Despite the crisis: Hamburg schools are resigning teachers before the summer holidays

Created: 07/13/2022, 16:56

By: Bona Hyun

Hamburg schools are giving notice of many temporary teachers before the summer holidays.

The bad thing is that they don't get a salary during the holidays either.

Hamburg – While many students in Hamburg are happily starting their long vacations, many teachers are trembling before the long summer slump.

Evaluations showed that many teachers are fired before the summer holidays and do not get paid for the holidays.

Because many representation contracts are concluded by most Hamburg school administrations for a limited period of time, as reported by 24hamburg.de.

Hamburg schools dismiss many teachers before the summer holidays - contracts expire before the holidays

290 educators had to register as unemployed during the past summer holidays.

This was the result of an evaluation by the Federal Employment Agency in November 2021 - an increase in those affected compared to 2017. The unemployment of teachers during the summer holidays was "very pronounced", according to the Federal Employment Agency - the school authorities still have a number for 2022 not before.

Teachers under the age of 35 are particularly affected.

Most teachers with fixed-term contracts in Hamburg will be laid off shortly before the summer holidays, as the

reports.

Hamburg schools often dismiss teachers before the summer break.

They will then not be paid for their holidays.

(Iconic image) © Daniel Karmann/dpa

Many parents are currently worried about whether the school will have to close again after the summer holidays because of Corona.

The Hamburg school authorities will make preparations for this in the coming weeks.

School Senator Ties Rabe thinks school closures are madness

and wants to prevent it from being closed again by any means necessary.

Should the school continue after the summer break, the cold classrooms due to the energy crisis in Hamburg will remain another concern for the school senator.

Dismissed teachers at Hamburg schools do not get paid for summer holidays

For many teachers, the employment contract expires at the start of the summer holidays.

After that, many teachers have to reckon with the fact that their employment will expire and they will not receive any money during the holidays.

Substitute teacher contracts in particular only run until the holidays.

If there is a school replacement requirement for a period of less than one year, the summer holidays cannot be included for legal reasons, it is said.

No lessons are given during the summer holidays, which is why nobody can be hired for the reason of teaching substitution, according to authority spokesman Peter Albrecht to the

.

Teachers with substitute contracts from June 1st to April 1st do not get paid for the summer holidays.

The schools are not obliged to conclude contracts that are as long as possible.

"This approach is unacceptable, especially in the case of the split illness replacements, but also for employees who repeatedly receive short-term contracts at different schools during the year," criticized Sven Quiring, chairman of the GEW (Education and Science Union) Hamburg.

Dismissed before the summer holidays – Hamburg schools often use fixed-term contracts for teachers

The Senate wants to work on employing teachers permanently.

As a rule, Hamburg schools conclude permanent contracts between teachers or pedagogical and therapeutic specialists.

In the case of a temporary vacancy, such as during parental leave, maternity leave or sick leave, school management often enter into temporary employment contracts.

Corona and the Ukraine war increased the number of temporary positions.

, the number of fixed-term contracts has increased by 80 percent

compared to 2021 .

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In order to help the students after the corona pandemic, an extension by another school year is now being discussed.

Perhaps this will enable one or the other teacher to switch to permanent employment.