School Term Contract - Any benefits available?

Oakey76uk

I am contracted to work 5days/wk during school term time and have 20days annual leave. This leave me with 10 weeks unpaid leave a year (or 50days) at my reckoning.
Are there any benefits that i can claim during these periods of unpaid leave?

shoe*diva79

Is your salary not pro rated so its paid every month?

devildog

Typically when working in a school you are paid pro-rata. Which basically means your yearly wage is worked out and divided by weeks in a year so every month(whether it is school holidays or not) you will get paid the same amount.

Oakey76uk

shoe*diva79 wrote: »

Is your salary not pro rated so its paid every month?

No. Apparently they do that on request April to April and i started on 16th so missed out

Oakey76uk

Oakey76uk wrote: »

No. Apparently they do that on request April to April and i started on 16th so missed out

I don't work for a school. I work for a company that does Yellow School Buses

FBaby

You will have to do it for yourself then, divide your annual salary by 52, then put aside what extra you get weekly to that figure to assess your monthly budget. It comes to the same. If that isn't enough income, can you look at working in holiday clubs? I know our local ones are always looking for staff.