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This section provides information about your responsibilities and guidelines to best employment practice for boards of trustees as employers and for staff who manage employment in schools and kura.
Roles of the organisations involved with education sector employment.
Information about the requirements and processes for employing staff in New Zealand schools.
Information on classroom release time, non-contact time, banking staffing, cashing up annual leave and duties when the school is not open for instruction.
Employment information on staff accessing professional development.
Advice for schools on managing bullying, where to access information to help manage bullying and encourage positive behaviour.
Concurrence is approval granted by the Ministry for terms or conditions outside those prescribed in the collective agreements or through promulgation of individual employment agreements.
Boards of trustees are responsible for ensuring the health and safety of anyone permitted to come on to school premises.
Boards of trustees are responsible for ensuring that each member of staff participates in the performance management process.
A summary of the process and the board obligations when managing surplus staffing.
An explanation of services available for resolution of employment relationship problems.
A summary of the ways an employment relationship may be ended.
Information relating to the bargaining process for collective agreements.
This page provides downloads of expired collective agreements.
Content last updated: 22 May 2013