TEACHERS’ SALARIES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 25 November 1943, Page 2

TEACHERS’ SALARIES

AMENDING REGULATIONS

An amendment of the regulations governing training college students, probationary assistants and supernumerary teachers serving with the Armed Forces has been gazetted. The amended regulations make provision for determining the remuneration of such students and teachers who resume their training or teaching duties after a period of service with the forces. The Teachers Emergency Regulations, 1941, have been amended by the insertion of a new clause applying to all members of the Forces who, having been selected for admission to a training college (whether before or during the period of their service with the forces), did not commence the prescribed period of training until after the completion of their actual service with the forces; or when called upon to serve with the forces were undergoing a course of training as training college students or were holding appointments or were eligible for appointment as probationary assistants or supernumerary teachers. The new clause states that when any person to whom the clause applies is, after service with the forces, admitted or resumes duty as a training college student, probationary assistant or supernumerary teacher, his period of service with the forces shall, for the purpose of determining his rate of remuneration, be taken into account as if it were part of his period of training or part of his service as a teacher, and his rate of remuneration shall be the rate that he would in ordinary course be entitled to receive if his period of training or his teaching service had not been interrupted by his service with the Forces. It is stated that the provisions of this clause shall apply notwithstanding that the rate of remuneration so determined may exceed the maximum rate prescribed for training college students, probationary assistants or supernumerary teachers, but that no person to whom the clause applies shall be entitled to receive a salary in excess of the appropriate Grade B basic salary rate.

The amended regulations also contain a clause stating that where the grade of any position has been reduced, a teacher holding the position as a war appointment, may be retained in that position, without reduction of salary, for a period not exceeding two years.