Off the back of threads I’ve been reading today in regards to teachers in the UK being able to take time off for a weddings and other reasons it made me realise that teachers in Ireland have much more of an allowance to take time off for these situations. For example.
- Three force majeure days per 12 months
- Illness, I’ve up to 5 days for immediate family members and three days for near Family
- Bereavement leave from one to 20 days depending on the relation of the person who is deceased.
- Each teacher gets a weeks worth of paid leave when they get married
- A days leave to attend the wedding of immediate family excluding cousins however you can use an EPV day for this.
- EPV days are extra personal vacation days and they get five of these per school year. They must do courses in order to earn these days.
- They got a days leave for graduations of immediate family members.
- They get five days paid study/exam leave.
- One day leave for attending court for separation or divorce proceedings.
- Paid leave for jury service
I’m sure there’s more leaves that I don’t know about, but it just seems that they’re a lot more amenable here.
I’m not a teacher, so this is not me posting in any way shape or form,this is me merely pointing out that I feel teachers in the UK got a hard deal and perhaps they could use this to fight more for what they are entitled to. It’s a thankless job most of the time and I don’t think it would be too much to ground people leave for important days moments in their lives and their families lives around them.