leaving a term time only job - pay query

schoolworker_2

I am leaving a term time only job at the end of the month. My contract is for 39 weeks a year but it is paid in 12 equal monthly instalments and I believe an amount is added on in lieu of holiday pay.

By my calculations I will have worked more hours than I have been paid for when I leave. I work 20 hours per week but because of being paid in 12 monthly instalments it means I am paid for the equivalent of 15 hours per week. When I leave I will have worked 240 hours but will only have been paid the equivalent of about 195 hours. Had it just been a couple of hours I would not be bothered, but 45 hours is a significant amount!

The personnel person is not at work at the moment and nobody else at the school seems to know the answer to this. It is independant so no local authority HR department to ask either! the company that run the payroll have said that unless the school tells them otherwise I will get a 'normal' months pay. So if there are any school pay experts out there any advice on whether I should be paid for these hours would be gratefully received.

schoolworker_2

bump......

Horace

ACAS may be able to advise...https://www.acas.org.uk

Have a word with the headmaster..it is hardly your fault if the HR person is not there..the headmaster will need to tell the company who run the payroll.

sprogs

Are you going to another school? If you are then you will get paid one twelfth of your annual salary at the new school even though you have started mid way through the year - this happened to me. I thought I would get less during the first year as I had started half way through the school year but was told it didn't work like that. Made the August pay even nicer!

schoolworker_2

Head doesn't know but is apparently trying to find out, nothing about it in my contract and pay roll is run tomorrow!

schoolworker_2

Not going to another school and am beginning to think the one I am at is playing a game!

Anybody that can offer some advice??

schoolworker_2

I was wrong about the contract - there are 2 parts, part 1 says 20 hours a week with an overall annual commitment to 780 hours and this is in part 2:

"staff who are employed to work term time only receive an annual salary based on the number of weeks for which they are employed plus the normal annual and public holiday entitlement. Annual salary for such staff is calcuated by multiplying the number of hours worked per year by the full time salary at the point on the salary scale at which the member os staff is currently paid and dividing this by a denominator of 1647 based on a 36 hour full time working week.

The resulting annual salary is paid in 12 equal monthly spreadover payments that include holiday pay. there is therefore no entitlement to any period of paid annual leave.

Should you give notice of resignation from this appointment you would be paid up to the date of termination, except that, where the period of notice expires at or after the end of the summer term and you have worked your full contracted hours for the preceding academic year, you would be paid up to 31st August. Otherwise where the period of notice expires during a school holiday you would be paid only for the period up to and including the last day on which you work. No recalculation of salary wil be made when your employment terminates."

So, the first sentance of the last paragraph says I will paid up to the date of termination, and the last sentance says no recalculation of salary. Does this mean the fact I have worked 45 hours more than I have been paid for is just tough luck?

farmerboy

schoolworker wrote: »

No recalculation of salary wil be made when your employment terminates."

So, the first sentance of the last paragraph says I will paid up to the date of termination, and the last sentance says no recalculation of salary. Does this mean the fact I have worked 45 hours more than I have been paid for is just tough luck?

Looks like it, unfotunatly you agreed to this when you signed the contract so I don't think you have any recourse to change it

schoolworker_2

What a pain, term time workers beware!