THE PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL VOICE OF QUEENSLAND’S TEACHERS AND SCHOOL LEADERS IN STATE SCHOOLS AND TAFE FOR MORE THAN 135 YEARS.

State election and job security

QTU priority : JOB SECURITY - Maintaining and maximising permanent employment for teachers, principals and TAFE

Record of the parties in government
ALP and LNP
Promises of the political parties
The parties respond to QTU members' issues
a comparison Back to election page QTJ special digital election issue Special election Journal (printable )

 Authorised by Graham Moloney, General Secretary, Queensland Teachers' Union, 21 Graham Street,Milton, QLD, Australia, 4064

LNP PROMISES : job security

ALP PROMISES: job security

GREENS PROMISES: job security
  • Will discuss as part of EB negotiations
  • Amendments to the Public Service Act provide for permanency after one year
  • The default for employment is permanency, and this is now in legislation
  • Guarantee of permanency at all levels of education – teachers, HoPs, principals and TAFE
  • Policy to provide more secure work to those in the gig economy etc
LNP record in government : job security ALP record in government : job security
  • Sacked government employees, despite claiming before the 2012 election that there was nothing to worry about from an LNP government
  • Introduced “award modernisation” processes that stripped away job security provisions from awards and agreements
  • Through Great Teachers = Great Results, attempted to impose fixed-term contracts on principals and deputy principals; also tried to force school leaders to obtain a business or commerce higher qualification to qualify
  • Ruled out contracts for principals and deputy principals and brought executive principals back into the classification structure
  • Reintroduced employment security policy for government employees, including arrangements to make school purchased positions permanent

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