Abstract
<jats:p>The article analyses Decree No. 40-P of the Constitutional Court of 23 September 2024, which established a fundamentally new approach to determining the remuneration of teachers. The constitutional and legal meaning of the norms of the Labour Code on remuneration is examined in relation to teachers performing work beyond the established norm of hours and additional types of work. The legal consequences of the adopted decision for the remuneration system in education, mechanisms for its implementation and problems of law enforcement are analysed. Special attention is paid to the principle of inadmissibility of „bringing wages to the minimum wage“ by including allowances for additional work, as well as prospects for restoring a unified tariff scale in the public sector. Conclusions are formulated on the need for systemic transformation of legal regulation of teachers’ remuneration based on the legal positions of the highest body of constitutional control.</jats:p>