School board administrators insist salaries not breaking wage freeze legislation

Peel District School Board Education Director Tony Pontes (left) and Dufferin-Peel Catholic
District School Board Education Director John Kostoff insist their salaries and that of their
senior staffs do not break the provincial government's wage freeze regulations.

PEEL– Senior administrators at Peel’s school boards insisted they are not among any at Ontario school boards that may have ignored a salary freeze imposed by the Liberal government in 2010, despite receiving pay cheques that were topped up a year after the provincial wage regulations were introduced.

Education directors at the Peel District School Board and the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board said pay raises in 2011 were vetted by board lawyers and considered in line with the government’s public sector wage freeze.  (more...)

School board administrators insist salaries not breaking wage freeze legislation