RESTORATION OF WORKING PRACTICES IN SCHOOLS: END OF INDUSTRIAL ACTION
We recently delivered a webinar for teacher members of INTO, NEU, and UTU.
Here is a link to the webinar: Directed Time Budgets - Joint Union Webinar April 2024
I have also attached a copy of the p/p slides.
In terms of your Directed Time Budget for the remainder of 2023/24 the follow should be considered:
Our view is that - if the agreed Workload Agreements are adhered to - then teachers should not be required to:
- undertake any existing or new unremunerated duties or responsibilities which aren’t within their existing Time Budgets
- undertake or participate in extra-curricular activities other than on a voluntary basis, unless they are included within their individual Directed Time Budget
- undertake any professional duties associated with Teaching Allowances that have not been reflected within individual Directed Time Budgets
- teach other than their timetabled teaching hours (up to a maximum of 25 hours in primary/special schools, and 23.5 hours in post-primary; pro-rata if part-time) and complete any cover within this limit.
- undertake any cover (including temporary compositing of classes) for absent colleagues outside of the requirements of the Jordanstown Agreement and the Workload Agreements TNC 2011, 2020, 2024
Note - you should not be required to undertake any additional work that arose from the legal, legitimate industrial action as part of our Action Short of Strike (ASOS).