Lack of full-time jobs ‘forces teachers out’

A lack of full-time work in the first few years of their careers will force more teachers to emigrate, union leaders have said.

With more than one-in-four of its second-level members’ working fewer than full hours, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland said the increased casualisation of the profession is making it harder to find full-time work and permanency.

While many teachers earn contracts of indefinite duration (CIDs) if they have been working at a school for a number of years, the union said this can often be on far less than the 22 timetabled teaching hours that earns full pay.