Talks aim to settle ongoing teachers’ dispute over supervision

TALKS will take place in Dublin today aimed at ending a teachers’ dispute over supervision duties which could affect the country’s 450 secondary schools.

Members of the ASTI teachers’ union agreed less than a month ago to make themselves available for 37 hours of supervision and substitution per school year in return for a payment of 1,427. But the deal is under threat over how it is to work.

The ASTI insist that if its members are available for 37 hours in the school year for supervision duties but are not called upon in a particular week, they should still be paid for being on stand-by.