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RNZ News
13 hours ago
- Business
- RNZ News
School support staff reject Ministry of Education pay offer
Teacher aides and support staff have rejected the latest offer. (File photo) Photo: Unpslash/ Laura Rivera Teacher aides and other school support staff belonging to the Educational Institute have rejected a deal that offers them less than half the pay rise they are seeking. The institute, Te Riu Roa (NZEI), said the offer was the third made by the Ministry of Education It said the offer included a pay rise of 60 cents an hour in the first year followed by 15 cents in the second year and 25 cents in the third year. The union said that amounted to a pay rise of four percent over three years for the lowest-paid support staff and about 1.7 percent for the highest-paid. The NZEI said its members were seeking an increase of five percent in the first year followed by 2.5 percent and 2.5 percent, or a total of 10 percent over three years. The ministry's offer also included lump-sum payments of $300 for full-time staff and $250 for part-time staff in the second and third years of the agreement. NZEI support staff rep and teacher aide Ally Kingi said members were angry and fired-up at meetings but were yet to decide what their next step would be. She said there were 28,000 support staff in schools, not all of whom were union members, and most were women earning less than $30,000 a year. Kingi said support staff won a pay equity boost in 2020 with provision for ongoing reviews to ensure they did not lose ground against male-dominated workforces, but had now lost the ability to have those reviews. She said members were angry about that. "I think it's a feeling of a workforce that's felt under-valued and then through winning our pay equity claims we had that real feeling of our work being seen and valued and felt really great. And then sort of to have sunk back down again, people aren't prepared to do that," she said. "It's hitting all of us in the backpocket... most people work just school hours or part of that time because we know schools aren't funded properly to employ us or to support the children that need supporting." Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
What is a demerit point in cricket?
A demerit point is given to someone in international cricket who commits an offence that breaches the code of conduct for players and player support code was first introduced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in September 2016. Offences that can lead to players and support staff being given demerit points include dissent, abuse of equipment, foul language and public criticism of a two-year period, a player's demerit points are converted into suspension suspension points mean a ban for either one Test, two one-day internationals or two Twenty-20 internationals, depending on which of those come first for the player or member of support staff in points last on a player's record for two years from the date of the offence and are expunged upon expiry.A player given demerit points can also by fined some - or all - of their match points are given out depending on the severity of the offence, which are ranked from level one to level four, with four the most one incidents are given one or two demerit points. Level two incidents are given three or four demerit points. Level three incidents are given five or six demerit points and level four incidents are given seven or eight demerit demerit points equate to four suspension points, meaning missing either two Test matches or four white-ball points system for offences is similar to the process in Formula1 for drivers, with suspensions coming from an accumulation of points, as well those points having an expiry 2017, India spinner Ravindra Jadeja missed a Test match against Sri Lanka after accumulating six demerit points within a 24-month article is the latest from BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team. What is Ask Me Anything? Ask Me Anything is a service dedicated to answering your want to reward your time by telling you things you do not know and reminding you of things you team will find out everything you need to know and be able to call upon a network of contacts including our experts and will be answering your questions from the heart of the BBC Sport newsroom, and going behind the scenes at some of the world's biggest sporting coverage will span the BBC Sport website, app, social media and YouTube accounts, plus BBC TV and radio. More questions answered... How do points work in the County Championship?Why batting positions matter in cricketWhy were South Africa known as 'chokers'?Do red, white and pink cricket balls behave differently?
