❓ The Minister for Education and Training details the government's pay offer to teachers, focusing on career structure improvements, financial incentives, and non-teaching benefits, particularly for experienced teachers and those in challenging schools.
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Will the minister advise the House how the Government’s latest pay offer to teachers will impact on experienced members of the teaching profession? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I thank the member for the question. As a former teacher, he is obviously deeply interested in the outcome of the current dispute between the teachers and the State Government. Last Thursday night I met with the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA, Pat Byrne, to discuss the developing situation of the enterprise bargaining agreement negotiations. We discussed an enhanced offer that the Government had placed before the teachers’ union leadership on that day. I sought some assurance from her that that offer would be passed on to the union executive and to a meeting of union delegates on Saturday. That has happened. As yet, we have not had a positive outcome from that process. However, I am still very hopeful that we will, and I will explain why. One of the biggest issues confronting the teaching community in Western Australia is career structure. Currently, a very large number of teachers have reached the top of the pay scales for ordinary classroom teachers. In a sense, their career path is blocked, other than to progress to non-teaching duties through administrative positions. That has been a constant source of discussion between the union and me. The Government structured an arrangement in the second offer that provides an improved career structure for 6 000 teachers at the highest paid classroom level for ordinary teachers. The Government has provided two new categories or salary points: senior teachers 1 and 2. Within the structure of this deal, working off the baseline of the three per cent offer, which the Government has maintained, it would be possible for that group of teachers to move from their current level to the position of senior teacher 2 in two years or two and a half years. With professional development accreditation or courses of study, they will be able to earn an additional $8 000 in that movement. While the total package maintains its baseline of three per cent, it provides teachers an opportunity to earn between $3 000 and $8 000 extra, depending on their seniority and their place in the new career structure. In addition, the new offer contains very significant improvements in non-teaching benefits to the teaching community. For example, there will be more money for behaviour management, which is a critical issue in our government schools. This involves an additional $25 million. There will be improved career paths for teachers through a variety of mechanisms, one of which I have mentioned. There will be funding for more senior level teachers - they are the very high level advanced skills teachers. Their numbers will be expanded by more than 100. There will be increased funding for professional development, which is a critical issue for schoolteachers in our State. Through our second offer, we will provide them with improved access to better professional development. Some $2 million will be allocated to that. More schools will offer extra teacher incentives, and this involves an amount of $5 million. For the first time I have offered the teachers in state schools incentives to teach in the schools in our city that are the most difficult to work in. There are already good packages for remote schools. We have provided enhanced packages for difficult-to-staff schools in rural areas such as Meekatharra. For the very first time we have addressed the difficult-to-work-in schools in the metropolitan area by providing teachers with incentives to work and stay in those schools. That is a significant development. There will be increased non-contact time for primary school teachers, as requested - although not to the extent requested. There will be more time for administrators, so that there will be no teaching component for level 4 principals, and a range of other matters. This is a very good offer for teachers in Western Australian government schools. It is absolutely as far as the Government can go financially with its teaching community. I have put that to the teachers. I am having ongoing discussions with them. I spoke to the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA and other leaders last night, and I anticipate that I will be able to speak directly with the state executive on Thursday. It is very important for all of us to get this matter resolved. We need to provide our government schoolteachers with improved pay and conditions. We have done so. This is a very good offer. I guarantee that if this offer were presented to ordinary classroom teachers in our schools, they would accept it immediately.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for the question. As a former teacher, he is obviously deeply interested in the outcome of the current dispute between the teachers and the State Government. Last Thursday night I met with the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA, Pat Byrne, to discuss the developing situation of the enterprise bargaining agreement negotiations. We discussed an enhanced offer that the Government had placed before the teachers’ union leadership on that day. I sought some assurance from her that that offer would be passed on to the union executive and to a meeting of union delegates on Saturday. That has happened. As yet, we have not had a positive outcome from that process. However, I am still very hopeful that we will, and I will explain why. One of the biggest issues confronting the teaching community in Western Australia is career structure. Currently, a very large number of teachers have reached the top of the pay scales for ordinary classroom teachers. In a sense, their career path is blocked, other than to progress to non-teaching duties through administrative positions. That has been a constant source of discussion between the union and me. The Government structured an arrangement in the second offer that provides an improved career structure for 6 000 teachers at the highest paid classroom level for ordinary teachers. The Government has provided two new categories or salary points: senior teachers 1 and 2. Within the structure of this deal, working off the baseline of the three per cent offer, which the Government has maintained, it would be possible for that group of teachers to move from their current level to the position of senior teacher 2 in two years or two and a half years. With professional development accreditation or courses of study, they will be able to earn an additional $8 000 in that movement. While the total package maintains its baseline of three per cent, it provides teachers an opportunity to earn between $3 000 