Area School Teachers' Collective Agreement (ASTCA)
Part Seven: Removal Expenses (ASTCA)
This part of the agreement covers entitlement to removal (relocation) expenses if you are shifting schools.
Ministry of Education website - if you are shifing schools
7.1 Removals to and from Area Schools
(a) Where a teacher is entitled to removal expense provisions to or from an area school and also promotion or first permanent appointment, removal expenses are paid under the area school provisions and the other entitlements are absorbed.
(b) Where a teacher is entitled to removal expense provisions both to and from an area school in the course of one move, only one entitlement under the Area School provisions may be claimed and any other entitlement is absorbed.
(c) Where a teacher requires the transfer of effects and transit insurance, the teacher must use the provider contracted by the Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga.
7.2 Eligibility
7.2.1 A teacher who holds a permanent or long-term relieving position of four terms or more is eligible for removal expenses as set out in Appendix 2 in the following circumstances:
Relocating to another housing district
| CIRCUMSTANCE | CRITERIA/DEFINITION | ENTITLEMENT |
| Moving from employment in a State or State-Integrated school to employment in a different State or State-Integrated school | ||
| Shifting from a permanent role in an area school to another permanentposition in another school | Subject to having completed two years’ continuous service in the area school | All applicable removal expenses |
| Appointment to a position on promotion | Promotion is defined as an appointment to a position carrying a higher number of permanent units or a position that carriesmore status and responsibility and is equal or lower in salary. | All applicable removal expenses |
| Shifting from a staffing incentive or high priority teacher supply school to a permanent position or a long- term relieving position | A teacher must have completed continuous service totalling at least three years in one or more staffing incentive or high priority teacher supply school(s).If during the period of the teacher's employment the school loses its classification the entitlement is retained as long as the teacher fulfils thecontinuous service requirement. | All applicable removal expenses |
| Teacher’s position disestablished orreduced in grade but not lost, due to falling rolls | Where the teacher takes up a temporaryor relieving position and later moves again to a permanent position | All applicable removal expenses |
| Protected country service | Teachers who held an entitlement to removals from a country service school when the former country service provisions were replaced by the staffing incentives package, preserve thatentitlement for their next position in the education service. | All applicable removal expenses |
| Direction of school closure by the Minister of Education as a result of an earthquake, fire, flood or other natural disaster | Any teacher appointed to another school or positionA teacher who is obliged to live away from home while holding a temporaryposition. | Actual and reasonable applicable removal expensesActual and reasonable expenses. |
| Appointed to a role in a State or State Integrated Area School – does not need to be moving from employment in a State or State Integrated School | ||
| Appointment to a permanent position in an area school | Subject to completion of two years’ continuous service in the area school | · All applicable removal expenses |
| First permanent appointment following graduation from a course of teacher training recognised by the Secretary for Education (except where that appointment is to a staffing incentive or high priority teacher supply school) | The teacher must be resident in New Zealand at the time of appointment | · The cost of public transport (including airfares where necessary) for the teacher and dependants, or if public transport is not available, the appropriate motor vehicle rate to the nearest point of public transport;· The cost of removal of furniture and effects;· When a teacher sells a house and buys another within one year of firstappointment, actual legal expenses up to $1000.00. |
| Appointment to a permanentposition in a staffing incentive or high priority teacher supply school | The school is designated by theSecretary as a staffing incentive or area schools priority teacher supply school. | All applicable removal expenses incurred within New Zealand |
| Teachers returning from sponsored schemes overseas | A teacher returning to a New Zealand appointment following service overseasas part of a government to government contract | All applicable removal expenses incurred within New Zealand |
Note: For the purposes of clause 7.2.1 relocating to another housing district means where the shortest distance by road between either the current residence or current employing school and new employing school is 70 kilometres or more.
| CIRCUMSTANCE | CRITERIA/DEFINITION | ENTITLEMENT |
| The teacher occupies a school residence which the teacher has tovacate because it is being replaced or extensively renovated | The teacher and any dependents are required to board during renovations | Rent subsidy and all applicable removal expenses. |
| The teacher is required by the board to move to a school residence | All applicable removal expenses |
7.2.2 Where the teacher requires the transfer of effects and transit insurance, the teacher must use the provider contracted by the Ministry.
7.2.3 All relocations must relate to employment in a state or state integrated school.