The Teachers' Union of Ireland TUI - Your Union

The Teachers’ Union of
       Ireland
  TUI – Your Union

What is the TUI?

   The TUI is a trade union for teachers and
    lecturers, dedicated to the care of members
    and the development of the education
    profession.

   It is a community of 19,000 professional
    educators.

Democratic Structure of TUI

   On joining the TUI you will become a member
    of your local branch.

   As a member you can express your views at
    school, branch and national levels as
    appropriate.

Who are TUI members?

   Teachers in Schools/Community Colleges governed by
    the ETB
   Teachers in Community & Comprehensive (C&C)
    Schools and Voluntary Secondary Schools
   Teachers in Further Education Colleges
   Lecturers in Institutes of Technology and DIT
   Other Grades in Further Education and Training i.e.
    ALO, CEF, AEO etc.

Why Join TUI?
   Advice and Representation
    We negotiate with employers and the DES
       All contracts, permanent and non-permanent
       Incremental credit, progression, promotion etc.
       Codes of Practice in the workplace

    We represent teachers, individually and
    collectively, to employers and to external bodies,
    when difficulties arise in their professional
    capacity
    We offer advice and guidance on employment issues

Why Join TUI?
   Representation on Educational Issues
       We represent teachers’ and lecturers’ professional on all
        relevant local and national education bodies.
       We represent members’ views in the media.

   We provide group benefits, which includes:
       Car, house and travel insurance

       Health Insurance

       Salary protection

Join TUI today
   Fill out and return your student application form today

   You will become a student member of TUI from today (no
    fee applicable)

   Apply through your TUI School Rep or on-line at
    www.tui.ie when you take up your first paid teaching post

   €1 membership for first year of teaching

   Like us on Facebook

   Follow us on Twitter (@TUIunion)

   TUI APP

Contractual Issues

Who exactly is my employer?
   Your employer is an Education and Training Board (ETB) or, in
    the case of teachers in Community and Comprehensive
    schools and Voluntary Secondary Schools, the Board of
    Management
       In the case of an ETB, appointment is to the “scheme” which means
        that one may be assigned to any Vocational School or Community
        College within the particular ETB and may, in subsequent years, be
        transferred within the scheme (subject to the terms of the particular
        transfer agreement that is in place at the time)
   Community and Comprehensive (C&C) and Voluntary
    Secondary schools are stand-alone employers
   Teachers in ETBs are paid through the ETB and teachers in C
    & C schools are paid directly by the Department of Education
    and Skills

When will I receive my contract?
   The entitlement to a contract and the necessary
    minimum content of a contract are set out in the Terms
    of Employment (Information) Act, 1994.

   At a minimum, an employer must provide an employee
    with a written statement of the terms of her/his
    employment within two months of commencement of
    that employment.

When will I receive my contract?
   In some sectors there is not yet an agreed contract in
    written form.
   For example, there is none for teachers appointed to
    permanent whole-time positions in Community Schools.
    However, in such cases there is an unwritten (implied)
    contract that is enforceable and, of course, there is an
    entitlement to a written statement of the terms of the
    employment.

Permanent Contracts
   Permanent: You could be appointed to a permanent
    position (either on full hours or part-time hours). If your
    initial, day-one appointment is to a permanent position
    you will have a Permanent Whole-time or a
    Permanent Part-time contract.

   Appointment to permanent positions follows a national
    advertisement of the position and a formal selection
    process using agreed procedures.

Permanent Contracts
   Under the TUI/DES Agreement, May 2016., employers
    were reminded that they can make initial appointments
    on a permanent basis within the approved teacher
    allocation.

   The Department of Education and Skills issued Circular
    Letter 59/2016 on 31st August 2016 confirming this to be
    the case.
       Mandatory sequence

Contract of Indefinite Duration
   When, as a teacher, you have completed in excess of two
    years of continuous service with the employer under two
    or more Fixed Term contracts and if that service satisfies
    the terms of the relevant Circular Letters, you become
    entitled to a Contract of Indefinite Duration
    (commonly referred to as a CID).
   A CID is a permanent contract, either whole-time or
    part-time.
   This qualifying period of in excess of two years was
    secured by the Union through the Expert Group
    established under the Haddington Road Agreement.

