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Short-term relief teachers’ two-hour remediation update
On 17 September 2024 (in pay period 13), 330 current short-term relief teachers will receive the top-up they are owed for the short-term relief teacher two-hour minimum.
From 3 September 2024, the Ministry of Education will be contacting former short-term relief teachers who they believe are due remediation for the short-term relief teacher two-hour minimum contractual entitlement. The former employees will be asked to confirm their details, so we can process the payment correctly.
There will be no impact on your school budget
There will be no impact on your school budget and the payment will not appear on your Staff Usage and Expenditure (SUE) report or other school documentation.
Why do we need to make short-term relief teacher two-hour remediation payments?
Primary, secondary and area school teachers’ collective agreements state that short-term relief teachers will be paid for no less than two hours per day of day relief or paid leave at a school, but this has not always happened.
An improved process was put in place in August 2022 to fix this. We are now making payments to correct errors made between 17 April 2012 and 9 August 2022.
If you receive queries about the remediation, please point people to the information on the Ministry's website. For questions not covered online, please contact the Ministry’s team via the query form or by:
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