Photo: Richard Tindiller
The Education Ministry has roughly doubled the pay rise it is offering secondary teachers.
The ministry offered teachers at the top of the pay scale a pay rise of 2.5 percent followed by 2 percent a year later.
It also wants them to agree to increasing the number of days they can be called back to work outside of term time from 10 to 18 days a year, and give up the right to reimbursement for costs such as childcare and mileage.
The ministry and Public Service Commission made a similar offer to primary school teachers.
They had previously offered three 1 percent pay rises on top of annual progression that teachers make in the first seven to 10 years of their career.
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