2024-04-25 13:48:17
At the invitation of Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Elias Bou Saab, the Union of Private Educational Institutions and the Teachers’ Union met yesterday and agreed on some amendments whose implementation will begin from the next school year. next October.
In this context, the president of the Union of Teachers of Private Schools, Nima Mahfoud, explained: “Private schools demand the suspension for a period of three years of article 2 of the finance law 1996/515 relating to the distribution income between operating expenses and salaries. 65% and 35%), given that in If establishments want to add to the budget the total salaries of teachers in dollars and in Lebanese, they can only modify this percentage.
Mahfoud confirmed that “he has no objection to suspending work there for a period of two or three years, until things are put back in order, but this is conditional on the inclusion of all salaries paid to teachers in the budget, in addition to paying 8% of all salaries to the compensation fund, and teachers also paid 8% of “I direct them to the box, and so it is fed.”
He noted that “it was agreed to attempt to legislate these amendments from today until September, and they will be enacted into law by the House of Representatives.” However, if the House of Representatives does not meet and legislate, the contents of these amendments will begin to be implemented as if they were legislated, effective October 1, 2024.”
He revealed that “Bou Saab was instructed yesterday to communicate with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and inform him that the union and the owners of the institutions agreed on these amendments, and as long as the agreement exists, Mahfoud did not rule out summoning Berri for a session to legislate them.
What is the scope of school engagement if the legislation is not implemented? He stressed: “We will try to enforce these amendments, just as we are trying today to impose the protocol that we currently apply to pay additional salaries to retired professors.”
What regarding private schools informing families of their intention to increase tuition by a rate between 30 and 50 percent? He considered that “the role of parents’ committees begins here, and the responsibility lies with the Ministry of Education in terms of controlling budgets, especially since schools do not have the right to announce tuition fees. schooling, before knowing the number of students and what the salaries will be. be paid to teachers.
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