IEU members at a Queensland Catholic school have been allocated paid time to complete compulsory professional development (PD) after previously being expected to complete it in their personal time.
Organiser Mary May said members at the school had, for a number of years, been required to do all mandatory PD at the beginning of the year in their own time.
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