Part 6: Allowances

6.1 Reimbursing Allowances

6.1.1 Before approving any activities which require the payment or reimbursement of expenses the employer shall ensure that such payment or reimbursement complies with any funding arrangements applying to the school.

6.1.2 Travelling Allowance

A principal, other than a Correspondence School principal, required to travel within New Zealand on official business for an absence of more than one day, including attendance at approved staff development courses, educational and sports tours shall be paid a travelling allowance as follows:

(i) Accommodation/meals - reimbursement of costs on an actual and reasonable basis;

(ii) A daily incidentals allowance of $7.36.

6.1.3 School Camp Allowance

A daily allowance of $19.97 is payable to principals, other than Correspondence School principals, in charge of a class or classes attending a school camp.

6.1.4 Tea Allowance

A tea allowance of $54.64 per annum is payable to principals who do not receive free morning and afternoon tea.

6.1.5 Evening Meal Allowance

In circumstances where a principal's attendance at a meeting prevents the principal concerned returning home for the normal evening meal, a meal allowance of $11.56 is payable.

6.1.6 Expenses Incurred in Use of Private Vehicles

Motor vehicle allowance at a rate of 58c per km for a car and 18c per km for a motor cycle or equivalent public transport fares shall be reimbursed to principals required to use their own vehicles for official business.

6.1.7 Miscellaneous Expenses

On the production of receipts, the employer shall reimburse actual and reasonable expenses which have been incurred in the proper performance of the principal's responsibilities and duties under this contract.  Provided that the principal had the prior approval of the employer to both the duties which resulted in the expenses being incurred, and the level of those expenses.

6.2 Other Allowances

6.2.1 Normal School Allowance

A principal in a normal or a model school shall receive an additional salary of $2,000 per annum.

6.2.2 Bus Controller's Allowance

A principal appointed bus controller for a school district who undertakes the full duties of bus control as determined from time to time by the employer shall be paid additional salary at the rate of:

• $3.72 per day for the first route
• $1.30 per day for each additional route thereafter.

6.2.3 Associate Teacher Allowance

An associate teacher allowance of $51.60 per trainee week shall be paid under the following provisions:

(a) The following definitions shall apply:

(i) “trainee” means a teacher trainee, or teacher on a course of retraining, at a college of education or provider approved and accredited under the provisions of the Education Act 1989 or a teacher undertaking a full-time course of specialised training

(ii) “associate teacher” means a principal employed by a Board of Trustees, approved by a college of education or other teacher training provider approved and accredited under the provisions of the Education Act 1989, to assist in the practical training of trainees under conditions defined by the provider;

(b) For each trainee week, namely each week each trainee is posted to an associate teacher's classroom for at least four teaching days, the associate teacher shall be paid at the rate specified above.

(c) Principals who are not associate teachers but are required to have trainees in the classroom for up to eight student weeks in any one year shall, except when the time spent in the one classroom by one or more trainees is less than four teaching days a week, be entitled to payment in accordance with the rate specified above.

(d) Where the approved teacher training provider approves the posting of trainees for a period of less than four teaching days a week, then payment shall be made in accordance with the rate specified above on the basis of the aggregation of those periods;

(e) The associate teacher allowance is payable to principals who are not necessarily involved in classroom related duties but who otherwise satisfy the provisions of this clause;

(f) The associate teacher allowance shall be payable at a daily rate for a trainee once four days have been completed with that trainee pro rated on the rate specified above.  The first four days will also qualify for payment;

(g) The associate teacher allowance shall not be payable to a principal receiving the normal school allowance.

6.2.4 Staffing Incentive Allowance

Additional salary at the rate of $1,000 per annum shall be paid to all principals appointed to advertised positions in schools designated as having serious staffing difficulties and schools approved because of location.

6.2.5 Mäori Immersion Teaching Allowance

All full time principals in Mäori immersion classes at levels one, two or three as defined in Schedule 1 to this Agreement shall receive additional salary at a rate equivalent to that of a unit as per the Primary Teachers Collective Agreement.

6.2.6 Compassionate Grant

A compassionate grant shall be paid by the employer to a partner, or if there is no partner, to the next of kin of a principal who dies while employed in the state teaching service.  Compassionate grants are calculated as a proportion of the annual rate of salary (including any permanent salary allowances) payable to the principal at the time of death as follows:

For the purposes of this clause, "service" means service in New Zealand state schools.  Service must be continuous except that intervals of up to one year may be bridged and service aggregated, but the intervals do not count as service.  If an interval exceeds one year the qualifying service commences afresh after the interval.

6.2.7 Grandparented Service Increment

(a) A permanent employee on 1 July 1992 who received a service increment shall maintain that entitlement while the employee remains in a position covered by this contract, of $1,641 per annum.

(b) Teachers from area or secondary schools who were in receipt of a service increment under their appropriate contract as at 10 September 1992 who then transfer to the primary service shall receive the primary service increment of $1,641 per annum.

(c) A short break in service (being less than six months) for any teacher in receipt of the service increment will not affect eligibility for the service increment.

(d) Approved paid leave and unpaid leave, parental leave, and leave for childcare purposes of less than five years will not affect eligibility for the service increment.

(e) Teachers who move from employment with one Board to another Board will continue their entitlement to the service increment unless there is a break in service of six months or more (other than a period of leave described in clause 6.2.7(d)).

6.2.8 Special Residential School Principals’ Allowance

(i) Effective from the start of school year 2008, a principal in the following Special Residential schools shall receive additional salary of $3000 per annum:

• Halswell
• BLENZ
• McKenzie
• Waimokoia
• van Asch
• Salisbury
• Kelston
• Westbridge

(ii) This allowance shall apply to a school on the above list for only as long as that school retains and operates its residential function.

(iii) The parties acknowledge that receipt of this payment will not affect the Ministry’s response to applications for Ministry concurrence for further additional payments for special residential school principals.

6.3 Isolation Allowance

6.3.1 A principal whose work requires that they reside for the term of their appointment at a locality designated as isolated will receive an isolation allowance at the prescribed rate.

6.3.2 An isolation allowance will be paid fortnightly and during:

(a) periods of annual leave, whether or not the principal remains in the isolated locality;

(b) any absence from the isolated locality on sick leave or other paid leave of up to seven consecutive days;

(c) periods where a principal goes to another locality and is paid a school camp allowance.

6.3.3 Where a principal:

(a) immediately prior to the introduction of the isolation allowance was being paid a “remote allowance”; or

(b) before 2 April 1982 was appointed to a locality in which, but for the provisions of this contract would have received a “remote allowance” and where residence in that same locality does not now qualify for an isolation allowance: that principal shall nevertheless be paid an allowance, at the rate to which they would have been entitled, as a “remote allowance” until such time as either

(i) s/he moves; or

(ii) residence at that locality ceases to qualify for a “remote allowance”; or

(iii) residence at that locality entitles the principal to an isolation allowance payment.

The rates for this “remote allowance” for principals will be fixed at $109.01.

6.3.4 The isolation allowance rates for principals whose full-time residence is in a locality which has a population of less than 300 are:

6.4 Removal Expenses

The provisions of Appendix 2 apply.