Do teachers get paid over the holidays?

[Frenchvanilla]

I know they don't in the US, but what about over here?

[NeedaDiscoNap]

I am also in Scotland and on mat leave - in my last pay I was paid for holidays accrued, as when my mat leave started I hadn't been paid for all the holidays in that academic year.

By the time I plan to go back, I will have accrued holidays - it works as one day for each long weekend/half week and two days for each week. I'm able to tag them onto my mat leave so I can be off for an extra month on full pay.

[Fadingmemory]

DoE document which may help

www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCEQFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F271275%2F130806_2013_stpcd_master_final.pdf&ei=RbZJVP2WE6mr7AasqIGwAQ&usg=AFQjCNGhi3F7CY_2PEZ87mu6jLL_2YZiHQ&bvm=bv.77880786,d.d2s

[lollystick]

In regards to the post about maternity cover pay, that would depend on your contract. It may be until a certain date e.g teacher's return which may not include summer holidays. Schools now have the freedom to set their own pay/contract terms out. A mat cover post is different to an ordinary post as effectively you are only covering for the post holders absence & they have the right to return whenever they choose. X

[CindyLou]

Interesting.
I work supply.
DH has been trying to get me to go full time in a teaching job as he says I am missing out on holiday pay, as obviously have no work in the school hols.
The agency daily rate includes 'holiday pay' and I assumed this was just the bank hols that any agency worker in any field would get .
But perhaps includes the 5.6 weeks..? If so, I have an argument to counteract DH.
Need to investigate.....

[Therealyellowwiggle]

I have accrued holidays during ML. (Scotland).

[ACheesePuff]

I don't get this. Teachers are paid a yearly salary aren't they, they are not paid by the hour, or week? So how can anyone say they are paid a statutary minimum for the holidays?

[Charpop1000]

If teachers are on a yearly salary divided into 12 equal payments then how can I, on a fixed-term contract covering a maternity leave, not be paid for the summer holiday when the teacher I'm covering returns (potentially 2 days or so before the summer break!)? I will have worked the full year of teaching but will not receive my pay entitlement if my pay has been split into 12 equal months and I only get 10 of them!?

[sashh]

I'm on a temporary contract through an agency. I get paid per hour and a % of that is holiday pay.

[knitknack]

Ah, thank you! That IS clear! :)

[BoundandRebound]

Not meaning you earn pro rata of course

[BoundandRebound]

Holiday allowance is accounted for within the pay grade so you'll be at something like 86% of what you'd make if you worked full time though the year with 20 - 25 days off.

[knitknack]

Are you sure about this? Only our union rep explained it to us the other day as we're currently looking at the teacher's pay and conditions document? Can you recommend anywhere online lays our holiday entitlement out for us to read (in simple terms!!)? :)

[soapboxqueen]

We have the same holiday entitlement as anyone else. It's just that when the law was applied to teaching it didn't change anything. It was a paper exercise only.

[knitknack]

No, we're not paid FOR the holidays but our pay is divided into 12 chunks and paid monthly. We're one of the only jobs WITHOUT paid holiday entitlement!!

[heggiehog]

TAs get the same pay arrangement as teachers here too.

Teachers aren't paid for the holidays but they do receive money during them as pay from the others months of the year are split into 12 equal payments.

[ravenAK]

We get paid for 1265 hours over 195 days (ie. term time + INSET days) but in 12 chunks, one per calendar month.

Supply teachers get their annual salary/195 for each day worked.

[soapboxqueen]

we get paid in the holidays but not for the holidays iyswim.

We are only paid for the days worked during term time but that pay is spread out over the year so that there is a monthly income.

[Beveridge]

Yes. Unless perhaps you have just finished a temporary contract, but even then you will have built up some holiday entitlement.