Tale of three teachers on same duties despite huge pay gap

The plight of recently qualified teachers on a different range of reduced pay scales to those of longer-serving colleagues was highlighted by delegates at the ASTI convention.

Sinead Corkery, a Dublin South Central representative on the union’s central executive, said: “We cannot put our students first when we put our teachers last”.

She put forward the case of three French teachers in a school, who all started within three years of each other, between the time before 2011 changes and after February 2012.