19 Apr 2022

Hundreds of teachers underpaid and fix delayed

From Morning Report, 6:44 am on 19 April 2022

Hundreds - possibly thousands - of new teachers are being underpaid by up to $300 a week.

This woman says she is being paid about $300 dollars a week less than she should be.

It happens at the start of every year when new teachers or their schools fail to provide correct paper work to the Education Ministry but it's now taking months to fix because of Covid-19.

The Secondary Principals Association president Vaughan Couillault says this year's delays are so bad it has had to raise the problem with the ministry.

Post Primary Teachers Association president Melanie Webber spoke to Corin Dann.