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PART 1 - APPLICATION AND OPERATION OF AGREEMENT

1.    AGREEMENT TITLE

This Agreement shall be known as the “Victorian Catholic Education Multi Employer Agreement 2008”.

2.    ARRANGEMENT

Part 1 - Application and operation of agreement

1.    Title
2.    Arrangement
3.    Term
4.    Scope and parties bound
5.    Definitions

Part 2 - General Conditions of Service

6.    Accident make-up pay
7.    Annual leave and school holiday pay and leave loading
8.    Breakages and loss
9.    Contract of employment
10.    Grievance procedures
11.    Due Process
12.    Higher duties allowances
13.    Work organisation
14.    Leave with pay   
15.    Leave without pay
16.    Parental Leave
17.    Payment of Wages and Allowances
18.    Protective Clothing
19.    Public holidays
20.    Redundancy
21.    Casual Relieving employees
22.    Replacement employees
23.    Service continuity
24.    Superannuation
25.    Termination of employment
26.    Travel and Evening Meal Allowances

Part 3 - Teachers: Salaries and Specific Conditions of Service

27.    Wages, Definitions, allowances and workload
28.    Teacher classification structure and incremental progression
29.    Deputy principal classification structure and incremental progression
30.    Part-time teachers
31.    Emergency teachers
 
Part 4 - School Officers: Salaries and Specific Conditions of Service

32.    Appointment
33.    Classification
34.    Wages
35.    Experience
36.    Hours of work

Part 5 – Catholic Education office school and student services Employees: Salaries and Specific Conditions of Service

37.    Appointment
38.    Classification levels
39.    Wages
40.    Experience
41.    Hours of work
42.    Part-time education officers/senior education officers or psychologists (education) or speech pathologists

Part 6 - Primary School Principals: Salaries and Specific Conditions of Service

43.    Classification
44.    Wages
45.    Expense reimbursement

Part 7 - Catholic Education Office Clerical Employees

46.    Appointment
47.    Classification levels
48.    Wages
49.    Experience
50.    Hours of work
51.    Part-time catholic education office clerical employees

Part 8 - School Services Officers: Salaries and Specific Conditions of Service

52.    Appointment
53.    Classification
54.    Wages
55.    Hours of work
56.    Overtime
57.    Shift Penalties
58.    Broken Shifts
59.    On Call
60.    Meal Breaks
61.    Meal Allowances
62.    Tool Allowance
63.    Special Provisions for Category D School Services Officers during school holidays
64.    Alternative Individual Arrangements – Resident Caretakers

Part 9 – Other Provisions

65.    Traineeships and Trainee Wage
66.    Supported Wage
67.    Introduction of Change
68.    Education Initiatives
69.    Mandatory Provisions
70.    Lump Sum Amounts

Appendices

Appendix 1    Parental Leave Provisions and Parental Leave Payment
Appendix 2    Salary Incremental Advancement and assessment of experience
Appendix 3    Standards of Teacher Professional Practice
Appendix 4    Consultative Procedures re:  Class Sizes Scheduled Class Time Positions of Leadership
Appendix 5    Redundancy
Appendix 6    Long Service Leave
Appendix 7    Remuneration Packaging

Schedules

Schedule 1    Wages:  Registered Teachers
Schedule 2    Wages and Allowances: Deputy Principals
Schedule 3    Allowances
Schedule 4    Wages:  Emergency Teachers
Schedule 5     Wages:  School Officers
Schedule 6    Wages:  Education Officers
Schedule 7    Wages:  Principals Primary Schools
Schedule 8    Wages:  Catholic Education Office Clerical Employee
Schedule 9    Wages:  Psychologists (Education)
Schedule 10    Wages:  Speech Pathologists
Schedule 11    Wages:  School Services Officers
Schedule 12        List of Employers Bound

3.    TERM

3.1    This Agreement will commence to operate on the seventh day after the date of the notice from the Workplace Authority notifying that the Agreement has passed the no disadvantage test and its nominal expiry date will be 31 December 2011.

3.2    This Agreement regulates the terms and conditions of employment of the employees covered by this Agreement and is intended to exclude all protected award conditions (as that term is defined in the WR Act) in relation to:

(a)    rest breaks;

(b)    incentive based payments and bonuses;

(c)    annual leave loading;

(d)    observance of public holidays;

(e)    days to be substituted for, or a procedure for substituting days referred to in paragraph (d);

(f)    monetary allowances for:

(i)    expenses incurred in the course of employment; or

(ii)    responsibilities or skills that are not taken into account in rates of pay for employees; or

(iii)    disabilities associated with the performance of particular tasks or work in particular conditions or locations;

(g)    loadings for working overtime; and

(h)    penalty rates,

which are contained in any award which applies or may apply to the Employees including the Victorian Catholic Schools and Catholic Education Officers Award 1998

3.3    Nothing in this Agreement will operate to provide a less favourable outcome for employees in a particular respect than that provided by the Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard or the National Employment Standards.

