Not being paid for interview?

[Rainbowsandunicorns85]

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

@Rainbowsandunicorns85

Your post is on the main front page of the app, no need to be rude to posters suggesting you don't get paid for interviews. They are correct that in other jobs you take annual leave or unpaid leave, only exception is internal interviews. I've worked in schools and no paid time off to work elsewhere (admin not teaching)

It's at a school discretion.
How many interviews have you been to?
Eventually your employer, may get. little fed up if you keep going to interviews.

In teaching however the notice period is very long ...at least half a term and a full term in the summer term.

Wherever I’ve worked, the notice period is half a term no matter which term it was. Are you saying that at your school you have to give your notice in at Easter to be able to leave in July?

OP-I have always been released on full pay for interviews.

I wonder why your head isn’t doing this? Are you going for lots of interviews?

If they dock your pay make sure you don't prepare any cover work at all.

This.

I think that being paid, or not, is down to your contract- rather than STPC. Your first port of call needs to be your union. Also check the policy document for leave.

In teaching however the notice period is very long ...at least half a term and a full term in the summer term.

So actually about the same as (or shorter than) most higher level professional jobs: three months is standard these days.

No, not the same. If you decide you want to leave on 1st June, you’ve missed the notice deadline for the summer and you can’t leave till Christmas.

If you decide you want to leave on 1st June, you’ve missed the notice deadline for the summer and you can’t leave till Christmas.

Very few people pick a random date to give notice and then work backwards, because most are leaving to go to a new job. Teachers won't be leaving on 1st june unless they're going to a non-teaching job, in which case the correct response to a chippy headacher is 'see you in court'.

I work in a school although I'm not a teacher, however the leave policy applies to everyone.

Our MAT will give you full pay for one or two interviews and then it goes to unpaid.

If this is the first interview you've had then yes I would expect full pay.

And whoever queried the leave periods - we set our own and our teachers are required to give more than half a terms notice - the dates are a month before in our MAT.

What about teachers who want to apply for the jobs of those people who handed their notice in on May 31st? Lots of teachers see jobs come up in June that they might like to go for. We’ve waited until January for really good candidates to start in the past and used a term of supply as a stopgap if the teacher couldn’t get early release. On occasions they’ve been released for September or October half term but it’s not that uncommon for teachers to get a job in June and then have to wait until January to start. In June you have to choose between NQTs, people not currently in permanent jobs, those who have handed their notice in without a job to go to, and people you have to wait until January for. If you’re looking for someone experienced for a HOD role then the most suitable candidates can’t usually start in September. If the HOD for a subject where there’s nobody internal for the HOD role resigns in May half term then you end up advertising in June and having to be flexible on start date.

Teachers won't be leaving on 1st june unless they're going to a non-teaching job

There speaks someone with no experience. I’ve certainly known teachers trapped until Christmas when something has happened in June to make them hand their notice in. Timetable issues is a big one.

Oh yes, and as Sabine says, your dream job might come up in June as the person doing it handed their notice in on 31st May, but you won’t be able to start till January.

I find this so strange to read as in Scotland we just work a month's notice (double if promoted) and then can leave. People start and leave all over the place.

Things have certainly changed. I taught for 25+ years in the UK and was always paid for interviews. Although one particularly mean HT wouldn't allow the male half of a couple teaching in the school attend their wife's first foetal scan.

I was amazed when I got to Australia that teachers can leave with a fortnight's notice because they get paid fortnightly. Most work to the end of a semester though.