising officer shall, in respect of any period during which a
part time casual teacher or coordinator was required to be on duty:
(1) upon receipt
of any such certificate of attendance grant, in respect of any such period for
which the part time casual teacher or coordinator has been paid out-of-pocket
expenses only, agreed leave on full pay; or
(2) in any other
case grant, at the sole election of the part time casual teacher or
coordinator, agreed leave without pay.
60.18 Access to
Facilities -
60.18.1 The institute
shall ensure that the facilities are available to all part time casual
employees. Subject only to the needs
for security and safety, teaching materials, working areas and equipment,
resource and reference materials and technical and administrative employees
shall be readily accessible by part time casual employees before, during and
following their scheduled duty periods.
60.19 Statement of
Service -
60.19.1 TAFE shall
maintain a record of service detailing hours paid during the period of
engagement of all part time casuals.
60.19.2 The record of
service prior to the introduction of the Lattice Human Resources Management
System shall be established from TAFE records supplemented by part time casuals
submitting records/statutory declarations of this service.
60.19.3 This record of
service will be updated and made available to each part time casual as a
Statement of Service:
(i) On request by
the part time casual concerned; or
(ii) On
termination of the part time casual’s employment.
60.20 Induction -
60.20.1 A part time
casual teacher, on initial engagement, shall be paid up to two hours at the
duties other than teaching rate for attendance at a formal induction program.
60.21 Part time Casual
Counsellors -
60.21.1 Part time casual
counsellors shall be entitled to an hourly rate of pay as set out in Schedule
14. The hourly rate of pay is linked by
a formula to step 10 of the common incremental salary scale. Note:
From 1 January 2001 to 30 June 2001 the salary used in the formula shall
be step 1 of the TAFE teacher salary scale.
The formula is as follows:
Step 10 Common Salary Scale x 5 x 1.5
1 260.8929 35
60.21.2 The hourly rate
of pay calculated in paragraph 60.21.1 is inclusive of all incidence of
employment, including sick leave in subclause 60.8, public holiday pay in
subclause 60.14 and agreed leave in subclause 60.17 except for entitlements
under the Long Service Leave Act
1955.
60.22 Temporary
Appointment Opportunities -
60.22.1 Part time casuals
are eligible to apply for temporary appointment to positions (other than full time
teaching, permanent teaching and promotional teaching positions) advertised
within the TAFE Gazette.
61. Contract Teachers
(OTEN)
61.1 This clause
establishes the general conditions of employment, including hourly rates of
pay, which are specific to contract teachers employed by TAFE at OTEN.
61.2 In addition to
the qualifications for appointment the Basic Method of External Teaching (BMET)
is the pre entry requirement.
61.3 Rates of Pay -
61.3.1 There shall be a
single contract teaching rate. The rate
of pay for contract teachers is linked to the hourly teaching duties rate for
part time casual teachers as follows:
Teaching Duties Rate for x 2 x 25 = $ per unit
Part time Casual Teacher
3 60
61.3.2 This formula
reflects the parties' agreement that the marking of each unit of work shall be
allocated 25 minutes.
61.3.3 The rates of pay
for contract teachers (OTEN) are set out in Schedule 14. These rates are inclusive of all incidence
of employment except for long service leave as provided under the Long Service Leave Act 1955.
62. Provision for
Positions which are Hard To Fill
62.1 This clause
does not apply to part time casual teachers and contract teachers (OTEN).
62.2 A position will
be regarded as "hard to fill" when it has been advertised once
throughout the Commission and twice throughout New South Wales in the major
press and no appointment has been made.
62.3 When a position
has been identified as "hard to fill" in accordance with subclause
62.2, the Commission will review the position in order to ensure that the
current position description and accountabilities appropriately reflect the
nature of the position. Where
appropriate, job redesign will follow and the new position will be advertised
in the normal manner.
62.4 Where job
redesign has not been deemed to be appropriate, Institute Directors and
managers may offer an allowance of up to ten per cent of the maximum salary of
the position when it is next advertised.
62.5 The allowance
will be paid to the selected applicant for as long as they remain in the
advertised position.
