3.1) Payment of Teachers
All teacher salaries are paid directly by the Department of Education and Skills.
Permanent Wholetime, Temporary Wholetime and Regular Part-time teachers, on appointment, are obliged to provide details of personal Bank Accounts into which salaries are paid on a fortnightly basis. Teachers must inform the DES salary section of any change in these details.
Payment for substitute teaching hours worked by Regular Part-time, Non-casual or Casual Part-time teachers is made through the DES On Line Claim System (OLCS). Each School is provided with a secure User Name and Password in order to access the system. An OLCS User Manual and a Quick Reference Manual have been circulated to all schools by the DES. Other additional documentation includes ‘General Guidelines for completion of Leave for the OLCS and OLCS ‘Office Notice’. It is important that operation and security procedures set out in the manuals are fully observed.
Newly employed part-time teachers, casual or non-casual, must supply relevant personal information and bank account details as required by the system before any claim for payment may be made on their behalf. Personal details required are:
· Name
· Date of Birth
· Address
· Phone Number
· PPS Number and/or Payroll No. if available
· Bank Account details
· Employment details/Hours already worked during the current claim/payment period
· Qualifications
School management is obliged to enter details on-line of substitute teaching hours worked every 2 weeks together with the details of teacher absences or other reasons which give rise to these hours.
Whenever Regular Part-time Teachers are engaged to teach hours over and above their regular hours (Maximum of combined hours 22 hours per week), payment must be claimed for these additional hours in the same way as for casual or non-casual part-time teachers.
Payment is made fortnightly as for Wholetime and Regular Part-time teachers.