Adult and Community Education (ACE) Staff in Schools' Collective Agreement

3.1.1 The minimum hourly rates for tutors are as follows:

3.1.2 Application of salaries – A tutor shall be placed on salary step 1 unless:

1. The tutor satisfies the co-ordinator he or she has either successfully completed a recognised course in the tutoring of adults or holds a Diploma of Teaching, and has at least 100 hours of adult tutoring experience; or
2. The tutor has completed 200 hours of ACE tutoring; or
3. The tutor was placed on step 2 of the salary scale prior to this agreement coming into force.

Where (i), (ii) or (iii) above apply, a tutor shall be placed on step 2.

Note: Where a tutor is also a fully registered teacher nothing in 3.1.2(i) shall prevent an employer choosing to place that teacher on step 2.

3.1.3 Subject to verification, other experience of tutoring adult students (including in continuing education programmes, polytechnics, universities, colleges of education, and equivalent organisations either in New Zealand or overseas) shall be considered as relevant experience for placement on step 2 under 3.1.2 (i) and (ii).

3.1.4 Cancelled ACE classes - tutors of classes that are cancelled because no students attend shall be paid for one hour only regardless of the normal duration of the class.  If the tutor can be notified beforehand of the cancellation of the class, no payment will be made.

3.2.1 Teaching Co-ordinators in all ACE programmes shall (except as provided in 3.2.2) be given a time allowance based on the size of their position, as set out below:

Note 1:The employer shall specify in writing the hours a teaching co-ordinator is required to work in her/his programme co-ordinator position. The hours will be set in accordance with the requirements of the role within the school. Criteria to be considered when sizing the position shall include;

1. number of planned courses in the programme
2. whether the programme receives TEC funding
3. amount of administrative support

Note 2: The above time allowances for a teaching co-ordinator are based on a teacher’s weekly timetabled hours (e.g., 25 hours per week in the Secondary Teachers’ Collective Agreement, see clause 5.2.2).

3.2.2 The remuneration rates (and related time allowance) for a Teaching Co-ordinator who is not concurrently employed as a teacher within the school are the relevant rates within the applicable teachers’ collective agreement. That employee’s other conditions are as per this agreement (including Clause 7.3) except where more advantageous conditions are agreed in writing with the employer.

3.2.3 The minimum hourly rate of pay for non-teaching co-ordinators (see Part Two) shall be as follows:

Note 1: The employer shall specify in writing the hours a non-teaching co-ordinator is required to work and the grading of the position (see Part Two). The hours will be set in accordance with the requirements of the role within the school. Criteria to be considered when sizing the position shall include;

1. number of planned courses in the programme
2. whether the programme receives TEC funding
3. amount of administrative support

Where the position is fixed term it must conform with clause 1.7 of this agreement.

Note 2:The Grade Three rate will only apply to appointments made after 2 January 2008. It was seen as potentially linked to previous Staffing Order positions and does not prevent an employer from choosing to pay a higher rate, where relevant, comparable to that of the previous incumbent.

3.2.4 In addition to the time allowances/salary outlined in 3.2.1 and the rate specified in 3.2.3, the co-ordinator with overall responsibility for the programme shall be entitled to receive a responsibility allowance paid at the rate set out in the table below unless he or she holds a permanent or fixed term unit or units (or 3R payments) for ACE which exceed the relevant payment listed below:

The ACE professional supervisors' minimum hourly rate of pay is as follows:

The co-ordinator assistants' minimum hourly rate of pay is as follows: