Thursday, 21 April 2011

Review Summary: Staff Leave


We were pleased, again, to see a large number of reviews for this topic. Both the content and the implementation were rated highly and we have made a few changes to the topic as a result of review comments. The draft topic is on the Demo site and will be rolled out on May 31.
This topic was reviewed in Term 1, 2011, by boards and staff.
We were pleased, again, to see a large number of reviews for this topic. Both the content and the implementation were rated highly and we have made a few changes to the topic as a result of review comments. The draft topic is on the Demo site and will be rolled out on May 31.
Several reviewers questioned details such as the number of days leave in the different categories in the table, and who the leave is administered by. These are details that do vary from school to school and if advised, we can change it for your school. Look at the topic on the Model School site (http://model.schooldocs.co.nz/381.htm) and you’ll see where the variable data is. Use your admin username and password to get in. Note that the topic on the Model site is the old one but the areas for variable data are unchanged in the new one.
As you’re aware, the Holidays Act has been amended this year and now allows employees to apply to cash in a week of their annual leave. Employers are not obliged to grant this and we have followed NZSTA’s advice that boards should decline such requests. We’re interested to hear your feedback about this.
We have changed the way we link to the Collective Agreements by creating a link to the relevant page on the Ministry of Education’s website, and separated them from the list of Relevant Legislation. As always, we urge boards to look at their school's specific implementation comments and discuss as appropriate.

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