So, I’ve been asked a lot about teachers’ holidays, their rights and the convenio as of late. I suppose it’s that time of the year. And again I’m astounded at the lack of knowledge there is. Therefore, I’m going to share some facts about this issue. I’m not going to go too much into them, […]
[:en]Some of you have asked about this and I’ve finally found some free time to write and article it. The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare published an order last 1st of March (2018), order Orden ESS/214/2018, by which every self employed worker (a.k.a autónomo) must register in the Sistema RED. What is the RED system. RED stands for Sistema […]
[:en]Something tells me I am not going to gain new fans, amonst teachers, with this article. And the same will happen among academies, with the following ones, . Well, tough luck! The aim of this blog was never to become popular, but to provide as much information as possible. Knowledge is power and information clears […]
[:en]I’ve been very busy as of late. You all know work comes by waves in teaching, and we are in exam period. So I had to stop writing these articles for a while…. and now I have a huge list of them to publish. Some of them require of today’s system, so I it should […]
[:en]I’ve been asked this week by several teachers about the 7% or 15% deduction in the IRPF for self employed teachers (autónomos). And, by an unfortunate chance, we’ve had, for the second time in the history of our academy, an issue related to it. So, here comes another article about IRPF! The IRPF deduction. NB. I’m […]
[:en]I was answering to some teachers’ posts a few days ago, and realised how little do teachers know about the costs academies have to pay. “Why should I care?” You could ask. “It is their problem“. Well, for starters I’m a firm beleiver that most of the tension that exists at the moment between academies […]
[:en]I’ve been reading on various online groups about teachers who, after some time working for an academy, had gone to get their unemployment and discovered their employers had not declared the right number of hours they had worked. This is done to avoid paying taxes. It is obviously illegal and can have a huge impact […]
[:en]During our short explanation of the collective labour agreement that rules our sector, we mentioned a type of contract which we want to explain in detail: the Fijo Discontínuo contract. My advice for most teachers would be to make sure you are under this type of contract, and I will explain why. I will start […]
[:en]Following some post on Facebook groups about teachers and teacher’s salaries, I get the impression many don’t understand where these salaries come from. Some even think academies decide them on their own accord. Teacher’s salaries are legally regulated by a collective labour agreement. In the case of English Language Teachers the agreement is the Convenio Colectivo […]
[:en]Most teachers who start working with us, do not understand their payslip. Which is completely understandable, spaniards don’t understand theirs either. Let’s try to shed some light on this. Why? Because I think a lot of the tension between teachers and academies comes from lack of understanding (and from lack of explaining). Teachers should know their […]