AIBU to expect some kind of severance pay ?

[chicitina]

So my fixed term contract is not being renewed I will have worked at the school for two years in July. The head called a meeting with me face to face and told me "there is no job for you in September". A little background, joined the school as an NQT, was off for three months maternity last summer, I was having some difficulties in my first term, however I have now sucessfully passed my NQT year. I suspect head did not want me to continue due to the earlier issues I had. I started with a few others who all had their contracts changed to permanent whilst I was on leave. Am I entitled to claim anything ? I don't believe the dismissal is fair, also the person hired to cover me for maternity has been offered a permanent role.

When I started teaching, one year contracts were common for NQTs. If they didn’t prove their worth within a year, they were gone.

IMO, it’s too easy for really awful teachers to remain in post forever (not saying OP is, even is she posting multiple contradictory posts!)

I had to tolerate a really shit teacher in my department who was put on competences and then took the piss big time by being off ‘sick’ etc, basically pulling every trick in the book to dodge being dismissed.

I’m pleased to say it didn’t work and the children no longer have to suffer the total confusion of the teacher’s lessons . Even the TAs were unable to work out what was required!

PS: OP, you haven’t been dismissed. There’s some bloody awful advice on here. Your contract wasn’t renewed. Perfectly normal in many industries.

Ring your union advice line, OP - or their legal advice hotline number (usually this is on your membership card).

If you've completed two years service n your leaving date you're entitled to statutory redundancy pay. If you haven't, you arent.

Something isn't right here. On her other thread she says she's only been there a year and that was jan, in addition it appears she is indeed pregnant again.

I don't know how anyone can advise if she doesn't tell the whole story or misleads.

Whatever the complexities of the OPs numerous threads, many people are posting ‘facts’ that have no basis in reality.

It IS possible to be due redundancy from a fixed term contract. Teaching is particularly complex.

OP - only a specialist can advise you accurately. Suggest you take advice from someone qualified in this area rather than MN.

It's not ending after two years service. I'm failing to see the point of your post Essex, you've just confirmed what's been said.

What she wants is to benefit from Spains favourable maternity leave and get a redundancy all without actually doing work.

A thread like this shows just how useless most of MN is when it comes to legal matters.

I don't understand how come she is a posted worker. That doesn't fit.

Based on the info given, you can get severance, maternity, redundancy and a good will payment...

Is this what you want to hear...?

So- one for the legal boss: if you are employed by a UK company as a worker in an EU member state - whose employment law applies where the laws of the UK differ from those of the country in which you are working?

If in UK look for info on www.gov.uk