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[Azile]

I hear of this "no pay for holidays" being instituted more and more, especially at Universities. Our Uni did this about two years ago. Why? Because FT hired for Sept to Sept. July 15 holiday comes. They resign and claim they will do another year. They get paid over the summer. They never come back. If the teacher had not resigned and claimed to be coming back for another year, they would not have received this pay. The Uni just got screwed out of 6 weeks of pay. So rather than holding the summer pay until september, they simply stopped paying during holidays. However, they took the annual salary and recalculated it so that everyone was now earning a higher monthly salary to remain competitive with the schools paying year round. So if you used to get 9k a month for 12 months, you would be now getting 10k a month for the period you are working and no pay during the holidays. It was a pretty fair solution for both the teachers and the school. And there is no incentive to lie and say you are coming back when you are not as there is no longer that financial incentive to do this.

It would not surprise me to see more and more schools doing it this way. Because when they try other ways, like holding your summer pay etc, it leaves a bad feeling between you and the school.

[Shroob]