The salary rates will apply only to members of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) and the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI).
The Department of Education has outlined the details of revised salary restoration for newer entrants to the teaching profession.
Public servants, including teachers, recruited after that date were affected by a 10% reduction in salary.
Teachers recruited post-2011 remain on a lower scale to those who had been recruited prior to the Lansdowne Road agreement, with one teacher writing to JOE on Tuesday evening claiming that she will – over the course of her career – earn €100,000 less than the person working in the next classroom to her.
“It was post 2011 entrants that had the 10% cut and that’s what we still have now,” she wrote.
“The negotiations got the degree allowance back which brings post 2012s onto the 2011 scale but still 10% down as well as all other post-2011 workers in the public service.”
A new recruit will start on a salary of €32,806 per annum from January 1 of next year onwards, with the incremental scale rising to €62,905 per annum under the revised rates. The pay rates for teachers recruited before 2012 will remain unchanged.
The revised salary scale will not apply to members of the Associated Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI), who, unlike the INTO and the TUI, rejected the Lansdowne Road agreement.
The ASTI Central Executive Council (CEC) recently recommended that members reject proposals from the Department of Education and Skills following talks which concluded earlier this month.
They are demanding one common pay scale for all teachers, as opposed to the two separate pay scales that has been offered.
The union will continue to defer its industrial action pending the outcome of the ballot, which will take place in January 2017.
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