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