It said some workers aged over 65 or those on fixed term contracts would continue to be employed if their roles were of a "specialist or hard to recruit skill".
This means that existing employees may continue to accrue benefits on a schedule that the state has decided is unaffordable and unnecessary to recruit and retain a workforce, in many cases for decades to come.
If our teachers continue to feel threatened and scared, you will rob our schools of our best and handcuff our efforts to recruit tomorrow's outstanding educators.