SCHOOL TEACHERS' SICK PAY.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Melbourne, January 28. A deputation from school teachers waited on the Minister for Education and declared that the proposed stoppage of sick pay was degrading and humiliating. They said they would rather have a reduction made in their wages. The proposal implied that teachers were given to malingering. The Minister replied that they laboured under a misapprehension, and the exigency of the State required the retrenchment. Hβ pointed out thac •last year the amount paid to teachers for sick pay was £10,700.
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Press, Volume II, Issue 8704, 29 January 1894, Page 5
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