Initially each employee record will have blank Pay Parity details.
Within this page will be options to populate the initial pay step of an employee and any prior hours.
The details populated in here will run through a calculation to provide a Pay Step.
Qualification Group
This defines the initial pay step of the employee.
Options:
- No Qualifications
- P1, P2, & P3
- P3+
- P4
- P5
To work out which group your employee is in refer to MOEs help documentation.
Management Position
This defines the Management Position of the staff member.
This will override the Qualification group during pay step calculations.
This option is only available when Full or Extended Parity attestations is set.
Calculated credited worked hours prior to (Effective date)
If the 'Effective date of staff hour record keeping' has been defined, this field will be available. Otherwise this will be greyed-out.
Populate this field with the calculated credited worked hours the employee has as of the start of the effective date.
In practice this is the figure you obtain from your current external staff pay step calculations.
Prior recognised service (working as a teacher in NZ)
Populate the total recognised service hours this employee has obtained prior to their employment at your service.
This is the total certified worked hours of this employee. Refer to the 'Recognised Service' section in the funding handbook.
If you have populated the 'Calculated credited worked hours prior to (Effective date)' this field should initially be left blank. It is expected that your external calculations have accounted for these hours and have been populated in the field above.
Prior relevant work experience
Populate the total relevant worked experience hours this employee has obtained prior to their employment at your service.
Refer to the 'Previous Relevant Work Experience' section of the funding handbook.
If you have populated the 'Calculated credited worked hours prior to (Effective date)' this field should initially be left blank. It is expected that your external calculations have accounted for these hours and have been populated in the field above.
Recorded worked hours as a certificated teacher at this service
The system will count the employees current certificated worked hours up to todays date.
These hours are populated based on the settings within Centre Options and the 'Worked Hours on the Staff Timesheets.
Only hours within an active Practicing Certificate Start and End Date will counted.
Recorded worked hours as an uncertificated teacher at this service
The system will count the employees current uncertificated worked hours up to todays date.
These hours are populated based on the settings within Centre Options and the 'Worked Hours on the Staff Timesheets.
Only hours outside of an active Practicing Certificate Start and End Date will counted.
Calculation
Once the above details have been populated click Update
The calculation section will populate the employees Pay Step.
If a previous pay step has passed the system will display a 'Last Step Change' if.
The 'Last Step Change' will only occur after 'Effective date of staff hour record keeping'.