Teachers to be paid full pay whilst schools closed - Rest of us €305 pw

If the government doesn't pay their own employees how can they expect other employers to consider following suit. Simply put the more security an employee is guaranteed the less likely they will go to work when sick.

Scammell wrote: »

Bloody whingeing teachers are to be paid whilst schools closed. The rest of us in the real world will have to do with €305 for two weeks and then take our chances where we will be unable to work due to Covid 19.

Damn unfair again. And the teachers have the gall to continuously moan and whinge!!

From..... https://www.into.ie/app/uploads/2020/03/cl0020_2020.pdf

6. School Closure

6.1 If following HSE advice, a school is closed as a result of Covid-19, the Paymaster will continue to pay the employees.

Teachers are still expected to work. Keep your manufactured outrage to yourself.

If teachers are working, well they should be paid, of course.

However, judging by my light reading on the Teacher forum on here, many teachers are not being that cooperative and finding problems to teaching remotely where non usually exists, as a way to make excuses and drive a wedge.

Teachers have a bad rep because they are in it for themselves, in most cases. They have some of the most militant unions in the state, yet you would swear they are paid slave labour wages.

Maybe they can take two weeks off, but pay it back in the summer, but as if that will happen. The ASTI will be out marching for a pay rise before this thing is over.

Zagreb Ebnem Zloty Diev wrote: »

LOL. Try telling the unions to do that.

As for the people saying "retrain and become a teacher" .. you do realise that that would need two years off work and an annual fee of €4,000 per anum on top of that .. plus expenses.

You cannot deny it. Teachers have a sweet deal.
Unionised or not, the private sector workers could never get a deal like that.
Their pay peaks at €69,000 per anum for what is a relatively easy job and their pension would be in the mid 30's k for a teacher with 40 years service. To get a pension like that a private sector worker would have to be on serious money contibuting most of their salay to their pension.

Define relatively easy there. There are hundreds of well paid jobs that I would consider relatively easy but other wouldn't and vice versa. I always thought teachers had an easy job until I lived with some, far harder than I imagined. Definitely not a job I'd like to move into.

That's just not true, to get a pension of 35k, you would not need to contribute "most of your salary". A modest contribution into a pension fund will get you there. Their pension contribution is built into their salary as well as the direct contribution introduced during the recession. It seems like you've some vendetta against teachers which is not based in fact.

I'm not a teacher btw.

Teachers pay not great in my opinion, 69000most you can earn somebody mentioned, **** that.

any bloody chance they can get , time off. Closing the schools for elections up until recently was a farce! More childcare required for workers, as if they need this!

Teaching is weird.

You'll never be rich but you'll never be poor and the security is amazing.

Not sure why people hate on it so much though.

Presumably those of us working from home will still be paid our usual wage?

A teacher retiring on €70k will get a tax free lump sum of €105k + an annual salary of €35k
This is worth approx. €1m if funded privately.