Game changer: Victorian preschool teachers set a precedent
Conditions in the Victorian Early Childhood Teachers and Educators Agreement 2020:
- Pay parity with teachers in schools
- Maximum teaching time: 25.5 hours per week
- Minimum planning time: 12.5 hours per week
- Paid term holidays: 50 days annual leave
- Time for educational leader and/or nominated supervisor: 1 hour per week
- Organisational days: 3 days
- Professional development days: 2 days paid
- Time for mentors: 4 days
- Personal leave: 15 days upon commencement
- Family and domestic violence leave: 20 days paid leave
- Family leave: 16 weeks and 4 weeks for secondary carer
- Employee assistance program
- Any required paid out-of-hours work to be by agreement, with 14-day written notice period
- Union training leave: up to 5 days per year.
