Last Thursday, the Ministry of Education launched the Mobility Through Sickness (MPD) procedure with the same rules introduced last year, ignoring criticism from the Ombudsman who found the new regime inadequate and recommended that it be changed. Fenprof considers this legislation “inhuman” and speaks of “insensitivity” and “incompetence”. [da equipa ministerial] to perform official duties.”
The MPD allows teachers with disabilities or immediate family members with disabilities to be placed closer to home or health care facilities. But the new rules have reduced this possibility by allowing only 10% of the school’s teaching staff to be formed by MPD teachers and by limiting the number of vacancies by subject/group. Fenprof guarantees that, due to the new regime, MPD has been denied “2,800 teachers who have been identified as having a disabling illness”, forcing these teachers “on extended sick leave at a time when there is a shortage of teachers”. Fenprof also points to the mental and physical suffering these teachers endured because they were unable to teach, recalling “four cases of teacher deaths without recognition of their MPD eligibility.” This MPD mode ends its two-year trial period next year.
Author: Bernardo Esteves
Source: CM Jornal
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