Hi Joanne

TTO staff are "part-timers" and should not receive less than the pro-rated equivalent of AYR staff. What is full time is determined by the establishment, but if a person works less than this when their hours are split across the whole year they effectively work part of what a "full-timer" would.

In my MAT the AYR staff actually receive less entitlement of certain types of leave, and a lot of the leave (other than holiday) is not pro rated for them e.g. TTO staff are entitled to additional paid time off for religious days whereas a AYR staff have to use their annual leave, and both AYR and TTO staff are entitled to 5 days paid dependants leave per academic year.

I agree with Kimberly. TTO workers are effectively part-time workers and protected by the Part Time Working legislation from being treated less favourably than full time workers.

In reply to Anna:

As far as I know in employment law it is not at all clear or certain whether term time only staff are part timers - even Unison say so:

www.unison.org.uk/.../On-line-Catalogue209253.pdf

That said, I personally think TTO is a misleading confusing and potentially unfair nonsense and have to agree with most of Unison’s stance about it