The regional coordination committee of the Teachers who were forced to sign a contract in Casablanca denounced the deduction of the wages of a group of contracted Teachers (the teachers belonging to the academic staff), in light of the worsening situation that humanity is experiencing due to Coronavirus pandemic.
The Coordination Committee described the deduction from the teachers’ wages, in some cases exceeding one thousand and five hundred dirhams, as “an explicit expression of the state’s use of crises to accelerate the pace of encroachment on the rights and gains of educational workers.”
The committee also added in a statement: “Instead of the Ministry of Education, along with its institutions, engaging in supporting teachers and showing appreciation for accompanying remote learners by providing the necessary support for them and students alike, we find that the wages of teachers are engulfed in irresponsible behavior that reflects the actual essence of institutions that exploit the circumstance to further generalize fragility of the sector.”
The committee itself also expressed its “full readiness” to respond to what it called the violations of the trusteeship by the ministry and its institutions “at the appropriate time”, warning that “the success of the distance education process requires not affecting the professor’s wages, and harnessing all the financial capabilities of the students.”
The Moroccan Democratic Authority for Human Rights, in turn, described the deductions to the wages of a group of contracted professors as “illegal and unconstitutional,” they said in a denunciative statement: “Instead of the government and the Ministry of National Education’s approach to the policy of thankfulness, motivation and valorizing the efforts of these teachers in continuing the educational process from a distance for the benefit of the people.”
“During the critical situation caused by the turmoil of the Coronavirus pandemic, they are met with deductions from their already cheap wages”, they added.
The commission called on the “Moroccan government and the Ministry of National Education to act wisely in the current period that requires putting the nation’s interest over any other consideration, and to stop these arbitrary measures from illegal deductions that strike the core principles of the constitution, charters and international covenants stipulating the right to strike,” and strongly condemned what it called “the government and the Ministry of National Education persistence to breach the law through illegal deductions for all public employees in the public sector due to the strike.”
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