and $8 000 extra, depending on their seniority and their place in the new career structure. In addition, the new offer contains very significant improvements in non-teaching benefits to the teaching community. For example, there will be more money for behaviour management, which is a critical issue in our government schools. This involves an additional $25 million. There will be improved career paths for teachers through a variety of mechanisms, one of which I have mentioned. There will be funding for more senior level teachers - they are the very high level advanced skills teachers. Their numbers will be expanded by more than 100. There will be increased funding for professional development, which is a critical issue for schoolteachers in our State. Through our second offer, we will provide them with improved access to better professional development. Some $2 million will be allocated to that. More schools will offer extra teacher incentives, and this involves an amount of $5 million. For the first time I have offered the teachers in state schools incentives to teach in the schools in our city that are the most difficult to work in. There are already good packages for remote schools. We have provided enhanced packages for difficult-to-staff schools in rural areas such as Meekatharra. For the very first time we have addressed the difficult-to-work-in schools in the metropolitan area by providing teachers with incentives to work and stay in those schools. That is a significant development. There will be increased non-contact time for primary school teachers, as requested - although not to the extent requested. There will be more time for administrators, so that there will be no teaching component for level 4 principals, and a range of other matters. This is a very good offer for teachers in Western Australian government schools. It is absolutely as far as the Government can go financially with its teaching community. I have put that to the teachers. I am having ongoing discussions with them. I spoke to the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA and other leaders last night, and I anticipate that I will be able to speak directly with the state executive on Thursday. It is very important for all of us to get this matter resolved. We need to provide our government schoolteachers with improved pay and conditions. We have done so. This is a very good offer. I guarantee that if this offer were presented to ordinary classroom teachers in our schools, they would accept it immediately.
I thank the member for the question. As a former teacher, he is obviously deeply interested in the outcome of the current dispute between the teachers and the State Government. Last Thursday night I met with the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA, Pat Byrne, to discuss the developing situation of the enterprise bargaining agreement negotiations. We discussed an enhanced offer that the Government had placed before the teachers’ union leadership on that day. I sought some assurance from her that that offer would be passed on to the union executive and to a meeting of union delegates on Saturday. That has happened. As yet, we have not had a positive outcome from that process. However, I am still very hopeful that we will, and I will explain why. One of the biggest issues confronting the teaching community in Western Australia is career structure. Currently, a very large number of teachers have reached the top of the pay scales for ordinary classroom teachers. In a sense, their career path is blocked, other than to progress to non-teaching duties through administrative positions. That has been a constant source of discussion between the union and me. The Government structured an arrangement in the second offer that provides an improved career structure for 6 000 teachers at the highest paid classroom level for ordinary teachers. The Government has provided two new categories or salary points: senior teachers 1 and 2. Within the structure of this deal, working off the baseline of the three per cent offer, which the Government has maintained, it would be possible for that group of teachers to move from their current level to the position of senior teacher 2 in two years or two and a half years. With professional development accreditation or courses of study, they will be able to earn an additional $8 000 in that movement. While the total package maintains its baseline of three per cent, it provides teachers an opportunity to earn between $3 000 and $8 000 extra, depending on their seniority and their place in the new career structure. In addition, the new offer contains very significant improvements in non-teaching benefits to the teaching community. For example, there will be more money for behaviour management, which is a critical issue in our government schools. This involves an additional $25 million. There will be improved career paths for teachers through a variety of mechanisms, one of which I have mentioned. There will be funding for more senior level teachers - they are the very high level advanced skills teachers. Their numbers will be expanded by more than 100. There will be increased funding for professional development, which is a critical issue for schoolteachers in our State. Through our second offer, we will provide them with improved access to better professional development. Some $2 million will be allocated to that. More schools will offer extra teacher incentives, and this involves an amount of $5 million. For the first time I have offered the teachers in state schools incentives to teach in the schools in our city that are the most difficult to work in. There are already good packages for remote schools. We have provided enhanced packages for difficult-to-staff schools in rural areas such as Meekatharra. For the very first time we have addressed the difficult-to-work-in schools in the metropolitan area by providing teachers with incentives to work and stay in those schools. That is a significant development. There will be increased non-contact time for primary school teachers, as requested - although not to the extent requested. There will be more time for administrators, so that there will be no teaching component for level 4 principals, and a range of other matters. This is a very good offer for teachers in Western Australian government schools. It is absolutely as far as the Government can go financially with its teaching community. I have put that to the teachers. I am having ongoing discussions with them. I spoke to the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA and other leaders last night, and I anticipate that I will be able to speak directly with the state executive on Thursday. It is very important for all of us to get this matter resolved. We need to provide our government schoolteachers with improved pay and conditions. We have done so. This is a very good offer. I guarantee that if this offer were presented to ordinary classroom teachers in our schools, they would accept it immediately.
