HC Deb 13 March 1989 vol 149 c56W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what steps he has taken to advise unemployment benefit offices of the decision R(U)5/88: requalification for UB—hours of work of school teachers; and what steps he proposes to take to identify other part-time workers whose contract of employment requires hours of service or availability that are not directly remunerated.

Mr. Lee

All unemployment benefit offices were given written notice of the implications of R(U)5/88 (previously CU/009/1986) in March 1988. These instructions were subsequently updated in October 1988 and continue to apply.

The decision specifically applied to part-time teachers and their contractual arrangements. It has no implications for other groups of part-time workers. There are no plans at present to change the rules applying to other groups.

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