Plan to prevent retired teachers taking sub work

SCHOOLS face tough laws preventing them from giving work to retired teachers as it has emerged that more than 1,200 pensioners have been brought into classes as substitutes, instead of unemployed graduates, since September.

More than 140 former teachers have worked at least 50 days in second-level schools — they are among 300-plus former teachers used as substitutes in the current school year.

At primary level, 69 retirees have been employed for 40 days or more, out of nearly 1,000 who have so far been paid for subbing since September .