Contract of Indefinite Duration
   The TUI also secured the removal of
      covering for career breaks
     covering for a secondments
     covering for someone assigned to the NBSS
     covering for someone assigned to a HSCL position
    from the list of valid reasons (known as “objective grounds”) for
    denying the award of permanence by way of a CID.

Fixed-Term Contract
   If you are appointed to a temporary, time-limited position
    you will have a Fixed-Term contract. This is not a
    permanent contract. It has a specified termination or end-
    date.

   An initial fixed-term contract tends to be for one year. A
    teacher is notified that her/his employment is to
    terminate at the end-date of the fixed term contract and
    that the position will be advertised. A selection and
    interview process follows through which the teacher may,
    if successful, be re-engaged for a second year under a new
    fixed term contract.

Fixed-Term Contract
   After the second year of fixed-term service a Contract of
    Indefinite Duration will be awarded subject to certain
    criteria being met, including continuation of the service
    into a third successive year.

   Appointment to a fixed-term position follows national
    advertisement and a formal selection process using
    agreed procedures (as for Permanent Appointments).

Fixed-Term (Specific Purpose)
Contract
   If you are employed on hours that are related to another
    member of staff’s approved leave, i.e. covering for a
    teacher on maternity leave or job share, you will be
    contracted on a fixed/specific purpose basis. When the
    teacher returns from leave the hours must return to the
    teacher and your contract ends.

   The service counts for qualification for a Contract of
    Indefinite Duration but covering for colleagues on some
    schemes of leave is considered an objective ground

I’m Part-Time.
What does that mean?
   A full-time teacher has a maximum class contact time of
    22 hours per week. A part-time teacher is any teacher
    who is contracted for less than twenty two hours per
    week.

   If your contract for the academic year issues by the first
    Monday following the mid-term break, and you have been
    appointed following a formal selection process, you are
    entitled to be paid on a pro-rata basis.

I’m Part-Time.
What does that mean?
   This means that you will be paid the appropriate
    proportion of the annual salary you would be on if you
    were full-time i.e. you will be paid up to the 31st of the
    following August. This has traditionally been called regular
    part-time work (RPT) or Pro-rata part-time (PRPT).

   To calculate the pay you will receive divide the number of
    hours for which you are employed by 22 and multiply by
    the point of the salary scale that you are on.

What is casual part-time?
   Some teachers are not contracted to work for an entire
    academic year.

   If a teacher is contracted after the first Monday following the
    mid-term break in a given year, or has an end date that occurs
    before the end of the academic year written into their
    contract, they are considered casual part-time teachers.
    Regular substitute teachers would also fall into this category.

   Such teachers are paid per hour worked rather than on a pro-
    rata basis.

What is casual part-time?
   In the event that you are teaching in an area that you are
    not considered sufficiently qualified for, you will receive
    the unqualified hourly rate. A qualified casual part-time
    teacher is paid the qualified hourly rate for each hour of
    teaching.

   After 150 hours at the casual rate in one school year, the
    teacher is paid a personal non-casual hourly rate based
    on a pro-rata fraction of a whole-time salary. To calculate
    this hourly rate divide the point on the salary scale that
    you would be on, were you whole-time, by 735 (the
    hours worked by a teacher in a school year).

Post automatically advertised
after Year 1
 All teachers on their first fixed-term contract
  with an employer will have their positions
  terminated at the end of year 1.
 The position will automatically be re-
  advertised and a new recruitment process
  undertaken. Therefore, the teacher will need to
  apply and interview for the position at the end
  of year 1.

I have a CID, how do I get more
hours?
   Firstly, there is an agreement that teachers that have a
    CID for 18 hours or more can request a move to 22
    hours and this will be honoured by the employer.
   To avail of this teachers must submit a H22 form, available
    from TUI.
   If you have a CID for less than 18 hours, a school will
    often allocate extra hours to you.
       In Circular Letter 59/16 and 49/2017 employers must follow a
        sequence to assist part-time CID holders in moving to whole-
        time work. Ensure that you write to your principal each year
        requesting more hours. A template letter can be provided
        to you by TUI.

I have a CID, how do I get more
hours?
   Where a qualified teacher holds a part-time CID and is
    working additional hours a separate fixed-term contract
    will be issued.

   The hours of this separate contract will be added to the
    CID after a continuous period of employment in excess
    of one year, if the hours continue to be viable, are
    available under the allocation, and are unrelated to
    maternity leave, sick leave or job share.

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