NUT comment on Work Your Proper Hours Day
Commenting on the TUC analysis of the amount of unpaid overtime being undertaken by various professions, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers’ union, said:
“Teachers are yet again the profession which is working the most unpaid overtime. Many classroom teachers, heads and deputies work in excess of 50 hours a week. Excessively long hours continue to take their toll on teachers’ health and their lives outside work.
“Much of this additional working time is spent on tasks generated by unnecessary bureaucratic procedures, not on the actual job of teaching children and young people. An NUT survey on workload identified ‘less burdensome planning and assessment’ as the top measure which would reduce teachers’ work. In too many schools planning and assessment requirements have become formulaic burdens that are the bane of teachers’ lives.
“Pay freezes, excessive workload and continual inspection and criticism from Government at every turn will make recruitment into the teaching profession increasingly difficult.”
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