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Contractually maximum 45 hour working week for Primary School Teachers.

Submitted on Thursday 29th October 2015

Rejected on Friday 6th November 2015

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Contractually maximum 45 hour working week for Primary School Teachers.

Petition Details

NUT shows that Primary teachers regularly work 60 hours per week and that as a result 40% of new teachers leave within 5 years. Teaching Unions should renegotiate the Teacher Contract around a maximum of 45 hours. They and the DfE should then work out what can be achieved in 45 hours.

Additional Information

NUT research shows that workload continues to be a huge problem. Teachers are working anything up to 60 hours per week.
An NUT/YouGov survey shows that:
- 53% of teachers are thinking of leaving the teaching profession in the next two years.
- The top two reasons given for thinking of leaving the profession were “Volume of workload” (61%) and “Seeking better work/life balance” (57%).


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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Your petition seems to be calling for action from the teaching unions. We can only accept petitions which call for a specific action from the Government or Parliament.

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