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THE WORKING HOURS OF TEACHERS21. CONDITIONS OF SERVICEPart 2, Section 2 of the SNCT Handbook outlines the main terms and conditions ofemployment that relate to working hours. The main elements are outlined below.(a)(b)(c)(d)A contractual 35 hour week.Maximum class contact to be 22.5 hours in all sectors.Preparation and correction time should be no less than 1/3 of actual class contacttime.Tasks which do not require the teacher to be on school premises can be carried outat a time and place of the teacher’s choosing.(e) The use of the time between class contact/preparation correction time and the 35hour week must be agreed at school level and can include a range of the followingactivities which are subject to agreement at school level.• additional time for preparation and correction• parent meetings• staff meetings• formal assessment• preparation of reports, records etc• curriculum development• forward planning• continuing professional development• additional supervised pupil activity• professional review and development.(f)(g)The working year for teachers amounts to 195 days.In addition, there is a contractual commitment to complete up to 35 hours perannum on continuing professional development activities.RIGHT TO A PERMANENT CONTRACTSection 8.5 of the previous Scheme of Conditions of Service read as follows:A teacher who is employed on the temporary staff may at any time apply for atransfer to the permanent staff and the application shall normally not be refused if ateacher has given satisfactory full-time continuous service for a period of one year.Transfer, where granted, should normally be from 1 August.This provision remains in Part 4 of the SNCT Handbook unless and until it is overtaken bylocal agreement.The Code of Practice on the Use of Temporary Contracts (Part 2, Appendix 2.8 of the SNCTHandbook) aims to ensure that employees on temporary contracts are not treated lessfavourably than permanent employees and temporary teachers should be provided withthe same access to information on vacancies as is provided to existing permanent postholders.Movement to a permanent post is open to temporary teachers through normal application,however transfer to a permanent contract will be through arrangements agreed by the76September 2012
Local Negotiating Committee for Teachers (LNCT). Members wishing to transfer topermanent contracts are advised to seek guidance from their local association secretary.LEAVE ENTITLEMENTContractually teachers are entitled to a leave allowance equivalent to the balance of daysleft when they have completed the 195 days’ service required of them. Provisions forannual leave are detailed in Part 2, Section 5 of the SNCT Handbook.All teachers will accrue leave on the basis of 0.2051 of a day for each day worked, pro ratafor each part day worked. In effect this provides 40 days’ paid leave per annum.The leave year begins on 1 September and leave cannot be carried forward from one yearto another except for some maternity and sickness leave. Where a teacher leaves theemployment of a council the leave entitlement is calculated as above less the number ofdays leave already taken.Full details of leave arrangements are in the SNCT Handbook.INCREMENTAL PROGRESSIONAll teachers on the Maingrade Scale are entitled to a salary increment as at 1 Augustprovided they have 26 weeks’ qualifying service in the preceding salary year.A week’s qualifying service comprises any week in which a teacher is employed by a localauthority (including periods of annual leave, public holidays, sickness absence, maternityleave or other special leave), regardless of the number of hours worked.PERIODS OF NOTICEThe period of notice to be given by a teacher on leaving an authority’s employment is:Unpromoted teacherPromoted teacher4 weeks8 weeksThe amount of notice to be given by an authority on termination of a teacher’s service is asfollows:Periods of Continuous ServicePeriod of Notice(a)Unpromoted TeacherUp to 4 years4 weeks5 years but less than 12 years 1 week for each year of continuous service12 years or more 12 weeks(b)Promoted Teachers1 to 8 years 8 weeks9 years but less than 12 years 1 week per each year of continuous service12 years or more 12 weeksFor the most part teachers and authorities do regard periods of notice as working weeksbecause it is in the interests of all concerned that vacancies be filled timeously otherwisethe burden caused by the vacancy falls on the teaching staff.77September 2012
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