European court to rule on teacher pay dispute

Primary teachers are to have the case for equal pay for post-2010 members of the profession considered by the European Court of Justice.

In proceedings that have not been made public until now, two members of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) claim that they suffered indirect age discrimination by being put on lower salary scales than longer-serving colleagues.

The approach is being taken entirely separately from the industrial relations measures being upgraded after this week’s decision by all three teacher union conferences to ballot members on possible strikes.