Limit of 32 days leave for ALL public servants

mick kk

Heard this yesterday as part of the big announcement. Didn't pay any heed to it but someone told me that someone told them etc..that there is a plan down the line to have us in in June supervising and correcting and this 32 days will eventually be applied to us somehow...anyone know anything about this?

dory

It can only be heresay for now. My main fear is that the government never thought of making correcting exams part of our job until you just wrote it there. They've now seen your post and we are all doomed.

Trotter

I don't think teachers will fit into that scheme. If we were restricted to X amount of days off, we'd have to be able to take them during the year as normal.

killbillvol2

School staff are exempt from the section on standardising leave (obviously).
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amen

If we were restricted to X amount of days off, we'd have to be able to take them during the year as normal.

Why ? Your holidays are at your employers discretion. There are many companies that tell their staff to take holidays for x number of days at certain times of the year i.e. Analog Devices, HP, Intel can and have shut down plants and told everyone they are taking 2,3 or even 4 weeks holidays and there is nothing you can do.

Correcting exams should be part of a teachers duties and if you have to supervise exams you should not be getting expenses to get to the exam centre. You don't get them for getting to school during term time so why should you get them for supervising exams?

Trotter

amen wrote: »

Why ? Your holidays are at your employers discretion. There are many companies that tell their staff to take holidays for x number of days at certain times of the year i.e. Analog Devices, HP, Intel can and have shut down plants and told everyone they are taking 2,3 or even 4 weeks holidays and there is nothing you can do.

Correcting exams should be part of a teachers duties and if you have to supervise exams you should not be getting expenses to get to the exam centre. You don't get them for getting to school during term time so why should you get them for supervising exams?

Im a primary teacher so I work til July usually anyway. It doesnt apply to me and Im not up to speed on any of the exam correction arrangements. Still if I was sent 50km or so away to supervise or do language orals, Id be looking for milage.

golden virginia

amen wrote: »

Why ? Your holidays are at your employers discretion.

Can you explain this statement ?

implausible

golden virginia wrote: »

Can you explain this statement ?

Oh, in fairness, it's fairly predictable commentary from the "I went to school so I am an expert in your job and nobody works as hard as me" brigade:rolleyes:

spurious

What about all the 'crap teachers' that the great public would believe we are drowning in?
Will they be 'crap correctors' too?
Joe, won't somebody think of the children?

doc_17

amen wrote: »

Why ? Your holidays are at your employers discretion. There are many companies that tell their staff to take holidays for x number of days at certain times of the year i.e. Analog Devices, HP, Intel can and have shut down plants and told everyone they are taking 2,3 or even 4 weeks holidays and there is nothing you can do.

Correcting exams should be part of a teachers duties and if you have to supervise exams you should not be getting expenses to get to the exam centre. You don't get them for getting to school during term time so why should you get them for supervising exams?

Maybe you should think about that for a while

Rosita

amen wrote: »

Why ? Your holidays are at your employers discretion. There are many companies that tell their staff to take holidays for x number of days at certain times of the year i.e. Analog Devices, HP, Intel can and have shut down plants and told everyone they are taking 2,3 or even 4 weeks holidays and there is nothing you can do.

This sort of commentary would genuinely do your head in.

While the names of these foreign computery type companies are very impressive I think you'll find that teachers are precisely in that same position. If I wanted to teach a class in school in the first week in August it'd be problematic with my employer. (Obviously I wouldn't be as motivated as the people in those other companies so luckily it doesn't arise in practice)

And I can but gaze forlornly at cheap holidays in, say, January, March or November and remember the glory days when I worked in the private sector and could avail of such a holiday on more or less any date - generally unhindered by my employer.

You should avoid stupid generalisations. We didn't all come down in the last shower you know.