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Secondary Teachers' Collective Agreement
Table of contents
Part One General
1.1 Name of the Agreement
1.2 Parties
1.3 Application
1.4 Coverage
1.5 Employees and Employers Bound Subsequent to Settlement
1.6 Term of Agreement
1.7 Variations
1.8 Definitions
Part Two Statement of the Parties
2.1 The Strategic Vision and Plan
2.2 The Shared Vision 2005
2.3 Future of Secondary Education Project
Part Three Terms of Employment
3.1 Good Employer/Equal Employment Opportunities see also s.77A State Sector Act 1988
3.2 Appointments
3.3 Teacher Competence
3.4 Teacher Conduct and Discipline
3.5 Resolving Conflict in a Māori Context
3.6 Nga Manu Korero
3.7 Te Atākura Time Allowance
3.8 Beginning Teacher Time Allowance
3.9 Surplus staffing and merger provisions
3.10 Return from a Period of Childcare
3.11 Termination of Appointment
3.12 Medical Retirement
3.13 Retirement Savings Scheme
3.14 Savings
3.15 Declaration Pursuant to Act
Part Four Remuneration
4.1 Salary Scales
4.2 Application of Salaries
4.3 Units
4.4 Payment of Salaries - Short-Term Relievers
4.5 Part-Time Teachers
4.6 Effective Date of Salary Increases on Promotion
4.7 Salary Protection
4.8 Holiday Pay
4.9 Service Increment
4.10 Careers Adviser Allowance
4.11 Associate Teacher Allowance
4.12 Staffing Incentive Allowance
4.13 High Priority Teacher Supply Allowance
4.14 Specialist Classroom Teacher Allowance
4.15 Bus Controller’s Allowance
4.16 Acting Principal
4.17 Acting in a Higher Position other than Principal
4.18 Compassionate Grant
4.19 Māori Immersion Teacher Allowance
4.20 Special Duties Increment Allowance
Part Five Hours of Work
5.1 General
5.2 Non-Contact Time
5.3 Definitions
5.4 Duties When Schools Are Not Open For Instruction
5.5 Length of School Day
5.6 Length of School Week
5.7 Length of School Year
5.8 Division of Year into Terms and Holidays
5.9 Class size
Part Six Leave
6.1 Eligibility
6.2 Sick Leave
6.3 Parental Provisions
6.4 Bereavement/Tangihanga Leave for Death in New Zealand or Overseas
6.4 Ngā Whakarite Tuku Tangihanga
6.5 Leave for Family Reasons
6.6 Special Leave
6.7 Refreshment Leave
6.8 Other Forms of Leave
6.9 Travelling Time for Leave Purposes
6.10 Leave Records
6.11 Leave Calculation Rules
Part Seven Travelling Allowances Reimbursements and Expenses
7.1 Travelling Expenses
7.2 Meal Allowance
7.3 Field Allowance
7.4 Use of Private Vehicles for Official Business
7.5 Meetings and Courses
7.6 Subscription to Professional Association
7.7 Allowances for Relieving Teachers
7.8 Consumables for Teachers’ Use
7.9 Tea Allowance
7.10 Miscellaneous Expenses
7.11 Reimbursement of study fees for Specialist Classroom Teachers
Part Eight Removal Expenses
8.1 Eligibility
8.2 Entitlement
Part Nine Employment Relationship Problem Resolution Provisions
9.1 Employment Relationship Problem Resolution Services
9.2 Personal Grievances
107 Definition of Involvement in Activities of Union for Purposes of Section 104
9.3 Settlement of Personal Grievances
9.4 Special Procedures When Sexual Harassment Alleged
9.5 Disputes
Part Ten Association Matters
10.1 Association Leave
10.2 Right of Access
10.3 Association Deductions
10.4 Paid Union Meetings s.26 Employment Relations Act 2000
10.5 Employment Relations Education Leave
Part Eleven Correspondence School
11.1 General
11.2 Hours of Work
11.3 Procedures for Determining Surplus Staffing
11.4 Off-Site Allowance
11.5 External Teachers
11.6 Management Allowances
Part Twelve Health and Safety
12.1 General
12.2 Protective Clothing
12.3 Safety Glasses
12.4 Immunisation
Appendix A Salary Credits for Calculating Equivalent Service
1.1 General
1.2 Definitions
1.3 Other Teaching Service
1.4 Relevant Work Experience Other Than Teaching
1.5 Childcare
1.6 Māori Language Trainees and Te Atākura Graduates
Appendix B Medical Retirement – Serious Illness
Appendix C Removal Expenses
1.1 Travel Expenses
1.2 Accommodation Expenses
1.3 Furniture Removal
1.4 Amount of Refund
1.5 Reserved
1.6 Legal Fees and Land Agent’s Commission
1.7 Penalty Mortgage Repayment Charges
1.8 Transfer Grant
1.9 Leave to Remove Dependants and Effects
1.10 Payment of Expenses to Visit Prospective Accommodation
1.11 Telephone Reconnection Charges
Appendix D General Expenses Allowances and Reimbursements
Appendix E Leave Calculation
1.1 Commencing and Finishing Dates
1.2 Leave at the Start of the School Year
1.3 Weekends and Statutory Holidays
1.4 Vacations
1.5 Special Provisions for Sick Leave
1.6 Reductions in Holiday Pay for Sick Leave Without Pay
1.7 Teacher Temporarily Working Reduced Hours on Account of Sickness
Appendix F Reserved
Appendix G Staffing Mergers
1.1 Operation of staffing merger processes
1.2 Staffing needs analysis
1.3 Expressions of interest
1.4 Voluntary Options
1.5 Staffing merger
1.6 Re-assignment to Functionally Equivalent Positions
1.7 Reconfirmation
1.8 Unfilled Positions
1.9 Notice and Disestablishment of positions
1.10 Units
Appendix H Surplus Staffing Procedures
Unit Holders
Terms of Settlement
1. Lump Sum Payment
2. Base Scale Salary
3. Unit Rates
4. Middle Management Allowances
5. Middle Management Allowances – The Correspondence School
6. Senior Management Allowances
7. Specialist Classroom Teachers
8 9 Regional Health School Teachers and Resource Teachers
10. Study Support Grants
11. Sabbatical Leave
12. Medical Retirement serious illness
13. Head of Department Time Allowance
14. Careers Advisors Allowance
15. Service Increment
16. Kapa Haka
17. Leave for partner to attend the birth of their child
18. Meal allowance
19. Overseas teacher time allowance
20. The Correspondence School surplus staffing provisions
21. Class size
22. Non-contact time for units
23. Part-time non-contact
24. Special Duties Increment Allowance
25. Employee Assistance Programme
26. Qualifications for salary purposes
27. Start of year reference
28. Student Loan Repayment
29. Association Leave
30. Stationery for Teachers’ Use
32. Health and Safety
33. Salary assessment
34. Technical Matters
Appendix to the Terms of Settlement
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Content last updated:
10 March 2010
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