Teachers - PPL help
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Topic: Teachers - PPL help
Posted By: Sassy
Subject: Teachers - PPL help
Date Posted: 04 August 2009 at 4:47pm
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I am getting myself more and more confused! If anyone could shed light on my situation I would be very grateful.
Basically I am planning on leaving at the end of term 3. My ideal plan would be to take my holiday pay/annual leave (I guess the two weeks of the term 3 holidays then the three weeks or so of the christmas holidays I would have accumulated) before starting PPL. My question is basically, has anyone done this before? My deputy principal said she thought I would be paid my annual leave during the christmas holiday period, not before, which would clash with my 14 weeks PPL. Is she right, or can I request my leave earlier? I tried talking to dol but as it's kind of a quirk of teaching they didn't appear too sure. They suggested taking the annual leave after PPL but this seems to mean I will be paid less as the entitlement is over the previous 12 months and I would not have been working for that full period. Also, the 14wks takes me past the christmas holidays anyway so I's still have to request annual leave at a different time? Sorry for novel, but any help greatly appreciated. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: rachndean
Date Posted: 04 August 2009 at 6:20pm
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Sassy, I was in a similar situation (but not a teacher), and when I talked to the DOL they just changed the start date of my PPL so that it kicked in when my annual leave was up?
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Posted By: Sassy
Date Posted: 04 August 2009 at 6:51pm
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Thanks Rach!
Yeah, reading back I probably should have simplified my q as "will they say yes if I ask for my annual leave early?"  I think that's kind of what I'm getting at.------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">
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Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 04 August 2009 at 7:02pm
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I am a teacher and am on my second round of maternity leave. My understanding is (and this happened last time) that all your holiday pay is paid out in your last pay.
You need to put the last day of the term 3 school holidays (Sunday the 11th of October) to ensure you get paid for those holidays. You are basically paid out the end of year holidays based on the number of weeks work in the year. I saw out the full year last time so got paid the full 6 weeks at the end. This time I will only be paid out 3 weeks for the end of the year as have only done half a year. All this goes into your last pay. Remember you also get the 6 weeks at full pay maternity grant. You can apply for that thru the the school at any time during your years leave. You need to take your birth cert in and make sure that the payroll person at school has a copy of the MW cert confiming your preg. I did this after my PPL ran out. The best people to call is School Support (they do all the school pays) and our contracts etc are very different to what the DOL deals with. Any other questions, I am happy to help! -------------  
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Posted By: Sassy
Date Posted: 04 August 2009 at 7:37pm
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Thanks so much peanut! When you say 'last pay' do you mean the last pay before I go on PPL, so at the end of the term 3 holidays? ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">
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Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 04 August 2009 at 9:32pm
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Yip, whenever your last pay is before you go on PPL. School Support is really good at getting it all right as long as the payroll person at your school gets the info in on time.
If you plan on going back to teaching make sure you go in and fill in a pay form thing before you start back so that you start getting paid straight away as the system School Support uses can't "park" you as such while you are on mat leave so you need to fill out the form again but everything is there. Weird I know. Congrats on the preg and twins! -------------
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