Job Keeper does not keep jobs for Casual Relief Teachers

I love teaching. I have been a teacher since 1977 in three systems. But I am a CRT and don’t get paid unless I am replacing someone who is sick.
Just heard that the JobKeeper payment will be debated in Parliament on Wednesday. It will support millions of workers, but I’m worried that many CRTs (Casual Relief Teachers) will miss out due to the proposed requirement of 12 months’ work for a single employer.
Since 2009, I have been a CRT. At that time I was a founding member of Latrobe Valley CRT Network.
Many young CRTs couldn’t get work when they first started and older teachers like me found it difficult to meet the professional learning requirements. With help from the government of the time and VIT (Victorian Institute of Teaching, the registration and professional body) we got funding for Professional Development. This funding eventually dried up as the government sorted more economical ways to ensure we got assistance. Both teacher unions IEU VicTas and AEU Victoria have worked together to give us ongoing support.
State funding did this! Federal government has been miserly in its support of CRTs.
We don’t have a contract, but we are there for our local schools whenever they need us to fill in for unwell staff or other backup like giving teachers time to learn and implement new skills during term.
Come the holidays we are not paid. In fact, it had to be said that nothing has been organised for CRTs to assist in the coming months with the learning needs of the many students who will need close monitoring at home to stay focused on developing literacy, numeracy, social skills and other important areas of learning like science, art and music.
My wife works three days a week and her wage as a teacher is just under what people who go on Jobseeker will be given to keep them afloat. Now I am ineligible for Jobseeker as I am now 65, but I am not eligible for a pension as my wife earns too much!
I have made myself available to schools but I also like to do community volunteering like driving someone to do her shopping at the Foodbank, serving at a secondary school Breakfast Club, playing hymns for elderly folk in a Nursing Home each month, homework club with the primary school around the corner, being part of a camping group that offers opportunities to young people to get away while their families have done respite, running the Latrobe Valley CRT blog, doing music at my church, etc. but much of this stuff I am unable to do.
I can’t even go on holiday in my new vintage caravan to explore the country.
Not that I can afford that...
Jobkeeper needs to consider the many people like me who now have no way to contribute to making our country tick. We’re willing but we don’t count, even though I know we really do!
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