Labour law may disrupt teacher plans

THE adoption of law governing the right of part-time workers to secure jobs could disrupt plans to ensure all children are being taught by qualified teachers.

Under the 2003 Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act, workers on non-permanent contracts for three years can only be offered one more such contract.

After that, a person may be entitled to a long-term contract or permanency, except if there are objective grounds for not doing so.