Teachers in New South Wales have been awarded a 6 per cent pay rise over the next two years after a year of protracted negotiations and strikes.
NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said the decision by the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) was a pleasing outcome for the state's 90,000 teachers but the union said it represented a real wage cut and would only worsen the current teaching shortage.
The decision by the IRC means teachers will get a 3 per cent increase this year, which will be backdated and paid in a lump sum on December 22, and another 3 per cent next year.
