Killester College: A model for IEU collaboration
Killester College is a great example of how employers working collaboratively with unions can create productive, harmonious workplaces.
2024 in review: Victorian Catholic schools
Schools where staff are respected and have the necessary time and energy to do their jobs perform better for students, parents, and employers than schools with overworked staff.
IEU out to make the Victorian Catholic “Workload Agreement” work
To help with school planning for 2025, the union sent out a letter to all school leaders clarifying specific elements of the Victorian Catholic Education Multi Enterprise Agreement.
The IEU on the Victorian Catholic Agreement a year on
It was a huge challenge to overturn decades of work intensification, but many IEU members say the Catholic Education Multi Employer Agreement is a ‘gamechanger’.
IEU workplace wins in two states
The IEU has recently recorded significant industrial wins in two states which remind us of the great work being done by members and staff to achieve real outcomes for educators in their workplaces.
Know Your Agreement: Victorian Catholic Education Agreement Highlights - Part 5
The final in our series on important provisions in the new Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement, including some important details you might have missed which could significantly enhance your working life.
Know Your Agreement: Redundancy & resignation improvements
The CEMEA Agreement provides earlier access to the maximum redundancy pay.
Know your Agreement: Reductions in Scheduled Class Times
The Scheduled Class Time (SCT) reductions of one hour in 2023 and a further half-hour in 2024 are the biggest changes to SCT in 20 years.
Know Your Agreement: Victorian Catholic Education Agreement Highlights - Part 4
Over the next few weeks, we’ll highlight important provisions in the new Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement, including some important details you might have missed which could significantly enhance your working life.
Know your Agreement: Consultative Committee changes
Consultation is crucial to the operation of the Catholic Education Multi Enterprise Agreement (CEMEA). The key vehicle for consultation in your schools is the Consultative Committee.
Know your Agreement: Meetings limits
Fewer meetings, more efficiently run. Every educator wants that. And this Agreement delivers the means for that outcome through the 30+8 workload model.
Know your Agreement: Accident make-up pay
The CEMEA increases the period of payment of accident make-up pay, to eligible employees, to a maximum of 39 weeks, inclusive of non-term weeks.
Know Your Agreement: Victorian Catholic Education Agreement Highlights - Part 3
Over the next few weeks, we’ll highlight important provisions in the new Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement, including some important details you might have missed which could significantly enhance your working life.
It’s alive: the Victorian Catholic Education Agreement is approved at last!
Victorian Catholic IEU members, you have an Agreement. Not a proposal, a draft, or an implementation guide; you are now proud co-owners of a Fair Work Commision approved document which legally enforces wholescale improvements to workload regulation, leave entitlements and much more.
Know Your Agreement: Time in Lieu (Teachers)
For the first time under this Agreement, the many hours of employer-directed work outside of normal hours undetaken by teachers in Victorian Catholic schools are accounted for and acknowledged.
Know your Agreement: Flexible leave
All employees apart from casuals with a personal leave balance will be eligible for one day (7.6 hours) paid leave for personal reasons to be taken at a time approved by the principal.
Know your Agreement: fixed term & casual employment improvements
The CEMEA makes a commitment at the outset to minimise the use of fixed-term employment in its schools. This guiding principle is followed by strict specifics.
Know Your Agreement: Victorian Catholic Education Agreement Highlights - Part 2
Over the next few weeks, we’ll highlight important provisions in the new Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement, including some important details you might have missed which could significantly enhance your working life.
Know Your Agreement: Family and Domestic Violence Leave, and Sexual Abuse Survivor's Support
The CEMEA increases the entitlement to paid family and domestic violence leave for employees other than casual employees, to up to 20 days per school year.
Know your agreement: Workload Commitments
Lurking at clause 9.3 of CEMEA is an important statement: “The parties are committed to working together in development strategies to support the workload of Teachers and Principals…”