Asking For Leave

NOTE: You are recommended to use Chrome to request leave on T+.

Teachers are allowed to request leave, and we prefer teachers to apply for 'Standard Leave' only. Other leave applications, depending on the application time and length, may be subject to penalties and warnings.

We are fully aware that teachers need breaks, or take leaves for emergency, but we wish you could take in consideration of their class schedules to avoid affecting your own students. Having a binding system means that students and their parents are very reliant on teachers they bind with.

Leave Application

With MORE than 2 hours’ notice should be applied on T+.

With LESS than 2 hours’ notice must be applied directly with the assigned or on-call Operator.

Must be made within the available date range. Any leave which is beyond the available date range must be applied for the following week.

The following details are specific to REGULAR teachers:

You must apply for leave 7 Days in advance.

A Standard Leave application (no penalties or warnings) would be classified as submitting the leave request for 7 days prior to lesson time.

Penalties and warnings may be applied to all other leave applications.

After the 7 Day deadline has passed;

Penalties and warnings may be applied to leave applications during this time.

During the first 6 weeks, teachers are NOT permitted to take leave or modify their schedule.

Leave Type Definitions

Standard Leave

Requesting leave for the following week BEFORE 7 days.

Emergency Leave

Requesting leave more than 2 hours of the scheduled lesson AFTER the standard leave deadline has expired.

AWOL

Absent Without Official Leave: Failing to attend a lesson and giving 2 hours or less notice to the Operator.

NCNS

No Call No Show: Failing to attend a lesson and not informing the Operator in advance of the scheduled start time

Failed to Clock in

Did not clock-in between 1hr and 30 minutes before for your 1st lesson or available slot (for replacement teachers). If you miss the 30 minute deadline, your booked lesson will be replaced, or your un-booked slot available for replacement lessons will be closed.

Other Lesson Related Attendance Definitions

Late

Starting the lesson between the start time and +3.00 minutes, but having completed 25mins lesson.

Example: 18:30.01 – 18:33.00 is classified as late. Even one second over is Late

Early leave

Leaving the lesson early, but having completed the full 25 minutes in the lesson.

Example: If you have your class from 17:59.00 to 18:24.59, this is classified as early leave, even if the class was a full 25 min one. Leaving before 18:25 is counted as early leave.

Incomplete lesson

Not completing a full 25-minute lesson and/or not completing the associated memo (or report) within the allotted time.

Not completing the course materials within the allotted time

Examples: Start time: 19:00 / Finish time: 19:24 is classified as an incomplete lesson.

Start time: 20:32 / Finish time: 20:55 is classified as an incomplete lesson. If you are late, please still try to complete the full 25 minutes, but do not be late for the next lesson.

As regular teachers will often teaching the same students every week, in consideration to provide students with a consistent learning experience, we ask teachers to keep to a fixed schedule. Leave and cancellations can give students a poor experience.

Leave days definition

Leave days include

Standard leave

Emergency leave

AWOL

Days affected by class cancellations will also be counted as leave days.

Leave days does not include

Incomplete lessons

Late starts

Leaving early

Landi holidays are also not included. We will send out Landi holiday notices in advance. No classes will be scheduled during Landi holidays and will not count as leave.

If there is a day where you are using the monthly override allowance to remove financial deductions and warnings, it will still count as a leave day and will be deducted from your leave days available.

If the total number of leave days exceeds the limit, $2.5 deducted per impacted student.

Leave Policy

12-month Contract

A maximum of 20 days in each contract period.

Short holidays are classed as 1-3 days and long holidays 4-14 days giving a total of 20 days unpaid leave (not including general holidays: the Spring Festival and Christmas period usually 7 days each).