One of the biggest issues confronting the teaching community in Western Australia is career structure. Currently, a very large number of teachers have reached the top of the pay scales for ordinary classroom teachers. In a sense, their career path is blocked, other than to progress to non-teaching duties through administrative positions. That has been a constant source of discussion between the union and me. The Government structured an arrangement in the second offer that provides an improved career structure for 6 000 teachers at the highest paid classroom level for ordinary teachers. The Government has provided two new categories or salary points: senior teachers 1 and 2. Within the structure of this deal, working off the baseline of the three per cent offer, which the Government has maintained, it would be possible for that group of teachers to move from their current level to the position of senior teacher 2 in two years or two and a half years. With professional development accreditation or courses of study, they will be able to earn an additional $8 000 in that movement. While the total package maintains its baseline of three per cent, it provides teachers an opportunity to earn between $3 000 and $8 000 extra, depending on their seniority and their place in the new career structure. In addition, the new offer contains very significant improvements in non-teaching benefits to the teaching community. For example, there will be more money for behaviour management, which is a critical issue in our government schools. This involves an additional $25 million. There will be improved career paths for teachers through a variety of mechanisms, one of which I have mentioned. There will be funding for more senior level teachers - they are the very high level advanced skills teachers. Their numbers will be expanded by more than 100. There will be increased funding for professional development, which is a critical issue for schoolteachers in our State. Through our second offer, we will provide them with improved access to better professional development. Some $2 million will be allocated to that. More schools will offer extra teacher incentives, and this involves an amount of $5 million. For the first time I have offered the teachers in state schools incentives to teach in the schools in our city that are the most difficult to work in. There are already good packages for remote schools. We have provided enhanced packages for difficult-to-staff schools in rural areas such as Meekatharra. For the very first time we have addressed the difficult-to-work-in schools in the metropolitan area by providing teachers with incentives to work and stay in those schools. That is a significant development. There will be increased non-contact time for primary school teachers, as requested - although not to the extent requested. There will be more time for administrators, so that there will be no teaching component for level 4 principals, and a range of other matters. This is a very good offer for teachers in Western Australian government schools. It is absolutely as far as the Government can go financially with its teaching community. I have put that to the teachers. I am having ongoing discussions with them. I spoke to the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA and other leaders last night, and I anticipate that I will be able to speak directly with the state executive on Thursday. It is very important for all of us to get this matter resolved. We need to provide our government schoolteachers with improved pay and conditions. We have done so. This is a very good offer. I guarantee that if this offer were presented to ordinary classroom teachers in our schools, they would accept it immediately.
