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

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

“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.”

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.”

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