Part-time Teacher - Bank Holiday Entitlement?

GlassPanda

Hi All

My wife is a secondary school teacher who works four days (with Mondays being her day off). She hasn't seen anything in her contract, or anything from her school, about what she is entitled to regarding public holidays which fall on her days off (e.g. Bank Holidays). Does anyone have experience of what she should expect? 

In my mind she should be entitled to either time off in-lieu, or full pay for the bank holiday days but I can't seem to find any information about this (my wife is of the opinion that it doesn't really matter as she won't be working anyway, but its worth a few hundred quid over the year). The problem seems to be muddied by the fact that teachers get more than the statutory holiday anyway but I don't see why she should miss out on these Bank Holidays (particularly as, for example, if her day off was a Wednesday she would then still get all Bank Holiday Mondays as a day off). I also can't see why if a Bank Holiday falls during a school holiday (when no teachers are working) that she shouldn't get some form of Bank Holiday payment but I really have no idea how this should work.

Does anyone have any experience of this, or know the best place to start looking? My wife is stressed enough about returning to work after the summer so I'm trying to do the leg work for her to make sure she gets what she's due. 

Thanks in advance 

JGB1955

If your wife is working in a state school she will be contracted for 195 days (39 weeks) X 0.8, including in service days. As long as she works those days she is due no more. 

Savvy_Sue

I do not know how teaching contracts work. 

However, where I work, if you didn't work on Mondays you would have slightly more days on which you could choose to take leave. You wouldn't be paid any more, and you wouldn't have any more days leave pro rata to someone working a five day week. And actually, in a previous job, some of my part-time colleagues who DID normally work on Mondays would choose to 'make up' the bank holidays on a different day, to increase the number of full weeks they could take as leave. 

My understanding is that teachers don't have any choice at all about which days they take leave on - or at least, there are a number of days on which they absolutely CANNOT take leave, namely any day which falls in term time. 

So as long as your wife is being paid 4/5ths of what a full-time teacher on the same salary point would be paid, I think she is being fairly paid.