The Government structured an arrangement in the second offer that provides an improved career structure for 6 000 teachers at the highest paid classroom level for ordinary teachers. The Government has provided two new categories or salary points: senior teachers 1 and 2. Within the structure of this deal, working off the baseline of the three per cent offer, which the Government has maintained, it would be possible for that group of teachers to move from their current level to the position of senior teacher 2 in two years or two and a half years. With professional development accreditation or courses of study, they will be able to earn an additional $8 000 in that movement. While the total package maintains its baseline of three per cent, it provides teachers an opportunity to earn between $3 000 and $8 000 extra, depending on their seniority and their place in the new career structure. In addition, the new offer contains very significant improvements in non-teaching benefits to the teaching community. For example, there will be more money for behaviour management, which is a critical issue in our government schools. This involves an additional $25 million. There will be improved career paths for teachers through a variety of mechanisms, one of which I have mentioned. There will be funding for more senior level teachers - they are the very high level advanced skills teachers. Their numbers will be expanded by more than 100. There will be increased funding for professional development, which is a critical issue for schoolteachers in our State. Through our second offer, we will provide them with improved access to better professional development. Some $2 million will be allocated to that. More schools will offer extra teacher incentives, and this involves an amount of $5 million. For the first time I have offered the teachers in state schools incentives to teach in the schools in our city that are the most difficult to work in. There are already good packages for remote schools. We have provided enhanced packages for difficult-to-staff schools in rural areas such as Meekatharra. For the very first time we have addressed the difficult-to-work-in schools in the metropolitan area by providing teachers with incentives to work and stay in those schools. That is a significant development. There will be increased non-contact time for primary school teachers, as requested - although not to the extent requested. There will be more time for administrators, so that there will be no teaching component for level 4 principals, and a range of other matters. This is a very good offer for teachers in Western Australian government schools. It is absolutely as far as the Government can go financially with its teaching community. I have put that to the teachers. I am having ongoing discussions with them. I spoke to the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA and other leaders last night, and I anticipate that I will be able to speak directly with the state executive on Thursday. It is very important for all of us to get this matter resolved. We need to provide our government schoolteachers with improved pay and conditions. We have done so. This is a very good offer. I guarantee that if this offer were presented to ordinary classroom teachers in our schools, they would accept it immediately.
This is a very good offer for teachers in Western Australian government schools. It is absolutely as far as the Government can go financially with its teaching community. I have put that to the teachers. I am having ongoing discussions with them. I spoke to the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA and other leaders last night, and I anticipate that I will be able to speak directly with the state executive on Thursday. It is very important for all of us to get this matter resolved. We need to provide our government schoolteachers with improved pay and conditions. We have done so. This is a very good offer. I guarantee that if this offer were presented to ordinary classroom teachers in our schools, they would accept it immediately.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for the question. As a former teacher, he is obviously deeply interested in the outcome of the current dispute between the teachers and the State Government. Last Thursday night I met with the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA, Pat Byrne, to discuss the developing situation of the enterprise bargaining agreement negotiations. We discussed an enhanced offer that the Government had placed before the teachers’ union leadership on that day. I sought some assurance from her that that offer would be passed on to the union executive and to a meeting of union delegates on Saturday. That has happened. As yet, we have not had a positive outcome from that process. However, I am still very hopeful that we will, and I will explain why. One of the biggest issues confronting the teaching community in Western Australia is career structure. Currently, a very large number of teachers have reached the top of the pay scales for ordinary classroom teachers. In a sense, their career path is blocked, other than to progress to non-teaching duties through administrative positions. That has been a constant source of discussion between the union and me. The Government structured an arrangement in the second offer that provides an improved career structure for 6 000 teachers at the highest paid classroom level for ordinary teachers. The Government has provided two new categories or salary points: senior teachers 1 and 2. Within the structure of this deal, working off the baseline of the three per cent offer, which the Government has maintained, it would be possible for that group of teachers to move from their current level to the position of senior teacher 2 in two years or two and a half years. With professional development accreditation or courses of study, they will be able to earn an additional $8 000 in that movement. While the total package maintains its baseline of three per cent, it provides teachers an opportunity to earn between $3 000 and $8 000 extra, depending on their seniority and their place in the new career structure. In addition, the new offer contains very significant improvements in non-teaching benefits to the teaching community. For example, there will be more money for behaviour management, which is a critical issue in our government schools. This involves an additional $25 million. There will be improved career paths for teachers through a variety of mechanisms, one of which I have mentioned. There will be funding for more senior level teachers - they are the very high level advanced skills teachers. Their numbers will be expanded by more than 100. There will be increased funding for professional development, which is a critical issue for schoolteachers in our State. Through our second offer, we will provide them with improved access to better professional development. Some $2 million will be allocated to that. More schools will offer extra teacher incentives, and this involves an amount of $5 million. For the first time I have offered the teachers in state schools incentives to teach in the schools in our city that are the most difficult to work in. There are already good packages for remote schools. We have provided enhanced packages for difficult-to-staff schools in rural areas such as Meekatharra. For the very first time we have addressed the difficult-to-work-in schools in the metropolitan area by providing teachers with incentives to work and stay in those schools. That is a significant development. There will be increased non-contact time for primary school teachers, as requested - although not to the extent requested. There will be more time for administrators, so that there will be no teaching component for level 4 principals, and a range of other matters. This is a very good offer for teachers in Western Australian government schools. It is absolutely as far as the Government can go financially with its teaching community. I have put that to the teachers. I am having ongoing discussions with them. I spoke to the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA and other leaders last night, and I anticipate that I will be able to speak directly with the state executive on Thursday. It is very important for all of us to get this matter resolved. We need to provide our government schoolteachers with improved pay and conditions. We have done so. This is a very good offer. I guarantee that if this offer were presented to ordinary classroom teachers in our schools, they would accept it immediately.
