Redundancy from school

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Hi, quite new here and certainly new to all this redundancy lark. I was wondering if any of you had experience of redundancy in schools. I am taking advice from my Union but there seems to be a stalemate at the moment between Union and HR. I am support staff and as such am paid 39 weeks of the year + 25 days statutory holiday pay and the whole lot is split over 12 months. My Union says I should receive 12 working weeks notice (so not including school holidays) but HR seems to think they can include school holidays. Anyone have any idea who is right and where I can find it in writing? Thanks in advance.
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Statutory leave is typically 28 days (it's technically 5.6 weeks) so just clarify that one.
Typically notice is just a length of time, whether it's work time or not. But the union may have negotiated a different amount.
- we couldn't say.
It is not unusual to have special clauses in school contacts that align notice to term schedules.
Where full timer are considered to get statutory holiday for 39 weeks working should be 5.6 * (39/46.4) = 23.45days
The final payments should be adjusted when leaving part way through a year based on how many weeks have been worked and holidays accrued for those against the number of weeks pay.
That will depend when the holiday(and pay ) year starts.
You really need to check with your union where they are getting the information from that school holidays are not included in the notice period. That is, where in the Green Book does it state this. You are paying them for their advice!
Sounds as if it to your advantage that the school's notice period is used
the green book
https://www.atl.org.uk/Images/Green%20book.pdf
25 days may not be correct holiday entitlement for some one working 39 weeks, depends how many of the BH fall into the "working weeks" and how many fall into the rest of the year.
I actually get an extra 4 days holiday a year as I have over 5 years service. Unfortunately, I am at the peril of the school as I wouldn't know where to start breaking down pay, holidays, BH's etc and seeing what my entitlement is. I do know that some of our BH's are used in half terms/other school holidays