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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Average of 10-12 hours of overtime for teachers? That means 10-11.5 hour workdays. This can happen on occasion (and has to be granted by an overseeing organization if it's for a longer time), but it's certainly not unpaid. That's illegal in the Netherlands. If a company is structurally causing employees to work 10+ hours extra a week without paying extra (excep for the special high level positions as mentioned), they'll be in trouble at some point.
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I'm not sure what the situation is like in the UK, which is where that data is from. From what I've seen, from within Canada, many schools do no provide adequate planning and assessment resources. Teachers are expected to make up the difference, which is where a lot of that unpaid overtime comes from. To make life even more fun, teachers often have to purchase classroom resources out of pocket. That includes books and consumables for student use. Here is an article relating to those expenses in the U.S.:
http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/...materials.aspx
I've seen figures more than double that within Canada. I'll try to dig up the reference later.
Legal? I was told by one government official that teachers don't have fixed hours of employment (even if the contracts stipulate such) because things like planning are not considered part of the job. That is true even if the teacher is told to do the planning and told how the planning must be done. Now it is entirely probable that they feeding misinformation, but how many workers have the time or the money to pursue such matters. How many workers can afford to risk their job to fight for their legal rights?