Other Conditions of Service
Accrual of Holiday when Acting Up
Last Updated: 03/07/2025Teachers accrue holiday for each day worked at the rate they are paid for that day times 0.2051, approximately one day for each 5 working days. If you act up into a promoted post then you are accruing future holiday at the rate for that post. When the acting up post ends a calculation will...
First Line Guidance
Last Updated: 03/07/2025This advice note tackles a FAQ relating to first line guidance and teachers being asked to undertake additional duties. It examines the contractual position (taken from the SNCT handbook) and offers advice on how to deal with unreasonable demands. Advice notes are not a suitable method of answering every query. If you have...
Conservation of Salary after Acting Up for more than 2 years
Last Updated: 03/07/2025In line with the SNCT anyone acting up into a post for more than 2 years is entitled to conservation of the salary for that post for 3 years starting from the date when you are asked to step down. Appropriate notice for the post should also be given to the jobholder indicating that the...
Industrial Action by Other Unions
Last Updated: 03/07/2025It is unlawful for any member of the SSTA to take industrial action where the SSTA has not given aspecific notice to the employer advising that action will be taken. Where members of another STUC-affiliated trade union are involved in industrial action, SSTA membersshould: Should the decision be taken to close the school and staff...
Management Time
Last Updated: 03/07/2025The following advice is provided for members regarding the provision and use of "Management Time". Download a PDF of this advice note
No Qualified PT
Last Updated: 03/07/2025The SSTA has noted with considerable concern the abolition of subject PT posts in many Scottish schools. Naturally, the duties of the former PTs may still require to be carried out. Contractually there is no doubt that these duties now belong to the "super-PTs" or member of senior management assigned the relevant duties and who...
Pay and Leave FAQs
Last Updated: 03/07/2025The SSTA regularly receives queries from teachers who have recently started in a promoted post or increased their hours and are surprised to find that their first pay following the additional work is less than expected. Frequently when querying this with payroll departments they receive an unsatisfactory answer along the lines that “any teacher who...
Role Former PT in Faculty Arrangements
Last Updated: 03/07/2025CHANGES TO THE CONDITIONS OF PTs WHO DO NOT RECEIVE OR ACCEPT OFFERS OF NEW FACULTY POSTS It remains the Association view that the management of subject departments in Scottish schools should be undertaken by PTs qualified in the relevant subject. Notwithstanding this, it is clear that PTs are now being appointed to manage subjects...
Time & Place Industrial Action by Others
Last Updated: 03/07/2025There have been suggestions from certain authorities that they are entitled to suspend the terms of the Handbook of Conditions in relation to "Time and Place" (T&P) on a day when pupils are not in school because of industrial action by non-teaching unions. The Association rejects this view and advises members as follows. The right...
The Right to Flexible Working
Last Updated: 03/07/2025Flexible Working Q1. Do all employees qualify from the arrangements? No, you must have at least 26 weeks of continuous service with the employer and you can only make one request in any 12 month period. Q2. What are the family circumstances which are taken into account? None - all employees are entitled to apply...
