The country's largest teacher trade union has disputed assurances given by the Minister for Education yesterday regarding teachers in the early stages of pregnancy who take pregnancy-related sick leave.
Yesterday, Norma Foley said that such a move, by an unvaccinated teacher or SNA, would "not impact going forward on any individual sick leave, should they need to draw that down in the future".
She said that pregnant teachers who take this leave will suffer no adverse consequences in terms of overall sick leave entitlement as a result.
School staff in the early stages of pregnancy are expected to return to classrooms to work with unvaccinated children in the coming days, even though they themselves are not allowed to avail of the Covid-19