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Enterprise Bargaining Information SessionDepartment of Education and Training Teachers’ Certified Agreement 2009
Background
• The Queensland Government and Queensland Teachers’ Union reached in-principle agreement for a replacement teachers’ certified agreement on 6 November 2009 subject to members’ endorsement
• Further to union vote, the Department of Education and Training now required to conduct a formal ballot for certification by the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission
Ballot process• Ballot to be conducted from the start of week three, Term 1
(Monday 8 February 2010)– Electronic ballot (e-ballot) to be sent to eligible employees with
active email addresses– Eligible employees on leave or without active email addresses will
receive a postal ballot
• See www.education.qld.gov.au/teacher-agreement for:– copy of proposed agreement– information on e-ballot process– PowerPoint presentation– schedule of information seminars
Key changes in proposed agreement
• Annual salary increases• Additional payments• New Classroom Teacher classification• Temporary Teachers: vacation pay,
permanency• Professional matters• National Partnership Agreements
Annual salary increases
• Total salary increase of 12.5%– 4.5% from 1 July 2009– 4% from 1 July 2010– 4% from 1 July 2011
Additional payments• School Leaders (Stream 3): Additional 2.5%
from 1 July 2011 for increased responsibility, accountability in delivery of improved student outcomes
• Heads of Program (Stream 2): Additional 2.5% from 1 July 2011 for increased responsibility in implementing educational initiatives
Additional payments (cont.)
• Adjustment of Beginning Teacher salary (Band 2, Step 1) to $56,900 by 1 July 2011
• One-off payment of $500 to be paid as salary in the first pay period after 1 July 2010 for teachers classified from Band 2, Step 2 to Band 3, Step 4
New Classroom Teacher classification
• Creation of a new Classroom Teacher classification (Band 4, Step 1) from 1 July 2010
• Selection process, including position description, to be finalised by Department and Union no later than 1 April 2010
• Personal, tenured classification accessible through merit selection process by:
– four-year trained teachers with four or more years’ satisfactory service as a Senior Teacher
– three-year trained teacher with seven or more years’ satisfactory service as Senior Teacher
• Union represented at each step of merit selection process
Temporary Teachers: vacation pay
• Enhanced summer vacation pay entitlement for Temporary Teachers with at least 100 days’ service in a school year including at least ten days in Term 4
• Paid leave calculated on basis of pro rata of 4 weeks’ salary, for example:– 150 days’ temporary work including 10 days in
Term Four = 15 days’ summer vacation pay
Temporary Teachers: permanency
• Temporary Teachers with three years’ continuous service to be offered permanent position– May include up to 20% supply within any one
school year– Breaks in employment not to exceed a total of
three months during school terms• Position may not be at current location,
subject to usual transfer requirements
Professional matters• Roll-out of compulsory induction/introduction
programs for Beginning Teachers– Where Beginning Teachers required to attend, treated as
rostered duty time
• Phased implementation of Developing Performance Framework
• Managing Unsatisfactory Performance processes and procedures to be reviewed– Review to develop separate processes for Classroom
Teachers, Heads of Program and School Leaders
National Partnership Agreements• Literacy and/or Numeracy Coaches• Summer School Special Payment• Memoranda of Agreements including:
– Incentives for high-quality teachers and graduates– Development of agreed standards, recognition processes for
Accomplished and Leading Teachers– Staffing arrangements and conditions for “University Training
Schools”, including consideration of additional coordination and non-contact time
Ballot process• Ballot to be conducted from the start of week three, Term 1
(Monday 8 February 2010)– Electronic ballot (e-ballot) to be sent to eligible employees with
active email addresses– Eligible employees on leave or without active email addresses will
receive a postal ballot
• See www.education.qld.gov.au/teacher-agreement for:– copy of proposed agreement– information on e-ballot process– PowerPoint presentation– schedule of information seminars
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