Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 November 2016
217. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Education and Skills if non-union teachers on short-term contracts who are available for work will be paid by his Department for the period their schools are closed due to industrial action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34601/16]
View answerCircular letter 0070-2016, issued by my Department sets out the procedures to be followed by schools in respect of the one day work stoppages. It is a matter for the management of each school to make appropriate arrangements to record the attendance or absence of all Department-paid teaching and non-teaching staff employed by the school.
Circular letter 0071-2016 sets out the procedures to be followed by schools where they closed as a result of the withdrawal from S&S duties by ASTI members on Monday 7 November 2016. Where schools were closed to students as a result of the withdrawal from S&S duties by ASTI members, those teachers who completed and returned the form in the appendix to circular 0071/2016 will be paid as normal for the closure. Absences by teachers for authorised leave should again be recorded by school management in the normal way. Those teachers who did not submit a completed form under circular letter 0071/2016 will not be paid for the closure.
In general, it would be expected that non-union teachers would have completed the form marking themselves as available for all duties and therefore would be paid for the days in question.
