Consultation on Mana Taurite | Pay Equity Claim underway from 9 September to 18 October

It's time to play a key part in our pay equity claim by giving feedback on a document called the General Areas of Responsibility (GARs).

This report is a summary of the responsibilities identified by teachers and leaders who were interviewed for the claim.

Consultation opens 9 September and closes 18 October.

• Click here to read the document and submit feedback.

Now, we need you to review it and then fill in the gaps to complete the picture. If something you do is not in the document, that means it wasn’t captured in an interview, and this needs to be fixed.

It’s important that we, as a teaching profession, take the time to complete this step to ensure that we build a strong picture of teaching before we enter the next stage of the pay equity process.

Chat to your worksite representative or your local Mana Taurite champion to find out what time you and your colleagues are meeting to discuss the document.

To learn more about our Mana Taurite | Pay Equity campaign click here.

More resources will be added to this page in the coming weeks – so make sure you check back!

Register for a webinar to learn more about the consultation process and how it works.

At the webinar you’ll learn:

• Why this consultation period is critical to the success of our pay equity claim
• How the consultation process works
• How to champion it at your school, kura, kindergarten or ECE centre to ensure your colleagues get involved too

We have created a step-by-step guide on how to run a worksite meeting to update people on our pay equity claim during consultation in September and October 2024.

You can find it here.

We have created a summary of the general areas of responsibility document for easy reference. Click here to read.

You can find more information about the GARs and pay equity here.

The Hui Whakamana are a consultation option for kaiako and tumuaki working in kura kaupapa Māori, kura ā-Iwi, puna reo, Māori immersion and bi-lingual settings as well as te reo Māori kaiako | teachers in English medium settings. Kaiako and tumuaki are invited to the hui to consider the responsibilities drawn from the interviews in kaupapa Māori education settings and identify any missing responsibilities or confirm what was found.

Head to the Ministry of Education's website for dates, times and to register. (Scroll down to the consultations option part).

The online hui will be offered from week 2 of the consultation period. Each hui will run for approximately 2 ½ hours and will be outside of teaching hours.

Our When You See Me activity is designed to get us all talking about the skills and knowledge behind every task we do.

Lots of what we do as teachers isn't seen, so this is a way of bringing out the professional practice and complex knowledge and skills that sit behind what others may see as simply a task.

• See examples below:
  

• Download the resource.
• Print out (in A3) one of the blank When You See Me pages.
• Chat to your colleagues and reflect on your work.
• Choose one task that you do and write that under ‘When You See Me...’.
• Think about the skills and knowledge that task requires and write that under ‘I am...’.

Note: It’s best to use a thick pen such as a vivid so it is clear to see.

Fill out the resource, scan/snap a pic or, record a video sharing your When You See Me story.

So that your message can be read loud and clear, you can also take a close up of the poster to really get your message across.

Send it to us at payequity@nzei.org.nz and post it on social media, tagging @NZEITeRiuRoa on both Facebook and Instagram. We’ll share it on our social pages too!

Print out this poster and put it up on your noticeboard to let your colleagues know when your meeting time is.

You can either edit the text directly in the pdf or print it out and write on it.

Click here to download poster.

Browse the merch store and rep our Mana Taurite | Pay Equity campaign.