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SUPPLY teachers are being exploited by their employers, denied pay and pensions equal to that of their full-time colleagues and subjected to poorer working conditions, education union NASUWT has revealed.
According to the union’s latest report, published today, two out of three supply teachers felt they were not being paid salaries reflecting their levels of expertise.
Many more were unaware of the agency workers’ directive, which entitles supply teachers to the same pay and conditions as their contracted colleagues after 12 weeks in one workplace.
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people