Staffing Incentive Allowance
Eligibility
A staffing incentive allowance of $1,000.00 pa is payable to teachers employed in schools holding Staffing Incentive Status where they are:
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- full-time permanent teachers receiving fewer than five permanent units
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- full-time permanent teachers receiving fewer than five permanent units
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- full-time long term and other relieving teachers (continuous service - minimum period two terms equivalent); or
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- itinerant music teacher in Southland, provided the majority of schools serviced by the teacher have Staffing Incentive Status
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- long term relievers receiving fewer than three permanent management units (continuous service - minimum period two terms equivalent)
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- long term relievers (retrospectively after continuous service - minimum period two terms equivalent)
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Exclusions
Primary teachers receiving the Priority Teacher Supply Allowance are not eligible.
Period of allowance
Teachers receiving the Staffing Incentive Allowance (except for long-term relievers and ESS teachers) under the location or serious staffing difficulties provisions are entitled to receive the allowance for a minimum of three years in any individual school holding Staffing Incentive Status.
Long-term relievers and ESS teachers in secondary schools will receive the allowance retrospectively after they have completed a minimum period of two school terms of continuous service in a school or schools holding Staffing Incentive Status. They may then be paid the allowance fortnightly as long as they maintain continuous service in qualifying schools.
Cessation of allowance
When a school's SIA status is removed, teachers who have not received the allowance for at least three years continue to receive the allowance until the minimum period of three years is completed, provided continuous service in the same school is maintained during this time.
Payment of the allowance will cease immediately for those teachers who have already received the allowance for a period of three years or more at the time the school's SIA status ceases.
If a teacher moves to a school that does not have Staffing Incentive Status, payment of the allowance will cease immediately.
If a teacher moves to a Staffing Incentive Status school, a new minimum period of three years applies from the date the teacher commences at the new school.