Effective 1 January 1999, all supply teachers receive payment at the Band 3 Step 1 classification level.

The salary as at 01 July 2009 is $61.0080 per hour or $305.04 per full day.

One of the benefits of TRACER is its interface to the Department's payroll system. Each day you work, your details are automatically uploaded to the payroll system.

Usually you will be paid within a fortnight, but it could be earlier depending on the day you worked in relation to the pay cycle. Pay-days are every second Wednesday.

Education Queensland produces approximately 60 000 payslips for staff per fortnight across the state. Sending these payslips out to individual home addresses would prove very costly over a year.

Payslips are sent to the school you nominate i.e. most relief teachers nominate their local school or a school that they regularly work at.

Another popular method is to provide to your "nominated" school a dozen or so "stamped, self addressed envelopes" and that way as soon as the school receives your payslip they pop it in to your envelope and away it goes (and remember to replace the "envelopes" when they have run out).

Please ensure that you provide the Department with the following forms:

• A completed Tax File Number Declaration Form (these can be obtained from your local post office/newsagent or ordered from the Australian Tax Office website).

Failure to provide your Tax File Number to the Department within 28 days of your engagement will result in you being taxed at the maximum rate.

• A completed Personal Details Advice Form that includes your banking details. Click the link to download a PDF form or a Word Document.

These completed forms should be forwarded as soon as possible to one of the teams listed below, whichever is closest to your location.

• Greater Brisbane Payroll Team
  PMB 250
  MANSFIELD DC QLD 4122
  
  
• Moreton Payroll Team
  PMB 15158
  CITY EAST QLD 4002
  
  
• Sunshine Coast Team
  PMB 15158
  CITY EAST QLD 4002
  
  
• Maryborough Payroll Team
  PO Box 142
  MARYBOROUGH QLD 4650
  
  
• Cairns Payroll Team
  PO Box 6094
  CAIRNS QLD 4870
  
  

The school where you completed the work should be your first contact to ensure the booking details are accurately recorded on their School Booking Report.

If the claim is present in the School Booking Report then the details of your engagement have been automatically forwarded to the payroll system.

Usually you will be paid within a fortnight, but it could be earlier depending on the day you worked in relation to the pay cycle. Pay-days are every second Wednesday.

If you are still concerned at the delay in being paid, then you should contact the respective paying office for further information. The school can provide the contact details.

Yes. Keep a record of the days you have worked and at what school, either at home or in a diary. When payment is made the dates paid appear on the payslip and this will allow you to cross check which days are paid and which days are outstanding for you to contact the school and check that the schedule for payment has been submitted.

Supply teachers are able to be engaged in accordance with clause 4.1.4(g) of the certified agreement as follows:

"The minimum period of engagement of supply A (casual) teachers shall be two hours of rostered duty time provided that no more than one engagement shall be permitted at one school on the same day."

Supply teachers are not required to attend to before or after school bus duty.

Morning tea breaks are included as paid meal breaks and therefore are part of rostered duty time (teaching time). Lunch breaks are not.

You can be directed by the school to perform playground duty (even if the teacher you are replacing is not scheduled to do so) provided you are still given your lunch time entitlement.

However if you are engaged for less than a school day, you are not required to attend to lunchtime playground duty following the end of the period of a morning engagement, or prior to commencement of duty for an afternoon engagement.