08 DecVECTEA organisational days
Employers who are respondents (signatories) to the VECTEA 2020 are required to provide three (3) organisational days during the kindergarten year.
Organisational days are child-free days used to undertake organisational activities as approved by the employer. These would typically relate to activities to setting up at the start of the year and packing up at the end of the year, for instance, curriculum development, team meetings, verifying enrollment records, medical plans etc.
The scheduled organisational days are ‘common’ organisational days and are excluded from a service’s requirement to provide 600 hours of funded 4-year-old kindergarten (and 3-year-old programs).
Employees who cannot attend or are not rostered to work on the common organisational days will have access to their child-free days by agreement with the employer, within the first two weeks of term 1 and the last two weeks of term 4.
When are the common organisational days in 2022/23 (Victoria)?
2022
- Term 4: Tuesday, 20 December.
2023
- Term 1: Friday, 27 January and Monday, 30 January. Children commence on Tuesday, 31 January.
- Term 4: Wednesday, 20 December.
Refer to: School term dates and holidays in Victoria | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au)
Are employees required to attend common organisational days?
Part-time employees who are ordinarily rostered to work on a common organisational day (based on their regular roster) are expected to attend on that day. Part-time employees work and are paid for their normal rostered hours on this day (clause 34.2).
Part-time and casual employees who are not ordinarily rostered to attend on that day of the week are not expected to attend. However, if your part-time employee elects to attend a common organisational day, they are not normally rostered to work; they will be asked to work and paid for 7.6 hours on that day (clause 34.4).
Full-time employees are expected to attend common child-free days and are rostered and paid for their normal 7.6 hours per day (clause 34.2).
