School secretaries industrial action set to go ahead from Friday

Industrial action by school secretaries seems set to go ahead from Friday after talks aimed at averting the dispute over pay ended unsuccessfully on Wednesday.

Fórsa said that school secretaries would engage in a brief one-hour work stoppage at the start of the school day on Friday. The union said the dispute was over the refusal by the Department of Education to address a two-tier pay system that left most school secretaries earning just €12,500 a year, with irregular, short-term contracts that forced them to sign on during the summer holidays and other school breaks.

The department said as it was not the employer of these staff, a survey was put in place to run until September 20 to gather information that was as accurate as possible.The department said that at the talks with the union on Wednesday it had re-stated that its claim would be fully considered once the current costings had been determined.

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