Plymouth people told to "Work Your Proper Hours" on March 1

“@soultoucher - Touche!”

“@jaygeek1: Surely you mean: "Burn yourself out through stress and overwork and end up unemployed."”

“I'll be happy to respond to any rebuttal...”

“@foldart

As did I yours..”

“@soultoucher & TheRedeemer89 - I have read your comments with interest and amusement.”

“@foldart

Teachers' wages drop by half during holidays, and redeemer is correct when saying there is still a lot of work.
Lesson planning is hugely time-consuming and encompasses daily lessons reaching over a half-term for each class/year/set that you are teaching, often five seperate classes per day at differing levels, for five days at a time.
Marking can involve some 120 excercise books in which each written lesson has to be read and commented on if needed, it isn't just a matter of putting ticks and crosses everywhere as I suspect you believe, and that's just the lesson work, the homework books haven't been looked at yet.
School trips during holidays are also unpaid, and although great for the students and their parents who get a break from them, they can often be a slog and most teachers would rather be spending their half-pay holiday somewhere other than a field trip staying in a tent on the cold moors with 40 students in your charge.
I could go on, but ask you to think of the logistics please..from a six-week holiday, you'll be lucky if you achieve a full two weeks all for yourself.
Rent/utilities/council tax etc all remain at full price of course, and budgeting this on half-pay is work in itself.”

“This is a good idea and I hope many will get behind this campaign. I used to work in retail and it was expected that all full time staff had to work at least an extra 15 minutes without any pay. It doesn't sound like much but over the course of a year that amounts to over 50 hours of unpaid labour. The staff did not want to stay but many were too afraid to put their head above the parapet and say no to the bosses who are all too willing to exploit the workers who would go above and beyond their job's requirements.

Conscientiousness should be valued and rewarded not exploited and if workers work to rule for just one day it will show how much workers are taken for granted as many workers do more than is in outlined in their contract.

@Foldart Just because the children are on holiday it doesn't automatically follow that teaching staff get holiday too. That's the equivalent of saying the police aren't doing anything when they're not walking the beat or arresting somebody. There's teacher training, lesson plans, marking and events such as parent's evenings and extra-curricular activities to consider. On top of that, teaching is one of the lowest paid graduate professions.”

“So a teacher who gets about 6 weeks for summer hols, 2 weeks for Xmas, 2 weeks for Easter and another 2 weeks for bank holidays makes up for it by working the odd hour in the evenings? I don't think so.”

“MY cousin is a tutor at a local college and spends many hours outside work filling out paperwork, assessments and lesson plans and doesn`t get paid for it. Sadly although I agree with the principle behind this call for action the reality is that most businesses and especially public services depend heavily on their employees being concientious and wanting to do their best even though they don`t have the time allocated to do so during their working day.
Sadly if people were to stick to this regime many businesses and public organisations would fall into chaos as they have for years been taking advantage of employees who are willing to that little bit extra for the good of the job - sadly been exploited too much these days.”

“Plymouth people told to "Work Your Proper Hours" on March 1"

I misread this as meaning work during your proper hours on March 1 but not to do so for the rest of the year!”