❓ Mr. Castrilli questions the Minister for Education and Training regarding a new salary package offer for teachers, specifically regarding eligibility for the $100,000 salary, average salary increases, and the union's reasons for rejecting the initial offer. The Minister's response focuses on ongoing negotiations and criticizes the Commonwealth's proposed system.
AnsweredQoN 720Legislative Assembly
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TEACHERS -
NEW SALARY PACKAGE OFFER
720. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI to the Minister for Education and
Training:
I refer to the minister's claim on 15 November that
he made a massive pay offer to Western Australian teachers.
(1) How many
teachers will actually be eligible for the $100 000 salary package offer by the
end of the government's term?
(2) What
increase in salary can the average teacher expect next year?
(3) What
reasons did the State School Teachers' Union of Western Australia give
for rejecting the minister's initial offer?
NEW SALARY PACKAGE OFFER
720. Mr G.M. CASTRILLI to the Minister for Education and
Training:
I refer to the minister's claim on 15 November that
he made a massive pay offer to Western Australian teachers.
(1) How many
teachers will actually be eligible for the $100 000 salary package offer by the
end of the government's term?
(2) What
increase in salary can the average teacher expect next year?
(3) What
reasons did the State School Teachers' Union of Western Australia give
for rejecting the minister's initial offer?
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(1)-(3) This
is a matter subject to negotiation with the school teachers'
union. It is quite normal practice for
there to be ongoing discussion and debate between the employer and the
union. I do not think that is at all
unusual.
Mr
P.D. Omodei interjected.
Mr
M. McGOWAN : Mr Potatohead is going
on again!
Normal negotiation and debate is taking place between the
state government and the State School Teachers' Union of Western
Australia. We have created a new class
that we are calling executive teachers, who will be independently assessed as
having reached the pinnacle of the profession in the classroom. These teachers will be paid annual salaries
of $100 000. Over four years, 200
teachers will be raised to that level. That is in addition to the level 3 classroom teachers, who will also be
paid according to an independently assessed performance measure. The senior teachers in categories 1 and 2 are
below that level, followed by the eight levels of classroom teachers from graduates
to year 8. We are trying to create a
fairly long career path in the classroom. I would have thought the Liberal Party would support that. It is quite different from the system being
proposed by the commonwealth government, which has said that, if it is
re-elected, it will enforce upon the state governments a system under which
every teacher will be judged according to the results for the children in his
or her class. Therefore, teachers in
country schools and/or not-so-affluent metropolitan schools will be paid less
under the model proposed by Julie Bishop. Teachers need to understand that that is being put out there by the
commonwealth government, and will be enforced on the state government by way of
the 10 per cent of funding the commonwealth gives to state education systems if
the federal government is re-elected. The state's entire offer is worth some $600 million, and will be
different according to the level of teaching reached, so I cannot provide an
exact figure. However, I can say that it
is much higher than what was accepted by the union last time, and is far bigger
than anything that was offered by the previous government.
is a matter subject to negotiation with the school teachers'
union. It is quite normal practice for
there to be ongoing discussion and debate between the employer and the
union. I do not think that is at all
unusual.
Mr
P.D. Omodei interjected.
Mr
M. McGOWAN : Mr Potatohead is going
on again!
Normal negotiation and debate is taking place between the
state government and the State School Teachers' Union of Western
Australia. We have created a new class
that we are calling executive teachers, who will be independently assessed as
having reached the pinnacle of the profession in the classroom. These teachers will be paid annual salaries
of $100 000. Over four years, 200
teachers will be raised to that level. That is in addition to the level 3 classroom teachers, who will also be
paid according to an independently assessed performance measure. The senior teachers in categories 1 and 2 are
below that level, followed by the eight levels of classroom teachers from graduates
to year 8. We are trying to create a
fairly long career path in the classroom. I would have thought the Liberal Party would support that. It is quite different from the system being
proposed by the commonwealth government, which has said that, if it is
re-elected, it will enforce upon the state governments a system under which
every teacher will be judged according to the results for the children in his
or her class. Therefore, teachers in
country schools and/or not-so-affluent metropolitan schools will be paid less
under the model proposed by Julie Bishop. Teachers need to understand that that is being put out there by the
commonwealth government, and will be enforced on the state government by way of
the 10 per cent of funding the commonwealth gives to state education systems if
the federal government is re-elected. The state's entire offer is worth some $600 million, and will be
different according to the level of teaching reached, so I cannot provide an
exact figure. However, I can say that it
is much higher than what was accepted by the union last time, and is far bigger
than anything that was offered by the previous government.
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