Minister of National Education Chakib Benmoussa stated that the total cost of implementing the fundamental statute for sector employees is estimated at MAD 17 billion.
Benmoussa, who attended the weekly press conference following Thursday’s government council, explained that the increase in teachers’ wages will cost 9 billion cents.
The government had approved a wage increase of MAD 1,500 per month for the 335,000 men and women in education, in two phases, with half of the increase to be paid this year and the other half to be paid next year.
The wage increase approved by the government will raise the monthly starting salary of primary school teachers from MAD 5,100 to MAD 6,600, while they will leave with a pension of MAD 15,000.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of National Education is still insisting on processing the files of teachers suspended from work against the backdrop of the protests against the basic system, while the coordinations are demanding that they be reinstated “without conditions.”
Benmoussa said that the administrative committee of the Ministry of Education is working on this issue.
Benmoussa said that the administrative committee set up by the Ministry of National Education to address the file of suspended teachers will start its work starting next week, “to make the necessary arrangements according to each case,” adding that the work of the committee “will open the way to study the cases individually.”
Benmoussa assured that suspended professors “were not suspended because of the strike, but because of a number of violations they committed.”
According to the same government official, the statute of employees of the national education sector will be unified for all women and men in education, including all employees of the ministry, “and this opens the way to settle all the files that were pending, such as the file of the regional academies of education and training.”
He pointed out that the number of teachers of regional academies of education and training whose status has been changed to employees is 150,000, noting that they will enjoy the same rights as all employees of the sector, and the statute has simplified the procedures for their promotion.
At its weekly meeting, the government approved a set of decrees that will operationalize the statute of the national education sector employees, “which comes out of the government’s conviction that the teacher is a key actor within the education system, and to implement the two agreements signed with the most representative educational unions,” according to Benmoussa.
Mustapha Baitas, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister in charge of relations with Parliament, reiterated during the weekly press conference that the government respects parliament, against the backdrop of the opposition teams’ accusations that the executive branch is not responding to them.
Baitas said: “It is normal to hear some accusations like this, and the response to them is that the government has a majority in parliament,” he said, adding: “We respect the work done by the parliament, the decisions issued by the Constitutional Court and the Constitutional Council, and we emphasize the cooperation and complementarity between the legislative and executive institutions.”
“The government respects the opposition and the parliament, and its conviction is that it is the complementarity between the two institutions that gives public policies capable of solving social issues,” he added.
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