Redundancy of hours and academic salary spread over whole year

miniemma

Hi All

I have had some of my working hours made redundant. I am dropping from 20 hours to 12 hours.

I work in a school but I am paid every month, even through the holidays, my hours for the year are added together and then divided by 12 and I am paid that figure monthly. There is no choice about this and it wasn't a problem until now.

My hours drop at the end of May following a consultancy period and I will work the rest of the school year (just over 6 weeks) at 12 hours/week.

I have been speaking with HR at our local authority and they say that my June, July and August pay packets will all be at the level of a 12 hour week. By my calculations I am missing out on some of my salary because the vast majority of the school year I have been working 20 hours and some of that should have been paid in my August pay packet.

They say that it is too hard to work out due to our paid holiday (4.4 weeks) having to be taken during school holidays and they can't work out how much of that time I will have used. They also say it has always been like that and it's all swings and roundabouts and it's in our T&Cs - it's not, I've read them.

I'm not a member of a union.

Can anyone else see my problem or am I wrong?

getmore4less

Did they offer full redunundancy as an option?


As for the problem I see where you are coming from.

The its too hard argument does not wash.


Not that familiar with the pay structures so will have a stab based on a full year with a Sept/Aug year seems normal for schools


Term time say 38weeks 20hrs per week thats 760 hours.

Holidays due in weeks is 5.6*38/46.4 = 4.586 = 91.72 hours.
In hours would be 760*12.07% = 91.73.

lets say 92.

so total hours pay due is 852. so thats 71 hours per month

Sept to May is 9month so 639hrs paid

Now you have gone to 12 hours for 6weeks
so thats 32*20 + 6*12 =712
holiday is 712*12.07% = 85.9 say 86

Total pay 798 less the 693 paid so far that leaves 105

The last 3 months 35hours


New hours are 12*38 = 456 *1.1207 = 511/12 = 42.6hours


I would keep quiet look like they are overpaying you.

miniemma

Thanks getmore

I've done 2 similar calculations, the first one I came out on top, the second I didn't! So somwhere inbetween and we break even.

Thinking about it further, the local authority suggested it's all swings and roundabouts and actually my hours have increased 2 or 3 times over the last 5 years and my pay has always risen with immediate effect so at some point I was probably better off.

Full redundancy was offered to all at my level and a few took it which meant a few of us could keep our jobs with lower hours. We will receive compensation for loss of hours.

It's a funny old game - not.

getmore4less

why not show your working, might see somthing wrong with one of them.

When you think about it for a Sept-Aug year the amount of nonworking weeks upto the summer break is more than the summer break weeks.

Freddie_Snowbits

miniemma wrote: »

I'm not a member of a union.

I just love it, I have the same at my part time place as well. they all come out of University with no brains and think they can stand on two feet.

Then they all want to be the boss and suddenly they're burnt out at 30!

My first boss would not speak to me until I had filled in the union card!