NI education: Teachers' fair employment law exemption 'outdated'

NI education: Teachers' fair employment law exemption 'outdated'

The exemption of teachers in Northern Ireland from fair employment legislation "is outdated and needs to be removed", according to a union.

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A number of MLAs and the former first minister, Arlene Foster, have previously criticised that exemption.

The teaching union, the NASUWT, is the latest to call for the exemption to be scrapped.

The recruitment of teachers is exempt from legislation outlawing religious discrimination in Northern Ireland.

The NASUWT said removing the exemption would "tackle endemic nepotism and lack of diversity in the teaching profession."

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The union is to present a motion to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) conference in Belfast on Tuesday.

It calls for the backing of the wider trade union movement for the exemption to be removed.

"The practical effect of this is that it is not currently unlawful to discriminate against someone in an appointment process on the basis of their religious belief," the NASUWT said.

In 1976, the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act exempted teachers and clergy as "the essential nature of the job requires it be done by a person holding, or not holding, a particular religious belief".

That was maintained in the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.