Not being paid for induction days? is this normal?

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I'm changing jobs for September and have been invited for induction day. However, my current school insists you take these days unpaid (it's in our policies supposedly).
Just wondering if anybody is working in a school with same policy. I always thought these were paid? Just testing what the norms are before I contest it

For teaching roles? No, I’ve never known induction days not to be paid.

Why would your school pay you to work elsewhere?

Usually ive seen it where supply is charged by the old school to the new school to cover your class. You are then ‘unpaid’ and the new school should pay for that day as an extra payment in september.

I've always found that induction days worked on goodwill so my school would pay me to attend a new school, and my replacement's school would pay them for a deal.
The schools I've worked at recognise that they'd want their new starters to visit so they show the same courtesy to outgoing staff

That's what I thought. Assumed it was reciprocal goodwill.

My school is still expecting their new staff to attend induction. Feel it's a bit tight.

Because most schools do it on a reciprocal basis. They have new staff coming in and some leaving. I've always known it that you just let staff go paid but you don't pay for those attending your induction day.

I've always been paid as normal from my current school, but the new school always pays supply costs to cover your absence.

I think your new school should pay your current school for cover. So that would mean current school would still pay you for those days, as costs covered by new school.

This has been my experience, but if one school decides to be a maverick and not pay staff, insisting that the new school pays them, it then throws that all out of kilter. Then you could have the situation where a school pays current staff when they go for induction elsewhere, but is then also expected to pay new staff. If schools insists their staff take days off unpaid for inductions, are they always then paying their new joiners for the day of induction? They should be, or they can't complain if their new staff cannot work an induction day because they are not getting paid!

My last move, the new school paid my old school for the induction days.

This has always been my experience, I moved schools every year between 2016-2021 and it was always managed this way.

My experience with an induction day was that my current school paid me. They didn't allow me to take more than one day, which my new school was understanding about.

Perhaps that's the compromise- one day only, so it is paid?

I've only ever once been unpaid for this and it was a Harris Academy.