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Change of teaching hours/days.

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1805 · 04/07/2012 17:56

".....including twilight teaching and Saturday morning teaching.

Emails may continue to be sent to you during the school holidays, because we can?t hold them back.........."

I have just received an e mail from work which includes the above. Can an organisation MAKE me start teaching in the evenings and on saturdays??

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mummytime · 04/07/2012 18:09

Do you have a Union? I would start talking to them.

LadyFerret · 04/07/2012 18:18

I believe that you cannot be made to as long as you work in a school and your employer is bound by the Teachers' Pay and Conditions 2011. I will search and post the relevant paragraph.

PandaNot · 04/07/2012 18:25

If you are covered by teachers pay and conditions they can require (direct) you to work 1265 hours spread over 195 days and no more. Traditionally these days have been Monday to Friday for 39 weeks of the year but they don't have to be. But they can't direct you to work more than those hours.

LadyFerret · 04/07/2012 18:29

School Teachers' Pay and Conditions 2011

63.1 No teacher may be required to work on any Saturday, Sunday or public
holiday unless their contract of employment expressly provides for this.

Also relevant:

Specified working hours

62.4 A teacher employed full-time must be available to perform such duties
at such times and such places as may be specified by the head teacher
(or, where the teacher is not assigned to any one school, by the
employer or the head teacher of any school in which the teacher may
for the time being be required to work as such) for 1258.5 hours, those
hours to be allocated reasonably throughout those days in the school
year on which the teacher is required to be available for work.

62.6 In addition to the hours a teacher is required to be available for work
under sub-paragraph 4 or 5, as the case may be, a teacher must
work such reasonable additional hours as may be necessary to
enable the effective discharge of the teacher?s professional duties,
including, in particular planning and preparing courses and lessons;
and assessing, monitoring, recording and reporting on the learning
needs, progress and achievements of assigned pupils.

62.7 The employer must not determine how many of the additional hours
referred to in sub-paragraph 6 must be worked or when these hours
must be worked.

In other words, you cannot be made to work on a Saturday unless your contract says so. You can only be directed to work in a particular time and place for 1265 hours a year. You are expected to do more work such as marking, but you cannot be told when or where to do it.

1805 · 04/07/2012 18:32

I am on Teachers Pay and Conditions.
I work part time and started the job in 2001.

I have never worked after 3.30pm in all that time. I have always had to do a saturday morning centre, so that would be less of a change.

Will be on to union first thing tomorrow morning!!!

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LadyFerret · 04/07/2012 18:37

This is where you can download the whole document.

TPCD2011

1805 · 04/07/2012 18:39

I wonder exactly what 'twilight' hours are? My dh leaves for work at 5pm at the latest so it could seriously b*er up our childcare.

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1805 · 04/07/2012 18:40

Thanks.

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NonnoMum · 04/07/2012 18:44

Just out of interest - what has happened? Has your school just become an academy or something?

1805 · 04/07/2012 18:52

Nonno - have pm'ed you.

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flexybex · 04/07/2012 19:36

Do 'twilight hours' depend on the time of year? Or does it mean you'll be expected to work until REALLY LATE in the summer? Grin

KitKatGirl1 · 04/07/2012 22:07

I know several schools in our area who require all staff to be on the premises till either 5 or 6pm...and lots of schools offer twilight classes which I guess run at the end of the normal day so 3.45-4.45 or 4-5 depending on normal finish time.

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