Banking Staffing - Holiday Pay

Holiday pay

Vacation periods are included in banking staffing usage.

Please note that schools' FTTE entitlements encompass the full staffing year, including school vacations. Schools should take these factors into account when planning staff usage, noting that the holiday pay charged to a school's staffing when a teacher resigns/ceases usually balances out over the summer holiday period.

Teaching staff are entitled to be paid holiday pay on resignation/cessation from the teaching service. This includes long term relieving staff when they complete a fixed term employment period. The holiday pay calculation is based upon how much of the current school year the teacher has worked, and how much "holiday pay" they have already received due to school vacations throughout that year.

The attached holiday pay graph represents how the Ministry is treating holiday pay and its impact on banking staffing. The staffing costs that a school is charged for the holiday pay of a resigning teacher is capped in Terms 1, 2 and 3.

This capping routine does not cover all incidences and some overlap of the FTTE usage calculations for holiday pay for a resigning teacher and their replacement may occur. This can occur where a staff member resigns from the service, is paid holiday pay, and the vacant position is filled by a teacher in continuous service recruited from another school. In such situations the newly recruited teacher brings with them their full holiday pay entitlement. When notified by the school, the Ministry in these cases will manually adjust the school's banking staffing usage.

Note, however, there will be no Ministry adjustment where a staff member resigns from the service and is replaced by a teacher who is not in continuous service.

More information on FTTE conversion can be found via the download at the bottom of the page. This chart breaks FTTEs down into hours, days and weeks.

To go to the ministry page on Banking Staffing, click here.