Make your mind up, dearie
Dec. 7th, 2017 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusLast summer we got a new head of service, after our old one retired, and found out at the (mandatory) start of year meetings that she Has Plans. Firstly, that she wanted us to have a staff conference that everyone was going to need to attend and that would 'bring us together' and also help point us in the direction of getting a better grade next time we get inspected.
Because the timetables for the academic year had already been organised, when she chose a date for said conference (one day next week), there was some annoyance as that meant those classes had to be cancelled and then added in at the end of the spring or summer terms. We always try and leave some leeway just in case of bad weather or teacher sickness that can't be covered, so folks get the teaching hours they've paid for when they enrol on a course and everyone's happy.
What hasn't been mentioned, however, is whether teachers (most of whom work part-time and get paid on the basis of teaching so many hours over the year) would get paid for attending the staff conference since it's not part of their assigned hours any more. When we attend other meetings that are mandatory, we get paid, but there has been an ominous silence over whether this will also be the case for the staff conference. Not helped, of course, by the fact that the managers and admin staff will all get paid because they work regular hours over the year. There's been a few universal emails flying around about this but none of them have been responded to, which makes uscynics realists think they were planning to try it on...
Anyway, it's all turned out to be moot, since the staff conference has now been postponed supposedly as a result of the recent death of one of the management team. It's supposed to be next term some time, when we'll have the same issue yet again if classes are cancelled and added on later. I wasn't teaching anyway next week, it's all exams for my folks, but I bet some people are really vexed by all of this!
Because the timetables for the academic year had already been organised, when she chose a date for said conference (one day next week), there was some annoyance as that meant those classes had to be cancelled and then added in at the end of the spring or summer terms. We always try and leave some leeway just in case of bad weather or teacher sickness that can't be covered, so folks get the teaching hours they've paid for when they enrol on a course and everyone's happy.
What hasn't been mentioned, however, is whether teachers (most of whom work part-time and get paid on the basis of teaching so many hours over the year) would get paid for attending the staff conference since it's not part of their assigned hours any more. When we attend other meetings that are mandatory, we get paid, but there has been an ominous silence over whether this will also be the case for the staff conference. Not helped, of course, by the fact that the managers and admin staff will all get paid because they work regular hours over the year. There's been a few universal emails flying around about this but none of them have been responded to, which makes us
Anyway, it's all turned out to be moot, since the staff conference has now been postponed supposedly as a result of the recent death of one of the management team. It's supposed to be next term some time, when we'll have the same issue yet again if classes are cancelled and added on later. I wasn't teaching anyway next week, it's all exams for my folks, but I bet some people are really vexed by all of this!
