The Parliamentary Group of the PCP requested this Friday the urgent hearing in the parliament of the Minister of Education and representatives of FENPROF on changes to the mobility regime for teachers due to illness.
According to a request addressed to the Minister of Education and to FENPROF, through parliament, the communists ask the emergency hearing of João Costa and representatives of that trade union center on the decree-law that established the mobility regime for teachers due to illness.
According to the government diploma, teachers with disabling illnesses, or close family members with such a condition, may choose a school closer to their home or health care provider. The change is expected to take effect in the next academic year.
Teachers who request mobility due to illness must maintain at least six hours of teaching time, contrary to current regulations.
A multipurpose disability certificate is also required, as well as a certificate of disabling illness and travel for medical treatment purposes, and the teachers’ age will count as a tie-breaker in placement.
In recent days, the diploma was the object of negotiation with the unions of the sector, who rejected the Government’s proposal on the grounds that the new criterion was unfair.
In the submitted application, The PCP considers that the Government is facing an “administrative” situation “of special fragility”as a “regime of competition and not of disease protection, requiring the existence of vacancies in the host school, the mandatory component of six hours of teaching” and measures of distance between schools “by rule and squad”.
It is up to the State to guarantee protection in illness and health protection at work, so that teachers do not suffer health damage (…). This situation will create more instability in schools, which will lead to these teachers being forced to present sick leave, taking them out of school”, argue the communists.
In the opinion of the party, this problem found part of the solution in the hiring of more teachers and in the unblocking of the “existing obstacles to enter the career.”
Source: Observadora
