Education Minister Joao Costa said this Sunday that studies and calculations are being carried out to assess under what conditions the frozen working hours for teachers can be restored so that proposals can be submitted.
“We’re doing calculations, studies in comparison with other professions, studies of projections of the impact on the number of teachers, then to present proposals and say how far we can go,” he said in a joint interview with TSF radio. and JN newspaper.
Teachers who have gone on strike and taken to the streets in protest are not relinquishing some six and a half years of frozen service, noting that the government has “returned” that time to teachers working in schools in the Azores and Madeira.
Until the guardianship authorities come up with a proposal for a timetable for discussing the issue, teachers will continue to protest, participating in new demonstrations and strikes.
On Thursday, talks between the government and teachers’ unions ended inconclusively. One of the reasons that prompted the trade unions to refuse any agreement is the refusal of the government to restore the length of service frozen during the Troika.
However, trade union organizations will have to wait for the Ministry of Education’s final diploma, due by Wednesday, to decide by Thursday whether to request further talks or not.
“What we need to ensure is that what is done in one career is not disproportionate to what happens in others, and therefore we must make this comparative analysis because all careers are equally worthy and all careers are equally worthy.” intervention.” , said Joao Costa in an interview with TSF and JN, noting that the priority of negotiations with teachers was to review the recruitment model.
In an interview on 16 February with TVI, Prime Minister António Costa emphasized that “there are no conditions” for the return of service time to teachers, citing that this “would mean 1,300 million euros of fixed costs every year.” .
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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