“Revenge law” for teachers: Orbán cabinet proposes an extraordinary session of Parliament for Friday
The government has initiated an extraordinary session of parliament on Friday to discuss the new law on teachers’ career paths, as well as amendments to legislation on local taxes, the rights of ethnic minorities, as well as mining and sustainable development.
According to a letter of Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén posted on parliament’s website, the session would serve the “speedy adoption of those proposals”.
Deferring the vote to the autumn session would delay important legislative goals, he said.
The proposed amendment on teachers’ career paths would “lay the foundations for the professional and social appreciation of teachers, as well as for further substantial wage hikes,” the interior ministry, which submitted the proposal, has said. The amendment would change teachers’ employment status, their working hours, and introduce a performance-based salary system, among other measures, it said.
There is already a big teacher shortage, meaning thousands of teachers are missing from the Hungarian education system, but the government’s planned changes would see even more teachers leave. As we wrote before, last time, student organisations, teachers’ union demonstrate against law on teachers’ careers on June 5, details HERE. Teachers are organising a demonstration on Friday to protest against the “revenge law” again.
The proposed amendment on local taxes would ban local authorities from taxing farmland.
The amendments on the rights of ethnic minorities would amend the election law in line with the proposals of the ethnic minority governments.
Parliament‘s spring session is slated to end on Thursday, June 15.
Source: MTI
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Our President keeps pushing and prodding and bribeing our women to have more children. Not one word out of her mouth to support teachers, who spend more time with the children then the parents. What kind of mother is this?
“The proposed amendment on teachers’ career paths would “lay the foundations … for further substantial wage hikes” but how? Hungary doesn’t have money for this and needs the EU Recovery fund to finance those wage hikes.
This government doesn’t like teachers, it seems.
Teachers are ungrateful. They received their education from teachers who cared more for children and results. The previous class of teachers rejected all leftist, socialist ideas because they realized it was bad for the children and bad for the country. As long as teachers are more concerned about “I” they are not only failing the children but the country.