Created on: 10 Jul 2025 | Last modified: 23 Sep 2026
*Please note this page is still under construction*
You can find out more about the most recent Pay Award for 2025-2027 on the City of Edinburgh Council website HERE.
The HR Payslip Guide can be found on the Orb as well as at this link.
MyHR can be accessed at this link.
Yes your expeirence in teaching and related fields may qualify you for additional salary points. Please see the Salary Placement Agreement on our LNCT Agreement page.
How to Request a Salary Assessment:
The Halo form should be completed by the employee requesting a salary assessment. This form is for teachers on the Main Grade Scale who have full registration with the GTCS. Teaching colleagues in promoted posts are job sized and should speak to their Head Teacher or Manager.
Click on askHR, then Pay, hours and claims
Click on Salary assessment – Teachers
Upload the required evidence (as outlined below).
CEC is aiming is to deliver the 2025/2026 pay award in December. The payslip in December will reflect an uplift in the colleague’s salary and other payments for December, including backpay for the four months between August and November. The backpay calculation will include Kit Days, however, this might not be obvious on a colleague’s payslip as it will just be recorded as Retroactive, rather than being broken down into separate sections.
More information can be found on the Learning and teaching pay award page, including a guide and an example payslip. If, once you have read that section, you are still unclear if your back pay has been processed correctly, you should raise a ticket with AskHR. If you are still not happy, then contact the local office at edinburghla@eis.org.uk, including a copy of the pay slip, a copy of the conversation with HT (which must include the ticket number) and an explanation of what it is you feel is incorrect. We won't be able to check figures without that.
If you left employment with CEC after August, the link above explains what you need to do to ensure you get your back pay.
If you do not work on your school's Inset days, you are required to do a pro-rata number of Inset days. You can use the calculator to determine the exact number (or partial number) you need to undertake. The current year’s calculator can be found on the Orb or on the Edinburgh EIS website under LNCT Agreements.
You should agree with your SLT in advance which of the days (or hours) you will attend based on what works best with your schedule and how many hours you need to complete for your part time contract.
Full time teachers cannot be required to do more than 22.5 hours of class contact in a week. Class contact includes things like registration - and, indeed, any contractual time with pupils. it does not cover things that people have volunteered for, such as mentoring, or revision classes. And, of course, the 22.5 hours will be reducing soon, as a result of our campaigning on this issue. However, regardless of the specific number of hours, the principles outlined below will continue to hold.
Where the pupil day is longer than 22.5 hours, that difference is given to teachers as non-contact time (variously referred to as McCrone time, NCCT, RCCT etc). However, SNCT does not specify any particular entitlement to non-contact - it arises because of the difference between teacher contact time and pupil lesson time. Were pupils only to be in lessons for 22.5 hours, there would be no requirement on a school to provide non-contact time.
Advice to members is not to try to calculate whether they are getting the appropriate non-contact time, but to check they are not exceeding their maximum non-contact time.
Part time members of staff should undertake the following simple calculation:
Find your FTE (if anyone is unclear about their FTE, they should check MyHR, since it should be based on what proportion of a full time salary they are being paid)
Simply multiply your FTE by 22.5 hours - this will give your maximum allowed class contact time, and you should not be exceeding this.
P1&2 teachers will be aware that it is long-standing practice in CEC (and a few other local authorities) that the P1&2 pupils are only in class for 22.5 hours. Thus, following the principles above, there is currently no contractual requirement to build NCCT into their timetables. However, the following should be noted:
If teachers are required to do things with pupils that are outwith the envelope of a 22.5 hour pupil day (e.g. be in their room early to greet pupils, or take them out into the playground at the end of the day to be collected) then the EIS would consider that this is pupil contact, and the teacher should be released at some point during the pupil day to bring them back down to the contractual maximum of 22.5 hours.
Part time P1&2 pupils should undertake the same calculation as is outlined above to determine the maximum time that they can be required to be with pupils.
If any member feels they are being required to go over 22.5 hours contact time (or the pro rata equivalent for part time teachers), they should first raise this with their line manager and/or their school rep. If that does not produce a satisfactory solution, they can contact the local office for support.
If you’re disabled or have a physical or mental health condition that makes it hard for you to do your job, you can:
· talk to your employer about changes they must make in your workplace;
· get extra help from Access to Work, including mental health support.
More information can be found here.
Information about all Insurances can be found here.
