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Originally Posted by Locke
Teacher salaries are for all 12 months, so they'd be being paid their normal salary as well as an honorarium for doing 'extra work' for marking the exams and to cover travel costs, etc.
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Ok but that doesn't answer the question, are they marking the papers during time they'd normally be teaching? Or does this marking go on during the summer vacation? (Yes it's been that long since school lol)?
If the marking goes on during summer vacation, then yeah being paid extra to come in sounds fair, if I take a week of my vacation time an then my boss asks me to come in I either get that vacation day some other time, or I get paid for it.
Since it doesn't sound like it's part of the contract then expecting them to come in to volunteer to do it isn't reasonable, enticing volunteers like this seems reasonable.
Reducing it to see if they can get away with it sounds reasonable too. If there were enough volunteers then that's fine. Sounds like they just overestimated how many would be willing to do it at $100, should have gone with $150.