Promotions restructuring will bring gains

by Brenda Seymour

If Federation is successful with its salaries claim, teachers in promotions positions will get far in excess of the minimum percentage in the overall salaries claim.

The claim includes restructuring of promotions positions, which the union also sought in previous salaries rounds.

In 2002, under joint Department of Education and Training (DET) and Federation working parties, Federation sought alignment of assistant principal (AP); primary principal 6 (PP6); district guidance officer (DGO); head teacher high (HTH); head teacher central (HTC); teacher in charge grade 1, Environmental Education Centre or hospital school (TIC1) with the salaries to be increased:

a) from January 1, 2004, to the senior education officer class 1 year 1 rate
b) from January 1, 2005, to the senior education officer class 1 year 2 rate
c) from January 1, 2006, to the senior education officer class 1 year 3 rate
To illustrate the benefits of the restructure, had the restructure been achieved to commence at the start of 2004, the salaries would now be those shown at January 1, 2005 in the first column, instead of the current rates shown in the second column.

*SEO1 Year 2

†With an additional $500 annual allowance.

Federation also sought an alignment of deputy principal primary (DPP); deputy principal central (DPC); primary principal 5 (PP5); teacher in charge grade 2, Environmental Education Centre or hospital school (TIC2) with the salaries to be increased from January 1 2004, to deputy principal high (DPH).

If the restructure had been achieved at the start of 2004, the salaries would now be those shown at January 1, 2005 in the first column, instead of the current rates shown in the second column.

#DPH

†With an additional $500 annual allowance.

Similarly, a restructure was proposed for TAFE such that the new classification head teacher in TAFE band 1 (NCHT1) would be aligned with the head teacher (HT) TAFE (old classification) step 2 and the new classification head teacher 2 (NCHT2) in TAFE band 2, would be aligned with the senior head teacher (SHT) TAFE (old classification) step 2, again had this been achieved the salaries would be those shown at January 1, 2005 in the first column, instead of the current rates shown in the second column.

• a new model of release for primary executive on the basis of an additional 0.2 release from face-to-face teaching for AP/PP6 and an additional 0.5 release from face-to-face teaching for DPP/PP5;
• the provision of additional release for all primary schools on the basis of 0.1 release for each six full time equivalent teachers or part thereof.

Federation and the Department of Education and Training also considered the appointment of a third deputy principal to large high schools and high school principals' salaries rates and principal allowances were examined with the Federation's claim being that PP5s and PP6s should be provided with a $500 annual principal's allowance.

Federation's overall salaries claim needs to be seen in the context of these restructuring claims being a part of the current claim.

Federation's claim is one informed by an analysis of the outcome of 17 years of bargaining where head teachers high and those at the top of the common incremental salaries scale have trailed at the bottom of the outcome for various classifications. Primary principal 3, primary principal 4 and primary principal 1 hold the top three spots for the best outcome over 17 years.

Brenda Seymour is the Assistant General Secretary (Research and Industrial).

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