People and employment
This directory page connects you to information about being employed in a school. This includes employment agreements, and details about pay, leave and personal development.
- Pay equity
- Become a teacher or return to teaching
- Principals and teachers
- Non-teaching staff
- Employment agreements
- Pay, leave and personal development
Pay equity
Pay equity means that people are paid equally for doing work of equal value.
This can be a challenging concept because achieving pay equity means we have to compare the way that we value and pay for work that we perceive to be very different – such as teacher aides and correction officers.
By comparing the work and pay of female-dominated occupations with male-dominated occupations, pay equity ensures that workers in female-dominated occupations receive pay that properly recognises the value of the work that they do.
Current education sector pay equity claims
Become a teacher or return to teaching
Find information on how to become a teacher, return to teaching or find a teaching job. You'll also find information on registration, practising certificates and LATs, and information for teachers overseas who want to teach in New Zealand.
Become a teacher or return to teaching
Principals and teachers
Employment information for principals and teachers of primary, secondary, area school, kindergarten, and Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu early childhood teachers. Also information about police vetting, performance management and scholarships, awards and funding for people working in schools.
Non-teaching staff
Employment information, including police vetting and performance management, for:
- support staff
- caretakers, cleaners and canteen staff
- groundstaff
- Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu specialist and support staff
- special residential school non-teaching staff
- Kaiarahi i te Reo, therapists, ATSSD and special education assistants
- foreign language assistants, and
- adult and community education staff.
Employment agreements
All collective agreements for:
- principals and teachers of primary, secondary, area schools and kindergartens
- Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu early childhood teachers
- adult and community education staff
- support staff
- caretakers, cleaners, and canteen staff
- groundstaff
- Kaiarahi i te Reo, therapists, ATSSD special education assistants
- employees at special residential schools and specialists and support staff at Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu.
Also individual employment agreements, and special terms or conditions (concurrence).
Pay, leave and personal development
Information about pay, allowances, superannuation, non-teaching time, leave, professional development, surplus staffing and leaving your job.
Pay, leave and personal development
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