Payment Dates
VECs - the last banking day of each month.
Community & Comprehensive Schools - fortnightly
Institutes of Technology - the last banking day of each month. Some ITs make fortnightly or bimonthly payments
Increments
In the case of teaching appointments to permanent, temporary and eligible part-time posts in all schools from the commencement of the 1996/97 school session onwards, the first increment of salary shall become payable to fully qualified teachers on the completion of one year’s satisfactory service from the date of taking up appointment. In Community and Comprehensive Schools the increment is payable on the anniversary date of taking up duty. In the case of VEC teachers appointed prior to the 1996/97 session, increments are payable after one year's satisfactory service from 1st October, 1st January, 1st April or 1st July which follows the date of taking up duty. This is then the date that decides the increment in succeeding years. If the appointment was taken up before the end of October, the incremental date is October 1st. Click here for further information on incremental credit.
In Institutes of Technology, increments are payable after one year’s service from 1st October, 1st January, 1st April or 1st July which follows the date of taking up duty. Appointments in October have the 1st October date.
At third level, progress up the incremental scale depends on a Lecturer being fully qualified.
Long Service Allowance
An annual allowance is payable to teachers who have been on the maximum of the common basic scale for at least ten years.
Night Work
In post-primary schools you may not be required to work after 6.00 p.m. You may, however, be employed in a part-time capacity to teach classes after 6.00 p.m. and be paid at the appropriate part-time rates. At 3rd level night work is regarded as a normal feature of College work. Timetabled hours after 6.00 p.m. are weighted by a factor of 1.5. Thus any lecturer who is timetabled as part of their hours after 6. 00 p.m. is credited with 1.5 hours for each hour timetabled.
Travelling Expenses
A teacher is entitled to a refund of travelling expenses actually and necessarily incurred in the performance of his/her duties. All teachers are entitled to travelling expenses equally and at the same agreed rates. In the case of public transport expenses shall normally be made at the standard rate. A teacher may be allowed to use his/her own car in the performance of his/her duties. The rates are adjusted from time to time. If you agree to take students in your own car and you are involved in an accident, then any claim taken by a student will be against your own motor insurance and will not involve any liability on the part of the School/College or Institute of Technology.