63. Industrial Rights
63.1 Federation
Representatives -
63.1.1 An accredited
Federation representative at the place in which they are employed shall, upon
notification thereof to their employer, be recognised as an accredited
Federation representative.
63.1.2 An accredited
Federation representative shall be allowed the necessary time during working
hours to interview the employer or their representative on matters affecting
employees.
63.1.3 An accredited
Federation representative shall be allowed a reasonable period of time during
working hours to interview a duly accredited Federation official.
63.2 Consultative
and Other Committee Work -
63.2.1 Where an
employee is required by TAFE, nominated by the Federation or otherwise selected
by other employees to participate in work based consultative or like
committees, TAFE shall provide such employees with paid leave to attend to such
matters.
63.2.2 In addition,
where such committees unanimously agree to undertake a particular project
consistent with their terms of reference, TAFE shall provide sufficient paid
time to enable the employee to undertake the project.
64. Quality
Improvement Program
64.1 The parties are
committed to encouraging officers at all levels to take responsibility for the
continuous improvement of all processes, products and services of TAFE.
64.2 The parties
will actively participate in the development and implementation of the agreed
quality improvement program throughout TAFE and will contribute to the
program's success.
65. Pilot Schemes
65.1 The parties
agree to pilot innovative ways to meet customer needs; to jointly develop
performance indicators for these schemes; to jointly monitor and measure the
success of these schemes using these indicators; and to implement those
initiatives which they have agreed are a success.
65.2 The parties
agree that, before pilot schemes are introduced, the Federation and affected
officers involved must be consulted and agree to their trial.
66. Principles of
Restructuring
66.1 The parties
agree to the following basic principles in the restructuring of work units:
66.1.1 officers will be
consulted at the first opportunity;
66.1.2 the Federation
is notified and discussions held regarding the restructure;
66.1.3 where new
structures are being considered, a broad outline of the structure with basic
functions of each position will be developed;
66.1.4 the process
involves ongoing consultation with officers and the Federation;
66.1.5 job analysis
will be conducted on the new positions;
66.1.6 resulting
position descriptions will be discussed with affected officers and the
Federation;
66.1.7 job evaluation
of positions is undertaken;
66.1.8 staffing of
positions occurs in terms of redeployment, potential redeployment, transfer,
staff selection and direct appointment, except where a position can clearly be
identified as an upgraded position with an incumbent.
SCHEDULES FOR TAFE SECTION
Schedule 11 - Salary Scales - Promotion Classifications in
TAFE
|
Classification
|
Current salary
(after
|
Salary on and
|
Salary on and from
|
Salary on
|
|
|
increase by 4% by
|
from 1.7.2001
|
1.7.2002
|
and from
|
|
|
Determination on
and
|
|
|
1.1.2003
|
|
|
from 3.4.2000)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Per annum ($)
|
|
Cluster Manager and
|
82,265
|
84,733
|
88,122
|
92,528
|
|
Manager, Education and
|
|
|
|
|
|
Training Resource Centre
|
|
|
|
|
|
Principal Education Officer
|
76,651
|
78,951
|
82,109
|
86,214
|
|
and Program Manager and
|
|
|
|
|
|
Curriculum Manager
|
|
|
|
|
|
Quality Assurance
|
72,223
|
74,390
|
77,366
|
81,234
|
|
Coordinator
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chief Education Officer
|
68,416
|
70,468
|
73,287
|
76, 951
|
|
Senior Education Officer and
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior Counsellor
|
|
|
|
|
|
Step 2
|
62,906
|
64,793
|
67,385
|
70,754
|
|
Step 1
|
61,386
|
63,228
|
65,757
|
69,045
|
|
Senior Head Teacher in
|
|
|
|
|
|
TAFE
|
|
|
|
|
|
(old classification)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Step 2
|
62,906
|
64,793
|
67,385
|
70,754
|
|
Step 1
|
61,386
|
63,228
|
65,757
|
69,045
|
|
Head Teacher in TAFE
|
|
|
|
|
|
Band 2
|
61,386
|
63,228
|
65,757
|
69,045
|
|
Band 1
|
56,497
|
58,192
|
60,520
|
63,546
|
|
Head Teacher in TAFE
|
|
|
|
|
|
(old classification)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Step 2
|
58,810
|
60,574
|
62,997
|
66,147
|
|
Step 1
|
56,497
|
58,192
|
60,520
|
63,546
|
|
Special Program Coordinator
|
|
|
|
|
|
Step 2
|
58,810
|
60,574
|
62,997
|
66,147
|
|
Step 1
|
56,497
|
58,192
|
60,520
|
63,546
|
Schedule 12 - Excess Travel and Compensation for Travel on
Official Business - TAFE Teachers
1. Definitions -
1.1 For the
purpose of this Schedule:
1.1.1 "Excess
Travel" means, for the purpose of subclause 3.3, those distances:
(i) when
travelling from home to work and vice versa, that distance in excess of the
distance between the teacher's home and headquarters;
(ii) on any day
where the teacher is required during the day to travel from one college, campus
or other workplace to another.
