WRC rejects teacher’s wage and holiday-pay complaints against Department of Education

The Workplace Relations Commission rejected two wage complaints brought by Oleksandra Dudurych against the Department of Education, finding she was paid the correct rate as an unqualified primary teacher and was not entitled to summer wages after resigning. Adjudication Officer Catherine Byrne’s decision was dated December 9, 2024. Dudurych said she expected the qualified primary teacher rate and claimed her contract entitled her to summer holiday pay. The Department’s position was that she was paid at the unqualified teacher rate; the officer found she would have received summer pay had she continued working through the academic year.