Part 3: Hours of Work

3.1 Hours of Work

3.1.1 It is acknowledged that principals are often required to undertake duties outside of the hours that the school is open for instruction.  Such duties include:

• preparation, evaluation and assessment work generated by classes/sessions and the students within them, or by other requirements such as the need to report on the progress of individual students;
• counselling of students;
• management and administrative responsibilities;
• attending courses and meetings;
• professional development.

This factor has been taken into consideration in determining the hours of work and leave entitlements of these principals.

3.1.2 Principals shall work such hours as may be reasonably required of them to enable them to properly fulfil their responsibilities whether or not such hours may exceed 40 hours per week.

3.1.3 An employer may, during any period when the school is officially closed for instruction, require a principal to:

(a) undertake duties or responsibilities required during that period for the proper management of the school; or

(b) attend at the school or elsewhere for other purposes connected to that principal's employment.

The employer will however, endeavour to arrange matters at the school in such a way that any requirement that the principal undertake duties or attend at the school when the school is officially closed for instruction is not unreasonable.

3.1.4 A Principal required by their employer to work on a Public Holiday (as listed in S44 Holidays Act 2003) shall be paid time and a half rates as per s50 of the Act.

3.1.5 Principals will take their annual leave outside the gazetted term dates.