Salary Loading Allowance
Teaching Service
Employees in the Teaching Service (including education support class), other than casual employees, are entitled to payment of a salary loading allowance of 17.5% of four weeks of the total salary to which they are normally entitled as at 1 December of the year in which the allowance is paid. For employees with part time service during the relevant year payment of the allowance will be made on a pro rata basis determined by the time fraction for which service was the longest in aggregate.
An employee must be employed on 30 November to be eligible for the 17.5% allowance. The allowance is calculated on the amount of paid service (in aggregate) for the period 1 December to 30 November. Payment is automatically paid to eligible employees in December each year. The maximum amount payable is $961 for 2009, $987 for 2010 and $1,041 for 2011.
Where a Teaching Service employee ceases employment and is re-employed in the Teaching Service in the same year, current and prior service in that year may be included as service for salary loading purposes provided the employee was not paid in lieu of salary loading allowance on separation.
Leave without pay for religious observance and vacation periods that do not attract pay but are otherwise counted as service are included as days of service for the purpose of calculating the salary loading allowance.
Employees may be entitled to payment in lieu of salary loading allowance on cessation of employment.
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