Contract and Payment Processes

Contract of Employment

Your School is responsible for providing you with a written contract of employment if you are employed for more than 4 weeks. 

The payment process

In order to receive your first pay, you will need to complete the necessary forms, all of which will be provided by your supervisor or your School contact person.  These will include:

• An Offer of Employment form
• An ATO Tax File Number declaration
• A First Time claim form
• Copies of claim forms each fortnight (if applicable, otherwise the School will complete a single form that covers your work across the session)

You will be paid every fortnight by Electronic Funds Transfer into your nominated bank account. 

Sessional teaching staff will receive their first pay 2 weeks after they have lodged their first claim.

The procedure for organising payment may vary according to the School in which you are employed.  However, most Schools follow a similar procedure to that detailed above.

Visit the Human Resources website, www.hr.unsw.edu.au/services/salaries/casacsal.html for further detail on salary rates for sessional teaching staff.

Payment for marking

As set out in Schedule 2 of the UNSW (Academic Staff) Enterprise 2006 Agreement (www.hr.unsw.edu.au/services/indrel/acadea2006.pdf) your hourly rate of pay for lecturing or tutoring includes:

• (ii) up to 20 minutes of marking for each one hour of teaching.  The marking is for the group of students for whom the casual employee has direct responsibility (e.g. 60 contact hours means that twenty hours of marking must be undertaken before further costs are incurred by the University).
• Academics in Schools/Departments will establish a time formula for marking in relation to different types of assessments within the Schools/ Departments.  This formula will be used and reviewed every second year by the School/Department.

Marking beyond this, including marking of subject or course wide examinations, essays or other assessment tasks will be paid at the appropriate hourly marking rate as set out in Schedule 2 [Section 4] http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/services/salaries/casacsal.html

If you have any queries in relation to the marking component of your contract, you should see your course coordinator or supervisor.

Further information on casual employment at UNSW can be found in Section 15.3 of the UNSW (Academic Staff) Enterprise Agreement 2006. (http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/services/indrel/acadea2006.pdf)

Leave

Sessional teaching staff do not accrue entitlements to recreation leave, sick leave or other paid leave.  As a casual academic, your pay includes a loading in lieu of any leave entitlements.

Public holidays

You are only paid for public holidays on which you are required to work.  If you are not required to work, you are not paid for the day.

Superannuation

All sessional teaching staff at UNSW receive superannuation payments from the University, and all payments are made quarterly into UniSuper fund.

The University will contribute 9% of your salary if you earn over $450 a month, while if you earn less than $450 the rate drops to 3% of your salary.

If the total amount of superannuation you accrue over a quarter is less than $31.50, the University is not obliged to make any payment on your behalf.

Workers Compensation

Sessional teaching staff are covered by the University's workers compensation insurance during the period of their contract.  If you have an accident while working, you need to lodge an Incident Report Form with your supervisor/school contact person, which you can download from http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/ohswc/Workerscomp.html

Further information

For general information on employment conditions for Casual Academic Staff, please visit: http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/employee/orientation/casstaff.html#EmploymentInformation

To download a range of forms for UNSW Casual Academics, please visit: http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/hrforms.html