2019
TAFE GA 2019
General Agreement
Top achievements for TAFE members
Workload
Job security
Above Base Grade
Commitments to examine class sizes, student curriculum hours and implement timetabling principles
Lecturers will be able to be made permanent any time after initial contract, regardless of reason for contract, and need not reapply for same position
Current entitlement to be in Agreement, prior hours of casual service to be taken into account when determining commencement salary
Parental leave superannuation
Progression
ARD for part-time lecturers
Break in service extended
New leave
Paid superannuation on unpaid component of parental leave – up to 12 weeks
Recognition of prior learning
To be listed under teaching duties
No bar to grade progression after completion of Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
Long service leave and personal leave reinstated for breaks in service of up to six months
Current entitlement to be in Agreement, 7.5 hours off-site ARD is not applied pro-rata to part-time lecturers
Cultural leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and blood/plasma donors leave Western Teacher
July 2020
19
