What is term-time working?
As the name suggests, term-time working is related to school patterns. Instead of having only four or six weeks of annual holidays, you have an extra seven to nine weeks of unpaid leave. This gives you the chance to work during term-time but to spend the holidays with any school-age children who are too young to be left to their own devices while you are out at work.
New regulations give fathers and mothers the right to up to 13 weeks of unpaid leave for any child born or adopted after 15 December 1999. Leave can be taken up until the child’s fifth birthday. But this new legislation isn’t related to term-time working schemes.
Not all employers are keen to set up term-time working schemes. They might be reluctant to find cover for the extra eight or so weeks of absence. But, in some jobs, with seasonal peaks and troughs, an employer might actually prefer you to take up a term-time working scheme.
Term-time work is not the same as seasonal work, though. Term-time workers have a permanent contract that continues throughout school holidays and during periods of paid and unpaid leave. This means that your employment rights and advantages are the same as for other employees.
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