1.1.2 "Headquarters"
means that college/campus nominated by the Managing Director or nominee for the
teacher, or that college/campus where the major part of the teacher's approved
program is performed.
1.1.3 "Teacher"
means all persons employed permanently or temporarily in TAFE in full time
teaching positions, including head teachers, special program coordinators, TAFE
counsellors and adult literacy officers.
1.1.4 "Teaching
Program" means all direct teaching and other duties that take place during
the teacher's approved program, including a prescribed course of teacher
education.
2. Introduction
-
2.1 Except where
authorised, teachers are responsible for meeting costs incurred in travel
between their residence and usual place of work.
2.2 Teachers may
be authorised to use their private vehicle for travel on official business in
the performance of their normal duties where other modes of travel are
unsuitable or unavailable.
2.3 The use of a
teacher’s private motor vehicle on official business is not mandatory.
3. Excess Travel
Time -
3.1 When a
teacher, in order to perform their teaching program is required to travel
outside the teacher's duty hours:
• from the
teacher's home to a college, campus or other workplace; and/or
• from a
college, campus or other workplace to the teacher's home; and/or
• between
colleges, campuses or other workplaces on any one day; and/or
• between parts
of a college, campus or other workplace which are at different sites; and/or
• between
colleges, campuses, institutes or other workplaces and any annexes of a
college, campus, institute or other workplace which are at different sites,
and where the teacher is not granted by mutual arrangement
between the teacher and TAFE time off the teaching duties equal to and in lieu
of the actual time spent in excess travelling, the teacher shall be paid for
excess time occupied in travelling, in accordance with this Schedule but
subject to the following conditions:
3.1.1 There shall be
deducted from the teacher's travelling time on any one day the time normally
taken for the periodic journey from home to headquarters and return.
3.1.2 Periods of less
than fifteen minutes on any one day shall be disregarded.
3.1.3 Travelling time
shall not include any period of travel between:
(i) 11.00 pm on
any one day and 7.30 am on the following day when the teacher has travelled
overnight and accommodation has been provided for the teacher; or
(ii) 11.00 pm on
any one day and 6.00 am on the following day for a teacher who is required to
perform teaching duties between 6.00 am and 7.30 am as part of their teaching
program when the teacher has travelled overnight and accommodation has been
provided for the teacher.
3.1.4 Travelling time
shall be calculated by reference to the time that might reasonably have been
taken by the use of the most practical and economic means of transport.
3.1.5 No time spent
in performing duties shall be counted as travelling time.
3.2 Payment for
excess travelling time shall be at the teacher’s ordinary rate of pay on an
hourly basis, calculated as follows:
Annual Salary x 5 x 1
260.8929 30
3.3 Payment for
Excess Travel -
3.3.1 All travelling
costs reasonably incurred because of excess travel for the use of a private
motor vehicle shall be paid on the basis of cents per kilometre at two rates as
set out in clause 9 of this schedule for:
(i) up to 8,000 km
per annum;
(ii) over 8,000 km
per annum.
3.3.2 For the
purposes of payment under this subclause, excess travel on any day where the
teacher is required during the day to travel from one college, campus or other
workplace to another, shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of
subclauses 3.3.1 to 3.3.8 inclusive.
