Leave Without Pay — Teaching Service

Leave without pay to count as service

Leave without pay to count as service may be granted for the following reasons:

• Study Leave for Teaching Service
• to engage in employment with the Commonwealth or any State or Territory of the Commonwealth or any public statutory body constituted under the law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory of the Commonwealth including any university or educational institution offering courses at tertiary level
• to engage in any other employment or occupation which would improve the potential of the employee to serve the State in the teaching service
• to engage in employment in connection with any joint enterprise in which the Commonwealth or a State or Territory of the Commonwealth is concerned, or
• to engage in employment in or in connection with any other enterprise to which the State has agreed to provide assistance

The principal (or Regional Director in the case of principals) has the delegation to approve study leave. In all other cases applications for leave without pay to count as service will be determined by the Secretary (or delegate). In this case applications should be directed to the principal (or Regional Director in the case of principals) who will forward the application, with the appropriate supporting documentation, to the Executive Director, People Division, for the consideration of the Secretary (or delegate). The Secretary has approved service recognition where leave without pay was granted to work at the following:

• the Victoria International School of Sharjah (VISS) — for leave approved on or before 21 February 2012
• the Catholic Education Office, Victoria to implement the Ultranet
• a National Alliance for Remote Indigenous School (NARIS)
• Teaching Academies for Professional Practice (TAPP)
• technical schools