I thank the member for the question. As a former teacher, he is obviously deeply interested in the outcome of the current dispute between the teachers and the State Government. Last Thursday night I met with the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA, Pat Byrne, to discuss the developing situation of the enterprise bargaining agreement negotiations. We discussed an enhanced offer that the Government had placed before the teachers’ union leadership on that day. I sought some assurance from her that that offer would be passed on to the union executive and to a meeting of union delegates on Saturday. That has happened. As yet, we have not had a positive outcome from that process. However, I am still very hopeful that we will, and I will explain why. One of the biggest issues confronting the teaching community in Western Australia is career structure. Currently, a very large number of teachers have reached the top of the pay scales for ordinary classroom teachers. In a sense, their career path is blocked, other than to progress to non-teaching duties through administrative positions. That has been a constant source of discussion between the union and me. The Government structured an arrangement in the second offer that provides an improved career structure for 6 000 teachers at the highest paid classroom level for ordinary teachers. The Government has provided two new categories or salary points: senior teachers 1 and 2. Within the structure of this deal, working off the baseline of the three per cent offer, which the Government has maintained, it would be possible for that group of teachers to move from their current level to the position of senior teacher 2 in two years or two and a half years. With professional development accreditation or courses of study, they will be able to earn an additional $8 000 in that movement. While the total package maintains its baseline of three per cent, it provides teachers an opportunity to earn between $3 000 and $8 000 extra, depending on their seniority and their place in the new career structure. In addition, the new offer contains very significant improvements in non-teaching benefits to the teaching community. For example, there will be more money for behaviour management, which is a critical issue in our government schools. This involves an additional $25 million. There will be improved career paths for teachers through a variety of mechanisms, one of which I have mentioned. There will be funding for more senior level teachers - they are the very high level advanced skills teachers. Their numbers will be expanded by more than 100. There will be increased funding for professional development, which is a critical issue for schoolteachers in our State. Through our second offer, we will provide them with improved access to better professional development. Some $2 million will be allocated to that. More schools will offer extra teacher incentives, and this involves an amount of $5 million. For the first time I have offered the teachers in state schools incentives to teach in the schools in our city that are the most difficult to work in. There are already good packages for remote schools. We have provided enhanced packages for difficult-to-staff schools in rural areas such as Meekatharra. For the very first time we have addressed the difficult-to-work-in schools in the metropolitan area by providing teachers with incentives to work and stay in those schools. That is a significant development. There will be increased non-contact time for primary school teachers, as requested - although not to the extent requested. There will be more time for administrators, so that there will be no teaching component for level 4 principals, and a range of other matters. This is a very good offer for teachers in Western Australian government schools. It is absolutely as far as the Government can go financially with its teaching community. I have put that to the teachers. I am having ongoing discussions with them. I spoke to the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA and other leaders last night, and I anticipate that I will be able to speak directly with the state executive on Thursday. It is very important for all of us to get this matter resolved. We need to provide our government schoolteachers with improved pay and conditions. We have done so. This is a very good offer. I guarantee that if this offer were presented to ordinary classroom teachers in our schools, they would accept it immediately.