3.3.3 On days when a
teacher is required to travel on official business and travels to and from
home, whether or not the teacher visits headquarters, a deduction shall be made
from the total distance travelled from home to home as follows:
|
Distance Home to Headquarters
|
Deduction Km
|
|
(One Way) Km
|
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
2
|
2
|
|
3
|
3
|
|
4
|
4
|
|
5
|
5
|
|
6
|
6
|
|
7
|
7
|
|
8
|
8
|
|
9
|
9
|
|
10
|
10
|
|
11-29
|
10
|
|
30 or more
|
10
|
|
|
plus 2 km for each km above 29 km from
|
|
|
home to headquarters.
|
3.3.4 Provided that
when the above deduction in subclause 3.3.3 has been effected, the teacher
shall add to the number of kilometres claimed the kilometres shown in the
following schedule:
|
Home to
Headquarters
|
Add
|
|
(One Way)
|
|
|
Kilometres
|
Kilometres
|
|
29-35
|
1
|
|
36-40
|
2
|
|
41-45
|
3
|
|
46-50
|
4
|
|
51-55
|
5
|
|
56-60
|
6
|
|
61-65
|
7
|
|
66 and over
|
8
|
3.3.5 This daily
deduction discounts the normal one way distance travelled from home to
headquarters for which teachers shall not be paid.
3.3.6 Where a teacher
is on duty at their headquarters on a particular day and the teacher elects to
travel to the headquarters in their private motor vehicle, no payment shall be
made for such travel.
(i) If, on such a
day, the teacher is directed to travel from their headquarters in an emergency
situation, the teacher may be granted approval to use their own motor vehicle
and claim the normal kilometre rate for the distance from headquarters to the
emergency centre and return.
(ii) Where a
teacher has approval to use their private motor vehicle on official business
and is directed to have the vehicle at headquarters on each day, or particular
days, in order to have available a ready means of transport, payment shall be
made for the distance from home to headquarters and return for each day of duty
the car is required to be available (on official business), less the daily
deduction.
3.3.7 A claim for
travel allowance cannot be made where the headquarters and another centre
visited are on the same or adjacent sites where less than fifteen minutes
travel between the sites is required.
3.3.8 The daily
deduction is not applied where a teacher is required to use their private motor
vehicle from their home after working hours on official business or when the
teacher is required to stay away from home overnight on official business.
4. Waiting Time
-
4.1 Where a
teacher qualifies for payment in accordance with this Schedule for excess time
occupied in travelling and necessary waiting time occurs, such waiting time
shall be treated as travelling time subject to the following conditions:
4.1.1 Where there is
no overnight stay with accommodation at a centre away from home or headquarters
one hour shall be deducted from the necessary waiting time between the time of
arrival at the centre and the commencement of duty and one hour shall be
deducted from the necessary waiting time between the time of ceasing duty and
the time of departure for home or headquarters or another centre.
4.1.2 Where overnight
accommodation is provided at a centre any time from the completion of arrival
at the centre until departure for home or headquarters or another centre shall
not count as travelling time except that:
(i) where duty is
performed on the day of such departure any necessary waiting time (less one
hour) from completion of such duty until departure shall be counted;
(ii) where no duty
is performed on the day of such departure necessary waiting time (less one
hour) after 9.00 am until such departure shall be counted,
and provided further that where accommodation as mentioned
in subclause 3.1.3 above is provided waiting time after 11.00 pm shall not be
counted.
5. Official
Business Rate -
5.1 The official
business rate is payable where the use of a teacher's private motor vehicle on
official business is authorised and the teacher is required to travel on
official business using their motor vehicle on a regular basis of at least once
per week throughout the TAFE year or travel a minimum of 400 kilometres during
the TAFE year, except where:
5.1.1 an official
vehicle is available;
5.1.2 for all or
specific days of travel, public transport is obviously available, suitable, and
does not result in a loss of the teacher's professional time and/or restriction
in the performance of the teacher's duties and professional responsibilities.
5.2 Where a
teacher commences duty other than at the start of the TAFE year the minimum
period of 400 kilometres to be travelled, as provided by subclause 5.1 above,
shall be adjusted proportionately.
