A term time employment contract is a type of part-time working contract where an employee reduces their hours or takes time off during school holidays. A term time employment contract helps parents to deal with childcare in the school holidays, and employers to plan for absence cover. A term time employment contract
is particularly useful where an employer wish to retain a valued member staff or support staff return to work following parental leave.
Employees do have the right, under certain circumstances, to ask for flexible working arrangements; this can include a request to change to a term time employment contract.
Employees with a term time employment contract are not categorised as part-time workers as they don’t work a reduced-hour working week like a part-time employee.
Under a term time employment contract, pay is normally distributed equally in monthly payments, and adjustments made should an employee leave part way through a year.