Casual Academic Pay Claim Procedure in CSE

Under current arrangements, a SAL122 is completed and signed off when you are inducted as a casual tutor. If this happens/happened for you, then you can skip to the heading below "Claiming for extra work". If you are appointed late for some reason, then you may not have completed a SAL122. You will not get paid until the SAL122 is completed and sent to Salaries Section.

The SAL122 form is available from the perspex racks outside the School Student Office. You should complete the personal details on one side of this, then take it to your lecturer or class administrator, who will help you to code up the details of the work that you have contracted for, taking into account public holidays that may affect the number of tutorials or labs that you actually work.

The lecturer or class administrator will also sign off at bottom left on this form. You can then take it to the School Student Office and either hand it in or poke it through the hole in the door (e.g. if there is a long queue or it's outside office hours).

Pay claim forms are submitted fortnightly by the School to Salaries Section. You can find the fortnightly cutoff dates on the UNSW Human Resources web site. If you submit your SAL122 form at the beginning of session this will be fairly transparent to you. If you submit it late for some reason, you need to know that your claim form may not be sent to HR until the next claim cutoff date, which could be nearly two weeks away, and then you will not be paid for about another two weeks.

If there is a problem with your claim - e.g. you filled in the form incorrectly, or did not get it signed off by the lecturer or class admin, or if you don't have a contract when you submit the pay claim form, then there could be further delays.

Moral: submit your pay claim form as early as possible, after checking its contents with your lecturer or class administrator.

Claiming for extra work

If you are asked to do extra work beyond what is in your contract, and thus beyond what was claimed for on your SAL122 sessional claim form, then you need to use SAL117 and a "blue form" titled payment for part-time teaching (both available from the rack outside the School Office).

The blue form documents that the extra work that you did was approved by the lecturer or class administrator, and thus needs to be signed off by that person.

The SAL117 goes to Salaries Section after it has been signed by appropriate people in the School. Your lecturer or class administrator can help you to complete this. You need to sign the SAL117 but the lecturer or class administrator does not.

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Last modified: 20 April 2001