The General Union of Private School Workers stated that the 15% reduction in tuition fees in private schools during the distance education period, announced by the Prime Minister, should not affect teachers' salaries, administrators, drivers and other workers in the sector.
In a press release, the President of the Trade Union, Mazen Maaitah, said his organization has already received complaints from workers whose schools have begun to talk about a 15% wage cut, which represents a serious violation of workers' rights and current legislation.
In this context, the union official explained that private education is not among the sectors hardest hit by the pandemic, according to the list published by the Minister of Labour yesterday, This means that workers' wages cannot be reduced in accordance with the Defence Decree which organizes the payment of wages according to the repercussions suffered by each sector during the health crisis.
Mazen Maaitah called on all workers in the sector to oppose any wage cuts and to file complaints with the Ministry of Labour, via the protection platform, if their respective administrations threatened them with such a measure. The President of the Union recalled that the workers in the sector are carrying out their tasks in accordance with what has been asked of them in the context of distance education, which means that the schools have no reason to reduce their salaries.
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