Teachers to secure 20,000 dinars in salary hikes with retroactive effect from June 2012
The long drawn – out strike waged by teachers of the primary and secondary cycles at the call of three autonomous education unions in Algeria, has finally wound up with the national education ministerial department yielding to most of the striking teachers’ demands.
As a result, numerous teachers will be promoted to a higher rank by the end of the month of March or in early April at the latest.
The teachers will also secure salary increases to the tune of 20 thousand dinars monthly with retroactive effect from June 3rd 2012, according to the contents of the minutes signed by the official representatives of the Education Ministry and the civil service at the close of a broad-based assessment meeting held on Tuesday in Algiers.
Echorouk has learnt through well-informed sources close to the meeting that the new incentive measures concerned over 90 thousand employees ranging between elementary teachers and basic education professors.
This breakthrough which put an end to three weeks of an unabated strike at the national level will allow thousands of teachers to be promoted in terms of professional rank and salary scale with the taking into account of the acquired seniority and relevant diplomas, and this after years of oblivion from the minds of the authorities concerned.