Part-time staff secure back-dated holiday pay


The latest group of workers to receive pay-outs for backdated holiday pay involves administrative staff, career advisors, science and art technicians, and library assistants working for Solihull Sixth Form College after the college miscalculated payment for public holidays. 


Public services union UNISON negotiated the claims on behalf of 14 members of staff employed on term-time contracts, arguing they had been treated less favourably than teachers and other colleagues employed full time. The college has now agreed to revise the formula used to calculate their holiday allowance and pay the correct rate, backdated six years. 


The success follows that of the thousands of low-paid term-time school workers across Greenwich in south east London (see Labour Research, December 2018, page 21).

https://www.unison.org.uk/news/press-release/2019/02/unison-wins-pay-low-paid-staff-solihull-sixth-form-college