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[quote=APAULT,279469]If you are a teacher and have a fairly standard contract, you will have National Holidays off.  in my college we are being told we must teach the 'lost' classes on other days.  This does not constitute the holidays provided for in the contract and by legislation.  In my college we are abnout to fight this.  In my case I do not teach the full number of hours provided in the contract and in all fairness think I might have to give in.  If they want you to work, you should be paid overtime as provided in the contract.

What was even worse in my college is that no-one has even had the decency to notify us that there is a holiday today, 4th April.  If the students had not mentioned it yesterday, we would have headed for classes wondering where all the students had gone!  So as far as I am concerned we attended for duty as required.

I strongly recommend we all fight these issues.  For too long we have compromised in the interests of harmonios relations.  We are teachers, maybe we have also to teach the employers that contracts involve TWO parties and about developing proper staff relationships.[/quote]

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