5.3 The rate paid
is that specified at clause 9 of this schedule.
6. Specified
Journey Rate -
6.1 The specified
journey rate is payable to teachers who are authorised to use their private
motor vehicle to travel on official business intermittently as opposed to
regular use (as provided by clause 5 of this Schedule) for which the official
business rate is paid, except where:
6.1.1 an official
vehicle is available;
6.1.2 for all or
specific days of travel, public transport is obviously available, suitable, and
does not result in a loss of the teacher's professional time and/or restriction
in the performance of the teacher's duties and professional responsibilities.
6.2 Circumstances
where teachers, who are not authorised for reimbursement of travel expenses at
the official business rate, may be given approval to use their private vehicle
on official business at the specified journey rate include travel to attend
staff development courses, selection committee interviews, GREAT appeals and
hearings.
6.3 The rate paid
is that specified in clause 9 of this Schedule.
7. Payment of
2700 cc or more Motor Vehicle Rate -
7.1 Where the
teacher's normal duties are performed within the Sydney Region (as defined by
the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning) the maximum per kilometre rate
payable shall be the 1600 to 2700 cc rate.
7.2 Where the
official travel, in whole or in part, is outside the Sydney Region,
consideration shall be given to payment of the over 2700 cc rate in respect of
a vehicle with an engine capacity above 2700 cc. Such consideration shall be related to the total annual distance
travelled by the teacher on official business, the terrain and other factors
advanced by the teacher as relevant.
7.3 Provided that
the provisions of subclauses 7.1 and 7.2 above shall not apply to teachers who
have an existing approval for payment of the over 2700 cc rate arising from
clause 4 (b)(i) of Industrial Agreement 7036 of 1983.
8. Daily
Deduction -
8.1 On days when a
teacher is required to travel on official business and travels to and from
home, whether or not the teacher visits headquarters, a deduction shall be made
from the total distance travelled from home to home as follows:
|
Distance Home to
Headquarters
|
Deduction
|
|
(One Way)
|
|
|
Kilometres
|
Kilometres
|
|
1
|
1
|
|
2
|
2
|
|
3
|
3
|
|
4
|
4
|
|
5
|
5
|
|
6
|
6
|
|
7
|
7
|
|
8
|
8
|
|
9
|
9
|
|
10
|
10
|
|
11-29
|
10
|
|
30 or more
|
10
|
|
|
plus 2 km for each
km above 29 km from
|
|
|
home to
headquarters.
|
8.2 Provided that
when the above deduction in subclause 8.1 has been effected, the teacher shall
add to the number of kilometres claimed the kilometres shown in the following
schedule:
|
Home to
Headquarters
|
Add
|
|
(One Way)
|
|
|
Kilometres
|
Kilometres
|
|
29-35
|
1
|
|
36-40
|
2
|
|
41-45
|
3
|
|
46-50
|
4
|
|
51-55
|
5
|
|
56-60
|
6
|
|
61-65
|
7
|
|
66 and over
|
8
|
8.3 This daily
deduction discounts the normal one way distance travelled from home to
headquarters for which teachers shall not be paid.
8.4 Where a
teacher is on duty at their headquarters on a particular day and the teacher
elects to travel to the headquarters in their private motor vehicle, no payment
shall be made for such travel.
8.4.1 If, on such a
day, the teacher is directed to travel from their headquarters in an emergency
situation, the teacher may be granted approval to use their own motor vehicle
and claim the normal kilometre rate for the distance from headquarters to the
emergency centre and return.
8.4.2 Where a teacher
has approval to use their private motor vehicle on official business and is
directed to have the vehicle at headquarters on each day, or particular days,
in order to have available a ready means of transport, payment shall be made
for the distance from home to headquarters and return for each day of duty the
car is required to be available (on official business), less the daily
deduction.
8.5 A claim for
travel allowance cannot be made where the headquarters and another centre
visited are on the same or adjacent sites where less than fifteen minutes,
travel between the sites is required.
