Study Leave & Your Employer

bamboozle said:

Its not a sob story, far from it, point I was making was Trainee Accountants (in practice) get lots of study leave and fees paid for (assuming they pass) the flip side of this is that they get paid low salaries until they qualify.

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Exactly, Mrs Boaber is currently in her first year with one of the "big 4". Her lectures, course material & exams are paid for by the firm, and she gets 2 months study leave before her Prof 3s.

Downside - miserable salary, no pension contributions from employer etc... so yours truely gets stuck with paying the bills etc. Luckily I can see the bigger picture and it will be all worth it in the end (assuming she passes!!)

As for my own employer, if the exams are related to the job, then they will pay the fees & give 1.5 days per exam. If you leave within 12 months they reclaim the fees & days back off you.

No I don't thank my private sector friends for my wages - I work harder than a lot of them and pay taxes too.

In relation to paying for course my employer pays up fromt to the college and then deduct from my wages over a period of time. If I pass I claim back my 50% if I don't pass I can't claim.

Thanks for all the input. It's obviously a sore point with a lot of people.
I don't know where I stand because when I first told my boss I was doing the exams, they were all for paying and cutting my hours to give me time to study.

Then when it came to paying I was given the elbow and took out a personal loan. And now I've paid for them, the boss has again become interested in getting me to work for them when I qualify.

So I'm addled now regards study leave and because 3 of our revision days fall on a work day, I'll need a total of 13 days leave.

Have you sat down and had a conversation about this with your boss?
Why not ask for the time off with half of it paid and half unpaid? Just remember that in the context of the rest of your career 13 days unpaid leave or having bugger all holidays for one year is no big deal so don’t make it into one no matter how unfair you think you are being treated.

Having been thru it myself the surest way to pass the exams is to get as much study leave as possible (1 or 2 days leave per exam is not enough & u don’t want to fail exams & then become disinterested) even if it requires taking a paycut I’d try get at least 1 weeks leave per exam, in a very strange way the less money you have while you’re studying the better cause you wont be able to afford to go away with mates for weekends or out on the booze at the weekend thus freeing up time for study & lectures.
I know plenty of folk working in banks getting 1 or 2 days leave per exam and they’ve had to repeat an awful lot especially at the final stage.

Purple, It won't really bother me this year as I'm carrying days from last year but I have another 2 yrs in the course that will need the same leave. I think I'll just have to take unpaid leave if all comes to all.
Oh well......

I get 5 days. It's great.

I'm actually on study leave now, but I'm just surfing the web... exam on Tuesday, gotta get it together...!

You see flax if your not using your days off efficiently, it's not a good idea to say it here 'cos I'm trying to get these days

Bamboozle you make a good point, I think I would consider that alright. I don't want to spend the rest of my life getting the exams.