New enterprise agreement for standalone TAFE members

After intense negotiations in recent weeks, we are very pleased to advise that the AEU's elected TAFE Committee last night endorsed an in-principle agreement for TAFE teachers.
 
The new agreement will: 

  • Deliver a 5.4% salary increase for all classifications in the first year with further increases of 2.7% in May and November in 2019, 2020, and 2021. This is a total increase of 23.7% over 4 years.
  • Introduce mandatory work plans which will give members much better control over their workload and ensure all elements of their work are counted in their annual hours.
  • Limit annual teaching to 800 hours per year with a further 400 hours provided to the teacher to undertake planning, preparation, curriculum development, and assessment specifically in relation to their class(es) and student(s).
  • Maintain the existing limit of 42 weeks of attendance, with 30 hours of required attendance in each week.
  • A new conversion clause, which introduces a an annual centrally conducted conversion review by each TAFE institute in April, will result in significant numbers of casual and fixed-term employees being converted to more secure employment. The AEU and VTA will work together on transitional arrangements in 2018 for existing casual employees.
  • Set the span of hours from 6am to 10pm Monday to Friday, and 9am to 5pm Saturday, with teachers compensated with a reduction off their annual teaching hours for working unsociable hours.
  • Establish overtime for any work outside the maximum hours.
  • Provide for 20 days family violence leave for teachers experiencing family violence.

The salary increases mean a teacher at the T5 classification will see their salary increase from the current $85,613 to $105,877 by November 2021 - meaning that our teachers will become some of the highest paid in the country. Teachers with a full AQF6+ teaching qualification will also be able to access a further incremental point which has a salary of $109,207 by the end of the agreement.

This agreement will apply to all standalone TAFE institutes.

The AEU TAFE Committee also endorsed a program of sub-branch meetings to inform members about the in-principle agreement ahead of an employee ballot to vote on the new deal.  

Members will be provided with a copy of the agreement as soon as the final technical drafting has been completed, as well as further advice and information as it is developed.

AEU members' support, activism and campaign has been the reason we have been able to reach a very good in-principle agreement which respects the important work that TAFE teachers do every day and provides the recognition that they deserve. The agreement also better recognises the central part of their role – ensuring students are properly supported to achieve the best possible education and training that they can.

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