A teaching union is campaigning to stop supply agencies which make teachers sign away basic legal rights and entitlements.
The NASUWT claims that teachers are being asked to sign “dubious contracts” by some agencies which enables the firms to avoid tax and national insurance contributions.
Three-quarters of teachers at an event hosted by the union said they had been asked to sign contracts with “tax-avoiding umbrella companies” or face the risk of losing work.
General secretary Chris Keates said: “The practices of many off-shore umbrella companies are proving to be damaging to supply teachers who are being forced into signing dubious contracts which seek to deny them basic legal rights and entitlements and allow these agencies to dodge their tax and national insurance liabilities.
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