Simon Laube: Early Childhood Council CEO supports ending pay parity for relievers

Early childhood education providers are hopeful ending pay parity for relievers will allow more permanent roles.

From October, only permanent part-time or full-time certified teachers will be paid according to the pay parity policy.

The Early Childhood Council says 74 percent of its members support the exclusion.

Chief executive Simon Laube approves of removing this educational 'red tape'. 

"You just create an inducement for them to leave teaching and become relievers if you do - so there's some real common sense today."

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Together do for cl David Seymours announced the first red
tape that he's cutting from early childhood centers from October.
Pay parity will only apply to permanent, part or full
time certified teachers, not to the relief teachers, and ecees
will not have to try it, will not have to
prove that they tried to find a certified teacher before
hiring a non certified teacher. Now, the Early Childhood Council CEO,

(00:21):
Simon lab is with us. Now, Hey, Simon, Hi, Heather.
So the pay parity thing applying to the relief teachers,
it seems to me that this is going to incentivize
them to stop being relief teachers but actually become permanent.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Is that the plan You've got to bang on, Heather.
That's absolutely right. And I think the other point is
why were they included in the first place, Because it
kind of beggars belief that you would, because you just
create a an inducement for them to leave teaching and
become relievers if you do so. Some real common sense

(00:52):
today from the government and goodredence to too lots of
red tape.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
And I can understand why we don't want ece is
wasting their time trying to prove that they found a
certified Try that they try to find a certified teacher
if there's no certified teacher to find. But is it
less beneficial to the kids to have a non certified teacher.
Don't we want a certified teacher.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
We do want certified teachers, but we do have a
teacher shortage as well. Neither of those changes will mean
less certified change less certified teachers. It doesn't affect that
we've got a limited number of certified teachers, and they'd
gravitated away from our employment into these third party relief
teacher agencies, which were then being charged back to us

(01:34):
at exorbitant rates. So today we'll turn the tide on
that and hopefully we'll actually see more certified teachers and
ecees because they'll want to get a job.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, Simon, Hey, thanks very much, really appreciate it. Simon Lobber,
Early Childhood Council CEO. For more from Hither Dupless Ellen Drive,
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