The PPTA said after changes to the CEA, a group of teachers, including Mr Gray, should have been put on a higher pay scale. Photo / Thinkstock
A teacher has taken a case to the Employment Relations Authority claiming underpayment, a claim that could affect 2000 teachers and cost the Ministry of Education $6.6 million in salary costs.
Cambridge High School teacher Robert Gray and the union representing him, the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) say changes
to the teachers' collective employment agreement (CEA), signed off by the Ministry of Education last year, have not been honoured.
The PPTA said after changes to the CEA, a group of teachers, including Mr Gray, should have been put on a higher pay scale.
It says the pay scales apply not only to teachers who became registered after 13 April last year, but also to those who were registered as at 13 April.
The PPTA said despite changes being signed off last year, Secretary for Education Lesley Longstone continued to apply terms relating to the previous collective employment agreement.
