Fifteen teachers were not paid at the end of last month and another 90 were not paid for their scale post positions.

Teachers began working at the beginning of last month to prepare for the new school year which started on September 8.

But more than 100 of them have yet to see the full wages owed for their work.

Bermuda Union of Teachers general secretary Mike Charles said the situation is another example of teachers not being treated properly by Government.

He said all the teachers were certified so there is no excuse for them to not have been paid.

"The people who didn't get paid for the scale post, that's unacceptable. These people had their scale posts last year. These aren't new people. All of them are teachers who are in the system.

"They have to be in the system to get scale posts. For some reason, they only got part of their pay. This is just another incident of the way that teachers are treated."

He continued: "In the beginning of September, schools weren't ready. Now you work a month and people aren't paid."

A statement from the Ministry of Education said: "The Department of Education takes this matter very seriously. We have worked out a resolution with the Accountant General's office to have these employees paid this week.

"In regards to the non-payment of scale post adjustments, these have been paid in October of every school year for the last few years.

"The Department of Education is aggressively working to rectify this issue so that our staff can be paid in September instead.

"We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused our staff and are endeavouring to ensure that it doesn't happen again in the future."

Mr. Charles said he didn't agree with Government saying scale post positions were usually paid in October.

"The statement that we have says the teachers didn't receive their pay because their posts were extended for an additional year.

"They never said it's 'as customary'. This extension, they knew about it since March or April when we suggested it. Why is this happening?"

He continued: "The people who didn't get paid at all were promised pay by today and we're hearing it will be this week. These people are expecting their money today.

"They can't tell their creditors anything as to when they can pay their car payments or their rent. This is incompetent.

"When people have payments to make and they plan their budgets and you look and you don't find the money in your bank account, it's not nice."

At the beginning of September, both Paget Primary and Clearwater Middle School both had delayed starts due to maintenance issues.

Clearwater had issues with asbestos in the ceiling of the kitchen while Paget Primary had water damage in some of the bathrooms.

Tests were done at Clearwater to make sure the air was safe before students were allowed to return two days later than the start of the school year.

Students at Paget Primary began a few hours later on September 8.