Manage your membership

No! While union membership is optional, your employer cannot do anything to influence your decision to join in any way.

They are also obliged to let you participate in union activities, such as paid union meetings and discussing union business at your workplace.

NZEI Te Riu Roa subscription rates are bracketed, based on your gross fortnightly income (before tax and deductions).

The brackets are the same for everyone, however:

• If you are non-annualised support staff or your role isn’t paid all year around, please see this page for more information on how to calculate your subscriptions.
• If you are a reliever or your role has varying hours and income fortnight to fortnight, please see this page for more information on how to calculate your subscriptions.

NZEI Te Riu Roa does not receive information from members’ worksites about income, annualisation status, or members leaving their roles. If you pay by credit or direct debit and your subscription rate needs to change, please get in touch with our membership team. 

We can pause your membership payments if you are on parental leave, sick leave without pay or discretionary leave without pay. Please contact us to put your membership on hold.

Every cent of your subscription fee goes towards the work of the union. It covers staffing and campaign expenses for the various areas of work members are undertaking across the motu to create a fairer, better education sector.

Contact us to let us know when your leave is to commence and when it will cease. We will suspend direct debits for the period of leave. Your membership will be retained during any period of leave without pay for up to fifteen months.

Yes! You can actually become of Te Kupenga Rangatahi (our New Educators Network) for free! You can find more information here.

Please note that student/provisional membership does not include the same benefits as a full, paid membership of NZEI Te Riu Roa – including coverage under a collective agreement. If you are working in the education sector AND studying, it is up to you which membership type you’d prefer. 

How often you pay depends on how you choose to pay:

• If you pay by direct debit you can choose to pay fortnightly or monthly.
  If you pay by credit/debit card you can choose to pay fortnightly, monthly, three monthly, six monthly or annually.
• If you opt to be invoiced and pay by direct credit to our bank account you can choose to pay three monthly, six monthly or annually.
• Members who work at schools can opt for payroll deduction. Your membership fees are taken out of your paycheck based on your gross income each fortnightly pay

If you chose to pay fortnightly, we recommend that you pay your subscription on the day after your pay goes into your bank account. This is because direct debit and credit card transactions are normally processed by the banks before salary and wage payments. We have no control over these timings.

NZEI Te Riu Roa subscription rates are bracketed, based on your gross fortnightly income (before tax and deductions).

The brackets are the same for everyone, however:

• If you are non-annualised support staff or your role isn’t paid all year around, please see this page for more information on how to calculate your subscriptions.
• If you are a reliever or your role has varying hours and income fortnight to fortnight, please see this page for more information on how to calculate your subscriptions.

You can pay in the following ways:

• Reoccurring direct debit (fortnightly or monthly)*
• Reoccurring credit/debit card payment (fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, 6 monthly, yearly)*
• Payroll deductions through EdPay (fortnightly, only available to members working at schools/members who are paid through EdPay)  

*NZEI Te Riu Roa does not receive information from members’ worksites about income, annualisation status, or members leaving their roles. If you pay by credit or direct debit and your subscription rate needs to change, please get in touch with our membership team. 

Please contact our membership support team on 0800693443 or email nzei@nzei.org.nz for more information.

 

Subscription rates usually change only once a year. The actual rates and the thresholds at which each rate becomes payable are adjusted in line with the Consumer Price Index as at the end of December prior to the following year’s NZEI Te Riu Roa Annual Meeting.

Subscription rate changes are notified to members via NZEI Te Riu Roa news emails and individually to each member who pays by direct debit or recurring debit/credit card payments no later than 10 days before the change takes place. No action is required by most members although we do recommend checking that the rate to be paid is correct for your gross fortnightly pay.

There is a 1 month (4 weeks) notice period for membership cancellation. However, we can start the process of cancelling your membership as soon as you fill in our membership cancellation form.

After the end of our 1 month (4 weeks) notice period, your payments will stop, though the exact timing for your last payment will depend on your payment method.

If you are leaving the sector and would like us to cancel your membership at a future date, please let us know when you fill in our membership cancellation form.