Is M.O.E. Directing Managing Authorities to Dock Teachers Salary?

Turning back to the unions…Teachers have been on strike since Monday of last week. The law provides that teachers’ salaries can be cut for their time out of the classroom during this period.  But that decision is left up to the managing authorities of the schools. Well on Tuesday, B.N.T.U. President Senator Elena Smith accused the Ministry of Education of requesting managing authorities to cut the pay for those teachers out on strike.  The union took a similar matter to court following their 2016 strike actions. 

Elena Smith

Senator Elena Smith, National President, B.N.T.U.

“The managing authority. And we are aware that the ministry has been requesting managing authority to do so. And that is not the job of the Ministry, it is the job of the managing authority and they should not be asked by any other entity to do that or encouraged or whatever word you want to use. Nobody should do that. It should be them alone making that decision. But we are aware of otherwise, and you will recall the case we took to court in 2016 for that very same reason.”