3.4    The parties will make no further claims in respect of matters dealt with by this agreement which will have effect prior to 31 December 2011. Provided that, in the event a successor Agreement is not agreed by 31 December 2011, there will be a guaranteed salary increase consistent with any salary increase in Victorian Government Schools effective from the first pay period on or after 1 January 2012.

4.    PARTIES BOUND AND SCOPE

4.1    This Agreement shall apply and be binding upon:

4.1.1    the Employers listed in Schedule 12 of this Agreement; and

4.1.2    the Union.

4.2    This Agreement shall apply in its terms to the Employees of the Employers listed in Schedule 12 of this Agreement who are employed to perform work of a kind described in the classifications contained in this Agreement

5.    DEFINITIONS

5.1    “Catholic Education “means any activity directly connected with the education of persons conducted by a Catholic institution in Victoria listed in Appendix 8 of this Agreement.

5.2    “Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV)” means the body established by the Bishops of Victoria to develop policy in relation to Catholic Education in Victoria.

5.3    “Catholic primary school” means a Catholic school registered by the Registered Schools Board or its successor as a primary school and includes those schools so registered where classes are held for years up to but not beyond Year Eight.

5.4    “Catholic secondary school”  means a Catholic school with classes to Year Ten or beyond, registered by the Registered Schools Board (or its successor) as a Secondary school, Junior secondary school and includes those schools so registered where primary classes are held.

5.5    “Catholic Special school” means a Catholic school registered by the Registered Schools Board or its successor as a Special school.

5.6    “Commission” means the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.

5.7    “Employee” shall mean any person employed by an Employer who is employed to perform work of a kind described in the classifications contained in this Agreement  for the purposes of this Agreement, members of religious institutions and clergy are not Employees.

5.8    “Employer" shall mean any person, persons, or body listed in Appendix 8 of this Agreement.

5.9    “Enrolment” in respect of a particular year, means enrolment as at the Commonwealth Government’s mid-year census in the preceding year.

5.10    “Experience in relation to a registered teacher” means teaching experience after achieving the qualifications necessary for registration as a teacher with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

5.11    “Deputy Principal” means a person appointed by an Employer whether as a vice principal, deputy principal, assistant principal or campus head in a Catholic school.

5.12    “Placed Teacher” means an employee, employed in or in connection with a Catholic Education Office who is employed as a registered teacher and placed in an educational setting outside a Catholic Education Office.

5.13    “Primary class” means any class from Year Preparatory through to Year 6, inclusive.

5.14    “Psychologist (CEO)” means an employee possessing formal Psychology Qualifications employed in or in connection with a Catholic Education Office to provide diagnostic assessment and direct guidance services to individuals, schools and groups and to assist and advise school authorities in relation to students with social, behavioural, emotional and cognitive disorders.

5.15    “Registered Schools Board” means the Registered Schools Board established by the Education Act 1958 (Vic) or its successor.

5.16    “Registered Teacher” means a teacher who is registered by the Victorian Institute of Teaching pursuant to the Victorian Institute of Teaching Act 2001 (Vic).

5.17    “School Adviser” means a registered teacher who is employed in or in connection with Catholic Education Office to provide advice and assistance to Principals and the school staff in nominated curriculum areas.

5.18    “School Term” means such periods as determined by the Victorian Government from year to year.

5.19    “School Year” means the period from the commencement of the first day of the Victorian government school year in one year to the commencement of the first day of the Victorian government school year in the next year as determined by the Victorian government from year to year.

5.20    “Secondary class” means any class from Year 7 through to Year 12, inclusive.

5.21    “Union” means the Independent Education Union of Australia.

5.22    “Visiting Teacher” means a registered teacher who is employed in or in connection with a Catholic Education Office to provide consultancy support to Catholic schools and students who are hearing impaired, visually impaired, or physically disabled.  Their duties may involve direct teaching of students in addition to the above.
 
5.23    “Weekly Wage” means the annual salary as specified in the schedules to this Agreement divided by 52.18.

5.24    "WR Act" means the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth).


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