This specifies that a tutorial is regarded as requiring one hour of preparation, one hour of class contact, and one hour of follow-up stuff, which includes up to 20 minutes of marking work done by members of your particular tutorial group, admin associated with your tute group (e.g. entering marks, working out an overall mark for tutorial attendance if the lecturer makes that part of the assessment scheme), and "informal consulting" with your students - e.g. if they keep you back for 5-10 minutes after their tutorial to answer questions.
If you do 2 or more tutorials in the same course (i.e. in the same week) then you do not get paid for the preparation the second and subsequent times.
In contrast, a 1-hour lab is defined as 1 hour of class contact, with no preparation or marking. If you find that you have to do significant amounts of preparation for your lab demonstration, then you should discuss the matter with your lecturer or class administrator.
If you are asked to do marking outside the lab period, or if you are a tutor and asked to do more than 20 minutes marking per hour of contact, then you can claim payment for this casual marking.
Often, of course, you will go for several weeks without any marking, and then when an assignment is due you will be asked to mark for more than 20 minutes in a particular week. This is legal - provided that the total marking time per session is less than 20 minutes times the number of tutorial contact hours that you work.
The details of the current rates are available from the HR (Human Resources) website.
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