Advice Notes
The Association publishes several advice leaflets for the information of members. Any of these may be obtained by following the links below or by telephoning or e-mailing the Association.
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Once the leaflet(s) is/are received and further information is required, please do not hesitate to contact the office for advice.
Family Care
- Keeping in Touch days
- Maternity Leave and Pay
- Maternity Support Leave +
- The Right to Flexible Working
- Career Break
Pensions and Benefits
- Winding Down
- Phased Retirement
- Actuarially Reduced Pension
- Additional Pension
- Pensions For New Entrants
- Taking Additional Lump Sum (Commutation)
- The Association has produced a series of advice leaflets regarding the revision to teachers’ pensions which are available here.
Working Time Agreement
- Working Time Agreements
- 35 Hour Working Week
- 35 Hour Week – The Teacher Contract
- Format of a Working Time Agreement
- SNC – Model Constitution
- Collegiate Time
- Pupil Contact Time in Weeks Containing Holidays
- Working out of School
Job Sizing
Part-timers and temporary Teachers
- Temporary Teachers
- Fixed Term Contracts
- Transfer from Temporary Status
- Temporary Promoted Appointments
Probationers
- New Entrants to Teaching
- Pensions for New Entrants
- Probationer Contact Time
- Your First Days in School
- Probationers Contract of Employment
- Working with and Managing Pupil Support Auxiliaries
Miscellaneous
- Strike Action – FAQs
- School Inspections
- School Closures
- Classroom Observation
- Handling Harassment
- Job-Share Working
- Claiming tax back on professional subs
- Working with and Managing Pupil Support Auxiliaries
- Surplus Transfer of Teachers
Other Conditions of Service
- First Line Guidance
- Management Time
- No Qualified PT
- Role Former PT in Faculty Arrangements
- Time & Place Industrial Action by Others
For School Reps
- Accompanying a Member
- Becoming a School Representative
- Post of School Representative
- SSTA Guidance – Trade Union Facilities
Curriculum for Excellence
- Contractual Implications of Curriculum for Excellence
- Curriculum Development and Curriculum for Excellence