Manager School Operations (Adam McGill)
Teaching Staff – Personal Leave
I have been getting some questions on what to enter in HRMIS for different types of personal leave.
Types of personal leave include:
- Sick leave – employee is ill or injured. You can’t apply for sick leave in the future, that would come under planned personal leave (see below).
- Carers leave – to provide care or support to a member of the employee’s family or household.
- Unplanned leave – for unanticipated matters of a compassionate or pressing nature which arise without notice and require immediate attention (i.e. burst water pipe in house, car breakdown). Funnily enough, you also can’t apply for unplanned leave for a future date, that would be planned leave (see below).
- Planned leave – planned matters where arrangements cannot be organised outside of normal working hours (i.e. specialist appointment). This leave requires prior approval from the principal. When scheduling appointments, request times after school hours when possible, although understandably sometimes this cannot occur, and you will need to access your personal leave.
Just a reminder of the importance of entering leave into HRMIS in a timely manner. The school can’t allocate staffing funds appropriately until HRMIS entries have been completed.
The entitlement for a full-time employee for personal leave is:
- 13 days cumulative leave
- 2 days non-cumulative leave
Evidence
| 33.28 | An Application for personal leave exceeding two consecutive working days shall be supported by evidence that would satisfy a reasonable person of the entitlement. |
| 33.29 | In general, supporting evidence is not required for single or two consecutive day absences. Where the Employer has good reason to believe that the absence may not be reasonable or legitimate, the Employer may request evidence be provided. The Employer must provide the Employee with reasons for requesting the evidence. The leave shall not be granted where the absence is not reasonable or legitimate. |
| 33.30 | Evidence must be provided for any day taken immediately preceding or immediately following a student vacation even where the absence does not exceed two (2) consecutive working days. |
Personal leave is not to be used for recreational purposes.
For all leave remember to text/call the relief coordinator as soon as possible, then alert your Line Manager to advise them of the leave and discuss any relief lesson requirements. For planned absences, discuss with your Line Manager before entering leave request into HRMIS so they are aware of the request and can plan for replacement needs.
Lesson plans should be left in Compass in the allocated class Teachers Notes section.
Quick Guide – Relief Notes directly into Compass
Thanks to everyone who has already left their relief notes directly in Compass. Feedback from the staff involved indicated it seems to be an easy process.
If you are not sure what to do, please check the attached Quick Guide, or come and chat with me and I can help.
Thanks again.
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Duty Areas
A reminder to check your duty allocation for Term 2.
Can front lawn duty teachers please ensure that students on the front lawn are seated during break times. This is a passive area and is the first area parents and members of the public see when they pass out school. There are other areas of the school that students are welcome to engage in athletic pursuits, please direct them to the oval to play sport.
Please Note:
- A boy named Ryan Shannon (who has Autism) has a habit of pacing between the pine trees, please allow this to occur.
- Idea Wanto spends Lunch 1 on the front lawn with some friends. He will be briefed on the expectations (and supervised by an EA), however, please ignore him if he has a negative verbal response to the instructions.
Compass Events
In time, the Compass Events module will replace Consent2Go within our school. I would love to set up a small working group on this task to ensure we get the best set up possible. If you are interested, please chat with me.
For now, and the foreseeable future, staff will continue to use Consent2Go for excursion planning.