AOb: 'Cabinet has not yet allocated extra money for salaries'
The current cabinet has not yet invested any extra money in teachers' salaries and has yet to do so. 600 million euros is needed, writes AObchairman Liesbeth Verheggen yesterday in a letter to the House.
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Verheggen responds to the letter Minister of Education Arie Slob to the House of 15 June. In it, Slob wrote that he is happy that there is a negotiation agreement in primary education and that teachers can now really benefit from the salary increase that has come in part thanks to the 270 million euros from this cabinet. "The total wage increase for teachers is 8,5 percent," writes Slob.
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De AOb corrects the minister: the 270 million euros had already been promised by the previous cabinet. Moreover, a condition was attached to this, namely the reduction of the extra-statutory benefits. Verheggen therefore does not recognize the salary increase percentage that Slob mentions. 'A 2,5 percent wage increase has been agreed in the collective labor agreement. This will run until March 1, 2019. A further increase in wages is the result of the justified abolition of the LA salary scale ', writes the AOb-chair. And the abolition of the LA scale was financed with the aforementioned 270 million euros.
The current cabinet has therefore not yet invested any extra money in salaries, Verheggen writes. While this is desperately needed to solve the teacher shortages. Therefore, the actions continue. The next strike will be in South Holland and Zeeland on September 12.
Read the entire letter from AObchairman Liesbeth Verheggen to the Permanent Parliamentary Committee for Education via this link.