8.6 The daily
deduction is not applied where a teacher is required to use their private motor
vehicle from their home after working hours on official business or when the
teacher is required to stay away from home overnight on official business.
9. Official
Business and Specified Journey Rates -
|
Clause of Schedule
|
Rate/Vehicle Engine
Capacity
|
Cents Per Km
|
|
which applies
|
|
|
|
5
|
Official Business
Rate
|
0 - 8,000 km per
annum
|
8,001 km or more
per annum
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
below 1600 cc
|
44.8
|
18.7
|
|
|
1600 - 2700 cc
|
62.5
|
22.2
|
|
|
above 2700 cc
|
67.2
|
23.9
|
|
6
|
Specified Journey
Rate
|
|
|
|
below 1600 cc
|
18.7
|
|
|
1600 - 2700 cc
|
22.2
|
|
|
above 2700 cc
|
23.9
|
Provided that these rates shall be adjusted in accordance
with the rates contained at clause 12(vi)(d) and Table 1 of Part B of the Crown
Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment 1997) Award published 24
April 1998 (304 I.G. 570) or its successor as amended from time to time or in
accordance with the rates as approved from time to time by the Director-General
of the Premier’s Department.
Schedule 13 - Strategies for Maximising Annual Student
Contact Hours in TAFE
1. Annual
Student Contact Hours (ASCH) shall be maximised by utilising a range of
strategies. If requested, consultation
shall occur at the local level between the teaching section and their line
manager regarding educational soundness, access and equity, appropriate resources
and occupational health and safety.
2. Such
strategies include:
2.1 Ensuring that
all available student places are filled.
2.2 Continual or
"topping up" of enrolments as students meet module outcomes or units
of competence and move out of the class.
This shall result in an increased output of students.
2.3 Continual or
"topping up" of enrolments to replace enrolled students who have not
commenced the course, or who have officially withdrawn from modules or who have
been absent from class without notice for four consecutive weeks.
2.4 Enrolment of
students in modules to undertake the additional training and education required
to achieve competency against the module outcome or unit of competence
following successful assessment for Recognition.
2.5 Establishing
quality partnerships with industry which may result in a proportion of the
program being workplace training and assessment, conducted by TAFE approved
industry personnel in accordance with an agreed quality assurance process.
2.6 Utilising a
variety of delivery modes that are appropriate to the particular learning
situation, including the needs of students.
2.7 Core enrolment
times shall continue to occur at the start of each semester. These shall be supplemented by continual or
"topping up" of enrolments as outlined above.
2.8 Extending
enrolments and commencements beyond the core enrolment times at the start of
each semester and staggering enrolments and commencement times across the full
year.
2.9 Teachers and
head teachers shall employ best practice in student administration by ensuring
that all activities for which they are responsible are correctly recorded and
credited including the completion of enrolment adjustment forms.
2.10 Enrolling in
the initial enrolment period up to an additional three students over and above
the student teacher ratios in a subject/module, where the subject/module has a
history of attrition, based on institute data.
Schedule 14 - Rates of Pay - Part time Casual Teachers,
Coordinators and Counsellors in TAFE and Contract Teachers (OTEN)
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Current rates
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Rates on and
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Rates on and
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Rates on and
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Rates on
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(after increase by
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from 1.7.2001
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from 1.7.2002
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from 1.1.2003
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and
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4% by
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from
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Determination on
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1.1.2004
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and from
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3.4.2000)
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Per hour ($)
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Teaching Duties
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45.42
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46.78
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48.65
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50.52
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50.78
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Co-ordination/
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Consultancy
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42.69
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43.97
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45.73
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47.49
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48.02
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Duties
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Duties Other
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Than Teaching
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35.85
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36.93
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38.41
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39.89
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40.38
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(DOTT)
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Part time Casual
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Counsellors
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37.21
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38.89
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40.44
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42.46
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42.46
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Open Training and
Education Network Contract Teachers Per Unit ($)
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Contract
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Teaching Duties
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12.62
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12.99
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13.51
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14.03
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14.11
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M. J. WALTON, J,
Vice-President
L. C. GLYNN J.
R. W. HARRISON D.P.
E. A. R. BISHOP,
Commissioner.
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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.