Rights and conditions
Advice and guidance about your rights at work and the conditions of your employment.
Advice
Flexible working
Your rights to ask for flexible working, i.e. a change in your terms and conditions relating to the hours you work, the times you work or whether you work at home for all or part of the week. You are encouraged to take informal steps before using the statutory procedure.
Medical assessments while in employment
Issues which often arise in relation to medical assessments at work.
Workload and working time
The purpose of this advice is to summarise teachers’ conditions of service, as set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD).
Support staff term-time working
An initial section of guidance on term-time working has now been agreed between the local government employers and the recognised trade unions
Pay scales in academies and trusts
Details of how academies and trusts set pay scales and what pay and conditions arrangements are in place in these workplaces.
Medical Reports
Some of the most common issues arising in relation to medical reports prepared by GPs, occupational health physicians and other health professionals on behalf of employers, pension scheme trustees and health insurers.
Part time teachers’ pay and conditions
An introduction to the pay and conditions arrangements of part time teachers
Agency worker regulations
What are the Agency Worker Regulations 2010 and what protection do they offer supply teachers?
Supply teacher rights
Supply teachers who are in a 'pool' maintained by a LA, those located through the school's own contacts, or part-timers who wish to temporarily increase their hours, are likely to be employees of the school or LA for their period of supply work.
Settlement agreements
What settlement agreements are, when and why they are used, and the implications of signing one.
References
Answers to the most commonly asked questions about job references.
Employment rights in the further education sector
Details of your statutory rights as an employee in the Further education sector. In some cases your contract will provide you with better terms and conditions and, if this is the case, those better terms and conditions will apply.
Employment rights in sixth form colleges
Details about your employment rights under the Red Book as well as the minimum rights you are entitled to under general employment law.
Employee rights in the independent sector
Details about your employment rights in independent schools in England, Wales and Scotland.
Making work fit
The duty to make reasonable adjustments requires school and college leaders to proactively identify barriers (both physical and attitudinal) to the inclusion of disabled people in the workplace.
Maternity rights
As well as statutory maternity rights, most teachers are also covered by the maternity rights scheme for teachers, set out in the Burgundy Book national agreement on conditions of service.