Algeria: The Ministry of Education “punishes” teachers

The Ministry of National Education decided to take strict punitive measures against the striking teachers in order to compel them to stop the protests and the strike the sector is witnessing, so that it was decided to deny the strikers a profitability grant by giving them a zero mark, with the days of the strike deducted in one payment and not gradually, despite That the days of the strike are subject to negotiation, as provided by law.

The General Secretariat of the Ministry of Education instructed the directors of education, through the directors of educational institutions for the three educational phases, and principals of primary schools in particular, to start dropping the strikers on the Mardoudia grant for the fourth three months of the current year 2019, by giving them a score of zero of 40, while collecting and adding all Days of work stopping, whether among primary education teachers, who refused to resume their work and continue their renewed protest movements weekly, for the tenth consecutive days, or among teachers of the rest of the middle and secondary stages, who participated in the mass strike, after they paralyzed the A study with rates ranging between 60 and 80 percent in major cities, and deducting them at one time from the salaries of those concerned, although the laws in effect expressly state that the deduction from the wages of employees who are suspended from work is carried out in stages, i.e. gradually, and starting from the month following the protest movement.

These measures come after the strike carried out by primary education teachers over a month and a half, demanding a review of the Basic Law and reclassification of secondary, middle and primary education professors at the same base level in order to obtain the same educational qualification.

They also demand the reclassification of a master professor and a professor formed across the three phases in a manner commensurate with the classification of the base rank, the standardization of ranks, and the review of the working hours of primary education teachers in comparison with the working hours in the middle and secondary levels.