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School support staff in Northern Ireland accept pay deal

In June, Nipsa and Unison encouraged their members to accept a new pay deal.

The deal, which affects about 20,000 staff, includes the regrading of staff, backdated to 1 April, and a one-off lump sum payment of £2,500 to every member of staff, coming in the next financial year.

It should also lead to pay rises for the staff, who are among the lowest paid in the education system with some currently earning less than £12 an hour.

Givan said the agreement would “provide relief to our school support staff who will appreciate the benefits of this significant investment in pay”.

“They deserve to be paid appropriately for the extremely important work they do,” he said.

Givan said the restructured pay scales would improve recruitment and retention of staff in the future.

Sinn Féin’s education spokesperson Pat Sheehan said it was “great news that unions and the Education Authority have reached an agreement to pay educational support staff a fair wage”.

Sheehan said the finance minister, Caoimhe Archibald, and the education minister “worked constructively to find a resolution”.


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