{"id":14912,"date":"2025-09-08T05:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14912"},"modified":"2025-09-08T05:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:18:48","slug":"public-service-commissioner-sir-brian-roche-insists-pay-offer-to-teachers-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14912","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche insists pay offer to teachers &#8216;fair&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche says the latest pay offer for primary school teachers is strong, fair and addresses cost-of-living pressures.<\/p>\n<p>The offer was sent to the Education Institute (NZEI) on Friday afternoon, before bargaining scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>NZEI union members are expected to vote this weekend on whether to accept the new offer or move to a vote on strike action.<\/p>\n<p>The offer is an increase of between 2.7-4.6 percent during the next two years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-third photo-right three_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--bURP3gij--\/c_crop,h_184,w_294,x_0,y_47\/c_scale,h_184,w_294\/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_288\/v1757135380\/4K1HQZY_SirBrianRoche_PNG?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Public Services Commissioner Sir Brian Roche\" width=\"288\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Sir Brian Roche warned there was no room for movement on remuneration.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Supplied\/ Public Service Commission<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sir Brian said there was no room to move further on remuneration.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Education previously offered teachers three one percent pay rises over three years, before NZEI members\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/571665\/nzei-members-considering-industrial-action\">held two weeks<\/a>\u00a0of stop-work meetings in August for primary schools and principals, including support staff and Ministry of Education learning staff.<\/p>\n<p>NZEI said teachers felt undervalued and pay offers needed to ensure teachers didn&#8217;t go backwards, given the rising cost of living.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/444406\/educational-institute-calls-for-school-staffing-overhaul-in-new-report\">Earlier this year, it said<\/a>\u00a0smaller classes and more teacher aides were needed to ensure all children had quality learning.<\/p>\n<p>Secondary school teachers also took strike action last month\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/570564\/government-revising-pay-offer-to-teachers-but-says-union-must-compromise-too\">over pay talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche says the latest pay offer for primary school teachers is strong, fair and addresses cost-of-living pressures. The offer was sent to the Education Institute (NZEI) on Friday afternoon, before bargaining scheduled for Tuesday. NZEI union members are expected to vote this weekend on whether to accept the new offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14914,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions\/14914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}