Labour Court recommends NEWB seek sanction to recognise former teacher’s service

The Labour Court recommended that the National Educational Welfare Board (Newb) submit an individual case to the Department seeking approval to recognise a worker’s previous teaching service for incremental credit when setting her starting salary. The recommendation was dated 8 May 2006. The worker, an Education Welfare Officer, had previously worked as a primary school teacher. The union challenged the Board’s refusal to count that experience on her salary scale. The Court noted that the Board’s policy did not reckon her private-sector service and that its position on incremental credit had made her continued employment financially untenable.