The Queensland Government has announced it has reached an agreement with the Queensland Teachers’ Union (QTU) that will see the state’s teachers receive a 2.7 per cent pay rise per year for the next three years.

 

QTU officials have endorsed the new agreement in principle, which will now be put to a statewide ballot and backdated to 1 September this year once it comes into effect.

 

“I am pleased that all sides have negotiated in good faith to reach an agreement that recognises and values the important work Queensland teachers do in educating our children,” Premier Campbell Newman said.

 

Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek said the outcome was the result of three months of intense negotiations since the last Enterprise Bargaining Agreement expired at the end of June.

 

“As part of the agreement, the QTU has thrown their support behind the Independent Public Schools Initiative through a Memorandum of Agreement. I’m extremely pleased that we’ve been able to resolve this before any industrial action was taken.”