Librarians and library assistants' and science technicians' pay equity settlement funding

Learn about how the librarians and library assistants' and science technicians' pay equity settlements will be funded.

• About the claim and funding
• Settlement funding instalment timeline
• Settlement funding calculations for new schools and kura
• Wage and salary funding sources
• More information

About the claim and funding

The librarians and library assistants' and science technicians' pay equity claims were settled on 6 March 2023. They are effective from 23 November 2022.

Covered employees in state and state-integrated schools and kura, including those who may have finished their job on or after 23 November 2022 and started another position at another school, or left the workforce entirely, are included in the settlement.

We provide the additional pay equity funding required to translate covered employees from the old pay scale to the new pay equity pay scale. This is a 'point-to-point' translation following the translation rules of the settlement. Point-to-point means that covered employees will be transferred from their point on the previous position elements table to the equivalent point on the pay equity work matrix.

Ongoing funding will be provided to schools and kura to cover the increased cost of the settlements. This funding is paid as part of your quarterly operational grant instalments. The first instalment was paid on 1 July 2023.

Schools and kura are required to use the additional settlement funding to apply the pay equity outcomes and new pay rates.

Settlement funding instalment timeline

• 1 July 2023: Q3 2023 estimated settlement funding instalment and 2022 final wash-up.
• 1 October 2023: Q4 2023 estimated settlement funding instalment.
• 1 January 2024: Q1 2024 estimated settlement funding instalment.
• 1 April 2024: Q2 2024 estimated settlement funding instalment.
• 1 July 2024: Q3 2024 estimated settlement funding instalment and 2023 final wash-up.

Non-Education Payroll schools and kura

If you do not pay your covered employees through the central Education Payroll system, we will use information already collected from you about any covered employees you employed in 2022 to estimate the additional pay equity funding.

Settlement funding calculations for new schools and kura

For schools and kura that opened in late 2022 and during 2023, we will estimate your covered employees’ pay equity funding based on an existing school of a similar type, including location, number of learning support students and size. This estimate will be adjusted during the wash-up process.

Wage and salary funding sources

We know that schools and kura receive funding from different sources to employ their covered employees.

We will provide pay equity funding for all covered employees regardless of the funding source. The settlement has no direct impact on these sources of funding.

We are talking to other agencies to let them know about the pay equity settlement and the new pay equity rates, but this does not guarantee that other agencies will increase their funding. If you have questions about funding that you receive from another agency, please contact them directly.

Ongoing funding

We will continue to provide ongoing settlement funding to schools and kura for the librarians and library assistants' and science technicians' pay equity claims settlement.

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