Teachers' pay cut by up to 19%, says INTO [IrishTimes.com]
- Published: 04 January 2010
TEACHERS’ take-home pay has been cut by up to 19 per cent in the past year, the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) claimed yesterday.
The union, which will soon announce plans to combat the cuts, said the full extent of pay cuts would be felt by more than 50,000 teachers when schools reopen this week. It claimed the cuts in take-home pay ranged from 15.2 per cent for a teacher just out of training to nearly 19 per cent for a principal at the top of the scale.
By comparison, it claimed the salary of a worker in the private sector, which was unaffected by the pension levy and public sector pay cut, will have fallen by 4 per cent.
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