The Neuquén Legislature approved the law that establishes the payment of an additional fee for teachers who do not exceed three quarterly absences. This additional is intended to combat “absenteeism in schools”, it would be an extra that ranges from $120,000 to $280,000 per quarter. What does ATEN think about the approval of teacher presenteeism?
Listen to Cintia Galetto, deputy secretary of ATEN, on RÍO NEGRO RADIO:
«It was a very special day. We requested the presence of the three commissions in the plenary session because we had not been summoned, We even found out through the media,” Galetto said.
To this I add: that “It was important to express the position (before the proposal) of the education workers who use the leave regime.”
Galetto also clarified that there are points that are “anti-constitutional” and assured that it was a session «express that emerged from one day to the next. The governor said that there was a need to have dialogue, but in a context like this, it is not possible.
Besideswas blunt with the “publicly installed” 30% of absent teachers: “Are there more reasons why children don’t go to school?”, he said.
The additional will be settled on a quarterly basis, with the monthly payments for the months of March, June, September and December of each year and that will impact the bonus.
The staff will perceive it whose absences do not exceed three quarterly, with a limit of two monthly, duly justified and framed in the licensing regime. The training requirement was removed. The calculation is that they will earn between $120,000 to $280,000 per quarter, depending on seniority.
Before its approval at the venue, Marcelo Guagliardo, the general secretary of the union at the provincial level, questioned the approval in commissionconsidering that they gave “very quick” treatment to an “absolutely complicated” issue that directly affects “our working and health conditions.”
The representative, who participated on behalf of the union during the committee debate, also said that it was provided to the legislators “abundant information that those who developed the project clearly lacked«.
ATEN protest in the center of Neuquén this Wednesday
To the strike for 48 hours in advance and the stay outside the Legislature, where the project to seek the presenteeism of Neuquén teachers by paying a bonus was approved, the ATEN union announced a march in the center of Neuquén capital this Wednesday.
In a statement, the union announced the activity for 11, at the monument to San Martín, from where the concentration started. The union marched through the center of the city towards the Government House. Traffic in the area is complicated.
The measure, which is developed with provincial scope, will also contemplate a stay in the Government House, under the call for “No to absenteeism! For the defense of our rights.”
