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- Secondary Principals' Collective Agreement new rates, back pay and lump sum payments
- Auto Increments screen in EdPay
- Holiday pay reduction for some teachers
- Record of yearly earnings
- Tackling phishing
1. Secondary Principals’ Collective Agreement new rates, back pay and lump sum payments
Union members on the Secondary Principals’ Collective Agreement will be paid on their new pay rates as per the agreement, from pay period 3. You'll see the new rates, as well as any back pay and lump sum payments in the pay period 3, 1st SUE report on 28 April, with the pay day on 2 May 2023.
If your secondary principal has signed a new individual employment agreement (Secondary Principal IEA), you can complete an EP22 advising us of their sign-up date, and we will begin to process these from pay period 3. Pay rates will be backdated to the date they signed.
Lump sum payments
A principal who is a union member, currently employed as at 1 December 2022, will receive the one-off gross payment of $750.
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Principal scenarios
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Union member-only lump sum entitlement (1 December 2022)
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Paid leave
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Employees who are a union member and on approved paid leave as at 1 December 2022, will receive the one-off gross payment of $750 on their return to their position providing that they return on or before the end of Term 2, 2023.
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Parental leave
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Employees who are a union member and on parental leave as at 1 December, will receive the one-off gross payment of $750 on their return to their position providing that they return on or before the end of Term 4, 2023.
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Retired/resigned from role
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A principal who resigned or retired from their position after 1 December 2022 but who was a union member and employed on 1 December 2022 will receive the one-off gross payment of $750.
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Unpaid leave (other than parental leave)
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Employees who are a union member and on approved unpaid leave as at 1 December, will receive the one-off gross payment of $750 on their return to their position providing that they return on or before the end of Term 2, 2023.
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For more information see Appendix A: Additional Payments Guidance of the Secondary Principals’ Collective Agreement (education.govt.nz)
2. Auto Increments screen in EdPay
There is a new Auto Increments screen in EdPay that lists all the support staff at your school who are eligible to receive their annual automatic salary increase (auto increment) within the next 90 days. You will be able to defer increments in EdPay, and these employees will no longer appear in the Attestation report.
Teachers, and non-teachers who are not eligible to receive yearly auto increments, will remain on the Attestation report that can be downloaded from EdPay.
Remember to regularly check the Auto Increments screen as increments can occur at different times of the year.
More information
EdPay training | deferring automatic salary increments for non-teachers (EdPay.govt.nz)
Attestation report (EdPay.govt.nz)
3. Holiday pay reduction for some teachers
If a teacher takes unpaid leave during a school term, a holiday pay reduction may be needed. At the beginning of each holiday period, holiday pay reductions are calculated for all teachers who have taken unpaid leave during the term just ended.
The holiday pay reduction will be made from the employee's pay that falls in that holiday period. Each sector has its own set of holiday pay reduction calculation rules, see more information here: holiday pay reduction for some teachers (edpay.govt.nz)
4. Record of yearly earnings
If an employee wants a record of their earnings for the 2022/2023 tax year, they can look at their pay period 26 payslip.
5. Tackling phishing
Phishing is the term used for all types of scams that bypass cyber defences by tricking people into handing over information. Scammers use it to steal money, install ransomware or steal private data. Often they are looking for passwords.
Forms of phishing have been around for almost 30 years, and have grown more and more advanced over that time. CERT NZ, the government’s Computer Emergency Response Team, lists ‘phishing’ as New Zealand’s most common type of cyber-attack: N4L have put out a great blog on tackling phishing, read the full article on the N4L website
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