Scrap the cutting of contracts to stop the person gaining permanent status. It’s unethical. If someone has been paid by a council for 23 months. They have passed all Learning Visits. Been told they are valued.
What? Sack them and give them their P45 only to re-employ them in 2 weeks’ time. It’s wrong. It’s not right. If anyone in HR or even an MSP or the Director of Education got sacked every 23 months there would be a huge outcry. But it’s ok for them to do it to us.
It’s not right to get sacked and not know how much money you have coming in (they wouldn’t tell me what I was getting for holiday pay). I didn’t know I’d be back so was in a panic about trying to find work.
I’ve been interviewed for perm posts. But not been able to get them as I’m so nervous.
There seems to be NO route to become perm supply. Which I don’t understand. Surely if I’m good enough to have been employed since 2021 why can’t they make me perm supply.
Do I need to get pregnant before my current fixed term contract gets cut and go on mat leave so they can’t give me my P45 to become perm????
That’s mental to even think like that.
This is answer 154 of the 269 written answers that teachers let us quote anonymously in the Scottish Teacher Employment Survey 2026. It answers the survey’s last question: what do the people who make decisions about teacher employment need to know?
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