Thousands of teachers are “out” of recruitment because they lack minimum days of experience and cannot complete the coveted two years
About two months ago at we wrote about an injustice that concerns thousands of teacherswho lose the appointment because of a distortion that the Ministry of Education should immediately correct.
According to law 4589/2019 the right of appointment is granted to teachers with recognized experience in private education, only if they have served in public education as substitutes for at least 2 “full teaching years”, where a “full” teaching year is defined as 10 months for Secondary and 9 for Primary months and 21 days.
However, thousands of teachers lose their right to be appointed, as they themselves complain, as well as OIELE (Federation of Private Educational Officers of Greece), as the two-year term is not completed for just 3 days.
Even though the teachers, who were hired as substitutes in September of the current school year, were working normally, the hiring decision was announced on September 4, instead of even being announced on September 1, so that their seniority would start counting from the beginning of the school year. This results in thousands of teachers being “out” of recruitment because they lack a minimum number of days of experience and cannot complete the coveted two years.
The specific issue was highlighted by OIELE with its announcement, while there is also an opinion of the Legal Council of the State from 2012 which vindicates the teachers.
See the opinion here
“One of the main requests of the Federation in the last five years is the abolition of the regulation of the aforementioned provision. However, since we are under no illusions and know that we have strong “opponents” in front of us, we ask that, if this unacceptable regulation is not abolished, at least it should be implemented with the will of the legislator. For someone to have taught for two years and not be condemned officially, morally and financially for 3 or 4 days, because the state makes savings! Therefore, either the appointments should be made (as they should be) on the first day of September, or the academic two-year period should be recognized from the day the academic (not school) year begins”OIELE said in its announcement.
Source: Skai
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