Part-time teaching and directed time questions please

[LivingForTheWinter]

I'm on a 0.6 contract.
I have been told I'm expected to attend various events on my days off, both parents' evenings and things like open evenings. The first INSET was on a day off for me but I've only just started so didn't feel I could argue. I had to pay for childcare that day

Where do I stand please?

No you shouldn't be doing this. I didn't work on a Friday and if my school had INSET on a Friday I didn't attend.

You can’t be forced to work on a day that is not your normal working day. You can be asked to work, in which case you should be asking for overtime or time off in lieu. For parents evenings and open evenings it’s a bit trickier, but your school should have a directed time calendar and they should have calculated how these fit into your directed time.

I have a member who cannot be required to attend ANY meetings because they're all on their day off.

They have volunteered to come in for parents' evenings but will be paid for that.

Thanks. Is there an amount of directed time that is deemed acceptable?

You do a maximum of 0.6 of whatever an equivalent member of staff does. That's all.

And you can only be directed in days on which you ordinarily work.

0.6 * 1265 hours per year.

Only if the full time equivalent does 1265

So if every parents eve or any other day isn't on my ordinary working day I don't do it? Even if that means I end up doing zero?

That's correct.

If they want you to do them, they either pay you, give you time off in lieu or find time in your working week for you to do it.

But they can't make you.

I would have this conversation with your line manager/SLT now to avoid disagreements about it later in the year.
How many INSETS/parent's eves are they expecting you to do? Will they pay you or give TOIL?
Are you in a union? They will back you up/give you guidance about this. If in NEU they have loads of advice on directed time/part time work.

I'm 0.6, my working days mean I do all the parent's eve/open eves but I miss all but one INSET

Are you private or state? I'm private and it's written into my contract that I have to attend parents' evenings. If an INSET falls on my non-working day, I am expected to attend but get paid more for it.

Your school should have met with you to go through the DTB and agree between you what you will and will not attend. 100% nothing on your days off unless they pay you or give TOIL.
You can look at 2 ways….
Do 60% of everything so 60% of parents eves, CPD sessions, PM targets or do 60% as an overall so swapping 5 x 1hr CPD for a training day.
Some schools insist on one model.
Am Secondary and have 5 part timers who I line manage so have done DTB budgets for years.
sometimes you can’t even get to 60% of DTB if meetings fall on your days off and that’s not your fault at all. Don’t use your PPA to do tasks that full timers have allocated time for such as H&S training, PM reviews.