Additional Educator/ISS Back Payment
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 7:06 pm
I have been a casual additional educator (ISS) since 2017 ( my pay being subsidised through the Inclusion Agency NSW/ACT's Inclusion Development Fund manager). From 2017 till around March 2018 I was being paid 28/hour and then 30/hour at level 3 child services employee (which is at my qualification). After March 2018 my pay went down to 24/hour (I was given a letter stating the decline in pay prior). I found out recently that I was moved down to support worker level 2.1 (later 2.2) which is unqualified.
In July I asked the director about my job qualification and role; I was told, my "job was unqualified although I needed to be qualified to be in the job". I searched through the inclusion agency website and found out I was there to boost the child-educator above what was required by the National Regulations. Once I showed the director this, my pay was put up to level 3 a couple of weeks later and was given an email stating the change and that I would be backpaid from a couple of days after I showed the director.
If my job needed to be qualified the whole time, do I need to be back paid from the time it was cut until now?
In July I asked the director about my job qualification and role; I was told, my "job was unqualified although I needed to be qualified to be in the job". I searched through the inclusion agency website and found out I was there to boost the child-educator above what was required by the National Regulations. Once I showed the director this, my pay was put up to level 3 a couple of weeks later and was given an email stating the change and that I would be backpaid from a couple of days after I showed the director.
If my job needed to be qualified the whole time, do I need to be back paid from the time it was cut until now?
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