{"id":19190,"date":"2019-08-06T21:40:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T21:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=19190"},"modified":"2019-08-06T21:40:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T21:40:25","slug":"part-time-teachers-holiday-pay-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/part-time-teachers-holiday-pay-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Part-time teachers\u2019 holiday pay will be calculated according to new rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>After a lengthy court process, a part-time music teacher from Bedford has managed to win her case against her employer, as her holiday pay hours were not calculated correctly.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lesley Brazel is a part-time faculty member at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedfordgirlsschool.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bedford Girls\u2019 School<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and she decided to start a legal battle against her employer after <\/span><b>she found out that instead of calculating her holiday pay based on average weekly wage,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the school actually calculated her holiday salary as a percentage of her work hours for the whole year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The court ruled in favor of Ms. Brazel\u2019s request, as <\/span><b>according to the judge, the holiday pay of part-time teachers should be calculated based on the twelve-week school term,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> instead of on a yearly basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part-time teachers in the UK<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the ruling judge, <\/span><b>this decision will change the way all part-time teachers in the United Kingdom receive their holiday pay.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ms. Brazel first decided to turn to the court back in March and won an appeal, which obligated the school to pay her holiday hours based on average weekly pay. While the music teacher was dissatisfied with her salary, <\/span><b>she wanted to keep her job, and still teaches classes in the school.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> According to school representatives, Ms. Bazel is a valued member of the school\u2019 faculty and community. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schools should reward part-time teachers appropriately, as they are a significant part of the faculty members across the country. The student-teacher <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/low-student-teacher-ratio-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ratio<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a vital factor for the quality of education, <\/span><b>and governments and schools should do their best to keep their part-time staff in employment.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lengthy court process, a part-time music teacher from Bedford has managed to win her case against her employer, as her holiday pay hours were not calculated correctly.\u00a0 Lesley Brazel is a part-time faculty member at Bedford Girls\u2019 School, and she decided to start a legal battle against her employer after she found out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,23],"tags":[156,357,1073,1200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}