Not being paid for interview?

[Rainbowsandunicorns85]

Umm - anyone any idea if this is legal or not? Permanent contract and FT.

Who's interviewing who?

Pardon?

Your post makes no sense

I take it that you are coming into work especially to have a job interview, it is quite reasonable that they don’t pay you. You don’t have to come.

Are you the interviewer or interviewee? Who isn’t paying you?

Do you expect to be paid if you went for a job interview? Is that the question?

Not being paid for interview?

This your thread title and you have given no information about the situation so that's why I asked the above question

Do you mean you are having to take a day's unpaid leave to attend an interview?

I've never heard of this happening.

Ok, in teaching (it’s the staff room) a whole day is taken out for interviews.

I’ve always had paid days in the past when attending.

I’m baffled as to how it makes no sense - I’m not being paid for an interview!

That’s correct calamity and no I haven’t either!

You're not being paid for a day when you're attending an interview somewhere else - or not being paid for turning up for an interview somewhere else - or not being paid for an interview at your own school?

I’m baffled as to how it makes no sense I suspect because many posters (including me) would never dream that you’d get paid to attend an interview so in that way, the title doesn’t make any sense!

This started to get introduced at my previous work place. Note the previous

It’s not standard practice and it’s very difficult as it makes it financially punitive to attend interviews. PM me for more details or if you want to chat about it as I’d be hesitant to discuss it on an open forum.

Ok shirley but I’m in the staff room so if you don’t mind ...

Thanks unicorn. It’s designed to make things difficult if you want to move on, I think. What really is frustrating is I know staff have had paid leave for quite spurious reasons.

Ah! It came up on my active threads, I guess that’s how so many of us have wondered in by accident.

Will leave you to it!

Popped up on my active threads too so I didn't really notice what area I was in

So you're taking a day away from your usual role - which I assume will require cover by someone else at school's expense while you spend the day applying to advance your own career. And they're not paying you? Shocker

Why would you be paid to attend an interview?

Sigh, you can tell who just came in.

dont, it is standard practice. I suppose you might call it a gentleman’s agreement. I think it’s because teaching interviews are an all day job usually and because of the way they are done - I couldn’t ask for an interview to be moved from Tuesday to Wednesday when I have a lighter teaching load and I can’t take a days holiday or call in sick (not that I would anyway.)

I’m not actually advancing my career, it’s a sideways move, but yes, I have been promoted before. I have children and I want to provide for them.

Pretty sure it's not legal, speak to your union rep.

For all the non-teachers- teacher's interviews require an observed lesson, and therefore have to be done while there are children in the school you are hoping to move to, ie term time. Teachers are unable to book time off in term time, and therefore this is given as special leave, otherwise no-one would ever be able to afford to move jobs as they'd have their pay docked. So although the OP has phrased is as 'not being paid for interview' it is really 'pay being docked for interview'.

Teachers live in another world

To all those not in teaching...it’s normal in schools for teachers to have paid time off as interviews are whole day things and there isn’t an option to take annual leave. If all or most schools do it, it becomes sort of reciprocal.

So is your pay being stopped for the day?

How else do you expect us to do it then @zsazsajuju ? Should my wage be docked because I attended an interview? Should I always stay at the one school forever because I can't afford to lose that money?

We can't take annual leave. We can't negotiate the date of an interview. The interviews have to take place in term time so that we can be observed teaching. The interviews have multiple stages and take all day; for senior leadership positions- often two days.

@Zsazsajuju, given that I have explained the situation, what would your solution be?

Presumably you're in a job where you would book annual leave for an interview.

Would you just make teachers remain in the same posts forever?