Working Time Regulations and independent schools
What legal protection is there on working long hours?
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.
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).
Supply teachers - pay, conditions and working time
What should I expect to be paid as an agency supply teacher? What should I be paid for supply work of less than a day in duration? What happens if a school wants to offer me a permanent job? These and many other key questions are covered in this introductory guide to supply teaching.
Out of school hours activities
Guidance on the pay and conditions implications of teachers’ participation in out-of-school-hours learning activities
Fixed-term contracts
The legal definitions of fixed-term or temporary contracts and what steps members should take if they believe that they have been treated less favourably or denied a permanent contract in breach of the fixed-term contract regulations.
Press release
Teachers’ Working Hours
NEU comment on the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) study showing that teachers work the longest hours.