Clause 9 - Determination of pay and conditions
Education Bill
4:15 pm
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight, Conservative)
In a local authority that has several secondary schools, two are single-sex: more men teach at the boys' school, and more women at the girls' school. The boys' school achieves earned autonomy and introduces a new pay structure along the lines described by my hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell, with the result that men teachers earn more than women teachers employed by the same local education authority. I do not mean foundation or voluntary-aided schools, but community schools. In those circumstances, women teachers would not receive equivalent pay for equivalent work from the same employer. The employer will be required to do ''anything necessary'' to give effect to the governing body's decision, which may create difficulties under equal opportunities legislation.