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Help support IWW/Kaplan employment tribunal
The TEFL Workers’ Union (IWW) is taking Kaplan language school to tribunal for denying redundancy and furlough pay to fixed-term employees - and we’re asking for your help with legal fees.
Fixed-term contracts don't only undermine job security and employment rights, they deny workers redundancy pay.
This is exactly what happened last autumn when Kaplan language school made a huge percentage of their workforce redundant.
Kaplan employed their hourly-paid staff on rolling fixed-term contracts. As a result, the company claimed all hourly workers - some with decades of service - were entitled to only one week of notice pay and not a single penny of redundancy pay.
The good news is that, with union support, workers forced Kaplan to recognise the full length of service for employees with 4 or more years at the company.
But this still leaves staff with three years or less out of pocket. To right this injustice, six former and current Kaplan employees are taking the company to employment tribunal.
Kaplan's already had to largely concede to workers' demands, including moving all current staff on to permanent contracts. The purpose of this tribunal is to see this through to the end: get the proper redundancy pay for those with less than three years of service and to secure a ruling that forces Kaplan to stop using fixed-term contracts once and for all.
The tribunal is larger than just the workers involved. It’s about casualistion and insecurity across education and the wider UK economy. A win for the Kaplan workers is a blow against precarity for all workers.
It's for this reason the IWW has engaged legal support during the tribunal. We’re gonna win for these six workers. We’re gonna hold Kaplan to account. And we’re going to continue building worker power in the language teaching industry and across education.
Considering making a donation?
We welcome individual donations, but we're hoping other unions will be willing to pitch in.
We'd be honoured if one of the claimants could come to your next union meeting to discuss the case - and tell you about our fight for justice. We're especially interested to come to meetings of other IWW branches and to attend meetings of our fellow education unions.
If you're interested, you can reach the TEFL Workers' Union at [email redacted].uk
More information on the dispute can be found here:
https://iww.org.uk/news/tefl-workers-union-vs-kaplan/
Help support IWW/Kaplan employment tribunal
The TEFL Workers’ Union (IWW) is taking Kaplan language school to tribunal for denying redundancy and furlough pay to fixed-term employees - and we’re asking for your help with legal fees.
Fixed-term contracts don't only undermine job security and employment rights, they deny workers redundancy pay.
This is exactly what happened last autumn when Kaplan language school made a huge percentage of their workforce redundant.
Kaplan employed their hourly-paid staff on rolling fixed-term contracts. As a result, the company claimed all hourly workers - some with decades of service - were entitled to only one week of notice pay and not a single penny of redundancy pay.
The good news is that, with union support, workers forced Kaplan to recognise the full length of service for employees with 4 or more years at the company.
But this still leaves staff with three years or less out of pocket. To right this injustice, six former and current Kaplan employees are taking the company to employment tribunal.
Kaplan's already had to largely concede to workers' demands, including moving all current staff on to permanent contracts. The purpose of this tribunal is to see this through to the end: get the proper redundancy pay for those with less than three years of service and to secure a ruling that forces Kaplan to stop using fixed-term contracts once and for all.
The tribunal is larger than just the workers involved. It’s about casualistion and insecurity across education and the wider UK economy. A win for the Kaplan workers is a blow against precarity for all workers.
It's for this reason the IWW has engaged legal support during the tribunal. We’re gonna win for these six workers. We’re gonna hold Kaplan to account. And we’re going to continue building worker power in the language teaching industry and across education.
Considering making a donation?
We welcome individual donations, but we're hoping other unions will be willing to pitch in.
We'd be honoured if one of the claimants could come to your next union meeting to discuss the case - and tell you about our fight for justice. We're especially interested to come to meetings of other IWW branches and to attend meetings of our fellow education unions.
If you're interested, you can reach the TEFL Workers' Union at [email redacted].uk
More information on the dispute can be found here:
https://iww.org.uk/news/tefl-workers-union-vs-kaplan/
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Leanne Freeman
Organizer