One of the biggest issues confronting the teaching community in Western Australia is career structure. Currently, a very large number of teachers have reached the top of the pay scales for ordinary classroom teachers. In a sense, their career path is blocked, other than to progress to non-teaching duties through administrative positions. That has been a constant source of discussion between the union and me. The Government structured an arrangement in the second offer that provides an improved career structure for 6 000 teachers at the highest paid classroom level for ordinary teachers. The Government has provided two new categories or salary points: senior teachers 1 and 2. Within the structure of this deal, working off the baseline of the three per cent offer, which the Government has maintained, it would be possible for that group of teachers to move from their current level to the position of senior teacher 2 in two years or two and a half years. With professional development accreditation or courses of study, they will be able to earn an additional $8 000 in that movement. While the total package maintains its baseline of three per cent, it provides teachers an opportunity to earn between $3 000 and $8 000 extra, depending on their seniority and their place in the new career structure. In addition, the new offer contains very significant improvements in non-teaching benefits to the teaching community. For example, there will be more money for behaviour management, which is a critical issue in our government schools. This involves an additional $25 million. There will be improved career paths for teachers through a variety of mechanisms, one of which I have mentioned. There will be funding for more senior level teachers - they are the very high level advanced skills teachers. Their numbers will be expanded by more than 100. There will be increased funding for professional development, which is a critical issue for schoolteachers in our State. Through our second offer, we will provide them with improved access to better professional development. Some $2 million will be allocated to that. More schools will offer extra teacher incentives, and this involves an amount of $5 million. For the first time I have offered the teachers in state schools incentives to teach in the schools in our city that are the most difficult to work in. There are already good packages for remote schools. We have provided enhanced packages for difficult-to-staff schools in rural areas such as Meekatharra. For the very first time we have addressed the difficult-to-work-in schools in the metropolitan area by providing teachers with incentives to work and stay in those schools. That is a significant development. There will be increased non-contact time for primary school teachers, as requested - although not to the extent requested. There will be more time for administrators, so that there will be no teaching component for level 4 principals, and a range of other matters. This is a very good offer for teachers in Western Australian government schools. It is absolutely as far as the Government can go financially with its teaching community. I have put that to the teachers. I am having ongoing discussions with them. I spoke to the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA and other leaders last night, and I anticipate that I will be able to speak directly with the state executive on Thursday. It is very important for all of us to get this matter resolved. We need to provide our government schoolteachers with improved pay and conditions. We have done so. This is a very good offer. I guarantee that if this offer were presented to ordinary classroom teachers in our schools, they would accept it immediately.
The Government structured an arrangement in the second offer that provides an improved career structure for 6 000 teachers at the highest paid classroom level for ordinary teachers. The Government has provided two new categories or salary points: senior teachers 1 and 2. Within the structure of this deal, working off the baseline of the three per cent offer, which the Government has maintained, it would be possible for that group of teachers to move from their current level to the position of senior teacher 2 in two years or two and a half years. With professional development accreditation or courses of study, they will be able to earn an additional $8 000 in that movement. While the total package maintains its baseline of three per cent, it provides teachers an opportunity to earn between $3 000 and $8 000 extra, depending on their seniority and their place in the new career structure. In addition, the new offer contains very significant improvements in non-teaching benefits to the teaching community. For example, there will be more money for behaviour management, which is a critical issue in our government schools. This involves an additional $25 million. There will be improved career paths for teachers through a variety of mechanisms, one of which I have mentioned. There will be funding for more senior level teachers - they are the very high level advanced skills teachers. Their numbers will be expanded by more than 100. There will be increased funding for professional development, which is a critical issue for schoolteachers in our State. Through our second offer, we will provide them with improved access to better professional development. Some $2 million will be allocated to that. More schools will offer extra teacher incentives, and this involves an amount of $5 million. For the first time I have offered the teachers in state schools incentives to teach in the schools in our city that are the most difficult to work in. There are already good packages for remote schools. We have provided enhanced packages for difficult-to-staff schools in rural areas such as Meekatharra. For the very first time we have addressed the difficult-to-work-in schools in the metropolitan area by providing teachers with incentives to work and stay in those schools. That is a significant development. There will be increased non-contact time for primary school teachers, as requested - although not to the extent requested. There will be more time for administrators, so that there will be no teaching component for level 4 principals, and a range of other matters. This is a very good offer for teachers in Western Australian government schools. It is absolutely as far as the Government can go financially with its teaching community. I have put that to the teachers. I am having ongoing discussions with them. I spoke to the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA and other leaders last night, and I anticipate that I will be able to speak directly with the state executive on Thursday. It is very important for all of us to get this matter resolved. We need to provide our government schoolteachers with improved pay and conditions. We have done so. This is a very good offer. I guarantee that if this offer were presented to ordinary classroom teachers in our schools, they would accept it immediately.
This is a very good offer for teachers in Western Australian government schools. It is absolutely as far as the Government can go financially with its teaching community. I have put that to the teachers. I am having ongoing discussions with them. I spoke to the President of the State School Teachers Union of WA and other leaders last night, and I anticipate that I will be able to speak directly with the state executive on Thursday. It is very important for all of us to get this matter resolved. We need to provide our government schoolteachers with improved pay and conditions. We have done so. This is a very good offer. I guarantee that if this offer were presented to ordinary classroom teachers in our schools, they would accept it immediately.
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