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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Teachers are not paid for the 13 weeks holiday. Try reading one of their contracts. It doesn't matter how you try to spin it, that's the contract. Changing them to the same holiday periods as other workers means paying them more as their contracted hours go up. I doubt that the government have any appetite for that.
A large part of the work teachers do out of hours is planning and marking. Planning is dependent on previous lessons, marking has to be done in a timely fashion else Ofsted get upset.
A lot of the work teachers do is reactive to events during contact time. What do you suggest teachers do working for weeks on end with no contact time? They can't plan their lessons for the next year. They can't save their marking up.
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There is no holiday entitlement specified in the contract. Teachers are salaried for 12 months ,they get paid during the summer months regardless of whether they are in school or not so all this talk of working unpaid during holidays is quite frankly complete bollocks because as part of the contract they are required to work any reasonable hours even if that means going over the 1265 hrs and looking at the pay scales the wage isn't that bad for 195 days work
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Originally Posted by Paul M
Thats exactly how it works, you are paid for 4 weeks of holiday, but your actual payments are spread evenly across the year.
Anyone who says they have 13 weeks paid holiday is wrong, plain and simple.
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As i just posted ,there is no holiday entitlement in a teachers contract because (presumably) they are only contracted for 195 days a year .They will however get statutory days the same as anyone else and they certainly do not do unpaid work