Supply survey 2021
The NEU’s annual supply member survey examines a range of issues relating to supply staff and their pay and employment.
Supporting supply members with agencies
Advice for branches in supporting supply members by engaging with agencies.
Measures under a TUPE transfer
A “measure” is a very broad term which will apply to any deliberate change in working conditions or practices which your employer wants to introduce.
Academies
The NEU is opposed to academisation yet supports and represents its members in academies in the same way as members in local authority maintained schools.
Rights and conditions
Advice and guidance about your rights at work and the conditions of your employment, including information on maternity and paternity leave, redundancy, workload and key documents.
Advice
Working in an academy
Know your rights, so you can act collectively to safeguard them.
Getting involved in information and consultation
TUPE information and consultation process and the key issues to be aware of
What is TUPE about?
TUPE is shorthand for the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection and Employment) Regulations 2006, a legal framework around which you can involve and engage members to act collectively to protect and advance their rights as they transfer to a new employer.
Preparing for transfer to an Academy
The process of transferring staff from one employer to another (eg an academy) is governed by the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 ( TUPE).
Parental bereavement leave
A brief summary of the right to parental bereavement leave and how it can be claimed.
Relationships at Work - Model Policy
From time to time, personal relationships may exist or develop between work colleagues. This model policy is designed to help NEU members manage expectations to ensure such situations are dealt with fairly and consistently.
Data protection: rights and obligations
The purpose of this guidance is to provide a broad outline of rights and responsibilities under data protection legislation.
Express and implied contract terms
This document provides a basic overview of how the terms forming part of most contracts of employment work.
Contract of employment - guidance for teachers in England
This guidance sets out the items that must be covered in your employment contract (or statement of particulars).
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 and support staff?
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.
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
Guide to teachers’ maternity rights explaining, as simply as possible, the various maternity and parental rights available to all teachers (e.g. shared parental leave), whether full or part time.
Press release
Violation of workers’ rights at seven-year high
Violations of workers’ rights are at a seven-year high, according to the newly released 2020 ITUC Global Rights Index.