'Suggestion for extra money for primary education completely incorrect'
The 'extra' 285 million euros for primary education that the Ministry of Education suggests today is no more than the normal wage gap of three percent for the entire public sector.
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Today the Ministry of Education reports in a press release that the cabinet is structurally making 285 million euros available for a higher salary in primary education. Minister Slob is also calling on the parties to the collective labor agreement to make agreements about how this money will be spent.
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"The suggestion is that it's a special perk, but it's not," says AOb-chairman Liesbeth Verheggen. "It concerns the normal wage range of just over 3 percent. This wage range applies to all civil servants, all employees in education, all police officers and all healthcare personnel. And I suspect ultimately also for the minister himself. In this way, the public "The sector is a bit in step with wages in the business community. By focusing today on primary and special education, it seems that extra work is being done on the teacher shortage. That is completely incorrect."
AObchair Liesbeth Verheggen: 'The suggestion is that it is a special extra, but it is not'
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Verheggen would also like to see a collective labor agreement in primary education come around quickly, but the budget of 285 million euros is too tight to really make working in primary and special education more attractive. "We need money for special education, for school leaders, for wage increases in general and we want to eliminate the wage gap compared to the market," said the AOb-chair. "The figures from the OECD, the international think tank of rich countries, which appeared yesterday, once again clearly showed that primary education has a huge wage gap in relation to the labor market. If the minister wants a collective labor agreement to be drawn up quickly, he really has to invest in education this Prinsjesdag."
