Fixed-term contracts: do’s and don’ts
The Educator investigates how principals can avoid getting their schools – and themselves – into trouble when it comes to hiring teachers on fixed-term contracts.
The Educator investigates how principals can avoid getting their schools – and themselves – into trouble when it comes to hiring teachers on fixed-term contracts.
Misusing fixed-term contracts can come with heavy penalties, as one Melbourne school recently found out the hard way.
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More than 8,500 teachers will soon hold full-day strikes as a wage dispute lasting almost a year drags on.
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More than 7,500 teachers have stopped work for the seventh time over pay and workload conditions.
The refusal of their employers to listen to their concerns about wages and workload has left Catholic teachers little choice but to continue striking, says the IEU.
Teachers in most Queensland Catholic schools are striking today over an ongoing pay dispute with Catholic school employers.
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