Retiring teachers will be allowed to finish school year [Independent.ie]
- Published: 22 October 2011
TEACHERS who quit their jobs to take early retirement in February will be allowed to go back to school to take their Leaving and Junior cert classes through the rest of the school year.
But the teachers who retire early and then return will not go back into the classroom at their old salary -- instead, they will work at the lower starting rate introduced for new staff last January as part of government cutbacks.
Education Minister Ruairi Quinn is relaxing the early retirement rules to minimise disruption to students doing the state exams in June in advance of the flood of teachers expected to apply for the retirement package.
Second-level school managers and principals had warned of the potential for disruption if significant numbers of teachers retired at the end of February and had sought an extension of the scheme beyond February.
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