Any accountants or HR people?

[Scaredypup]

I’m hoping for someone with some knowledge of how term time pro rata contracts work in schools?

I'm not HR or an accountant but I do work in a school if that helps?

Term time contracts are paid over 12 months.

I am an accountant who retrained in HR. 😁. I don’t know about schools or term time contracts though. You definitely need HR help with this, it isn’t an accountant thing at all.

What do you need to know?

There have been lots of threads about this in the past. Try a search!

Your holiday entitlement in weeks is added to your actual working weeks to give you your total paid weeks and then this is divided over 12 months so that you get paid in equal monthly instalments.

Not sure if anyone will be able to answer without exact figures but worth a shot…

I started in February and have just handed my notice in which takes me into the summer
holidays. They are saying I owe them money. I didn’t think this possible with how it’s spread equally? I was actually still expecting pay in August.

Theure only calculating my working weeks from the beginning of the tax year too which o kind of understand but doesn’t seem right.

This might help ? unisonwestsussex.org.uk/news/school-support-staff-notice/

Have a look at clause 10.1 in the attached link, it's complicated. https://www.emcouncils.gov.uk/write/Part441218Feb19.pdf

Sometimes April is used if it's the start of the annual leave year. Whether you look from February or April until the summer it's likely that a disproportionate amount of annual leave has fallen in that portion of the year e.g Feb half term (possibly), Easter, May half term and the summer holiday.