Anyone work in a school kitchen ? What happens about pay in school hols ??

[nutcracker]

Have just rung for an application form for a kitchen assistants job in a secondary school.

The ad states that they pay £6.09 an hour and it works out to 21 hrs and 15 min a week, term time only.

It doesn't say though wether you get a retainer in the hols or if youe wage is divided up between 52 weeks. I did ask when I rung for the form but the lady I spoke to wasn't sure. She said she knew that the office staff got theirs divided up over 52 weeks but that she didn't know about kitchen staff.

What I am trying to work out is, if the job is advertised at £6.09 and hour and they do divide it all up over 52 weeks, how do I work that out ??
Do I add the weekly wage up and times by 39 weeks and then divide the total by 52 weeks ??

[nutcracker]

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[nailpolish]

could you phone the council HR dept? assuming its a council run school...

or phone and ask for the pay office

[georgedontdothat]

My friend does and she gets paid through the holidays

[lljkk]

What I am trying to work out is, if the job is advertised at £6.09 and hour and they do divide it all up over 52 weeks, how do I work that out ??
Do I add the weekly wage up and times by 39 weeks and then divide the total by 52 weeks ??
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almost, add 4 weeks on for statutory holiday pay (which you have to take outside of school term time). So 39+4=43 weeks* the weekly wage for the hours worked at rate given, and then divide that by 52.

[nutcracker]

Thanks lljkk, i'd never have figured out I had to add holidays.

I will work it out that way and then hopefully it might explain further in the application pack.

[WigWamBam]

Not quite the same, but I'm a playleader at an infants school with the same council you will be paid by, and I am paid my usual weekly rate for holidays. They don't divide it by 52 - the rate I was told is the rate I get, and the only time I don't get paid is if I have to stay at home because dd is ill, or if there is a training day that I'm not involved with.

[nutcracker]

Ahh ok, i think i'll just have to wait and see what it says in the application pack.

The only way which wouldn't work for me would be either if I didn't get paid at all during hls, or got paid a retainer, cos i'd be having to change my benefit applications all the time.

[nutcracker]

Well the application pack arrived and I am non the wiser.

I'm also a bit annoyed, because the ad stated 'experiance desirable but full training will be given'.

However in the pack it states that previous kitchen and food handling experiance is essential.

I am still going to apply though because the hours are perfect for fitting in with the kids.

[tiredemma]

My aunt works at a school in sutton as kitcehn manager- she said through the holidays you still get paid but its 'half pay' - so not as much as you normally get but you still get paid.

[tiredemma]

she halso said pay no attention to the 'experience' bit. They put you on the courses anyway and she has had people in her kitchen with no experience at all.

[nutcracker]

Trouble is emma, I couldn't afford to live on the weeks I got half pay, cos my benefits would have dropped having taken into account what I earn term time.

I'd be paying some of my rent etc, so I can't be earning one amount one week and half the next.

Silly way of doing it really.

[littledetails]

Hi I work term time and you get paid for 45.39 weeks of the year. What you need to do is do the annual calculaions and divide it by 12 if your paid monthly, so you will always get the same eack month. I have never heard of getting half pay through the holidays. Hope this helps.