Coronavirus: workload and working entitlements
Advice on workload and working in school or at home during the coronavirus crisis.
Directed time
Directed time is when teachers are directed by their head teacher to be at work and available for work. Find out more on how to win on directed time in your workplace.
Workload reduction toolkit
One of the ways reps have managed to win on workload has been through the use of the DfE toolkit, an online resource developed in consultation with the education unions and Ofsted.
Working Time Regulations and independent schools
What legal protection is there on working long hours?
Advice
Life Balance for Teachers Model Policy- Checklist
The most common queries NEU members have on balance their working lives with their other commitments.
Life Balance for Teachers - Model Policy
All teachers, including head teachers are entitled to enjoy a reasonable work/life balance. This policy is designed to ensure that all teachers are able to balance their working lives with their other commitments.
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).
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.
Blog
DfE Workload Survey 2019
The DfE is making much of their efforts to reduce the workload of teachers; their 2019 Workload Survey (TWS) report shows a drop in reported working hours of teachers compared to the TWS 2016.
Press release
Teachers’ Working Hours
NEU comment on the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) study showing that teachers work the longest hours.