Given the low salaries that teachers currently perceive, these They prefer to request their retirements in advance or reduce their work schedules. This was announced by the teaching guild platform that groups Educational sector workers In the country.
In recent days, the Minister for Education, Héctor Rodríguez, suggested to implement a plan for teachers to postpone their retirements and remain teaching for longer.
However, this proposal was not well received by teachers’ unions, taking into account that they receive low salaries today.
Given this, through platform Teaching guild They responded to the minister by pointing out that at this time teachers choose to advance their retirements. This is because wages do not reach them and seek to have extra income with other activities.
Teachers prefer to reduce their work in the education sector
As reported by the platform, the Ministry of Education also demanded that teachers extend their hourly load to avoid the so -called mosaic schedules.
“The Minister of Education has been emphatic: The 36 hours assigned must be fulfilled in its entirety from the 2025-2026 school year. To those who do not, salary discounts will be applied, “they said.
At the same time they recalled that this announcement generates uncertainty in the sector.
“This decision has generated restlessness and rejection in the guild, since many consider that it is a measure disconnected from the economic reality of the country, “they said.
The activists considered that the requirement to meet 36 working hours a week, leads many teachers to request early retirement. This is because they have a base salary of only $ 6 per month that are not enough to cover their basic expenses.
Those who meet the requirements to retire, which are 25 years of service in urban areas or 20 years in rural areas, choose to leave classrooms.
In this sense, teachers They seek retirement to free themselves from labor impositions.
On the other hand, some teachers seek Reduce your hour load from 36 to less than 26 hours per week.
This allows them to work two or three days a week without sacrificing income such as the Economic War Bonus ($ 120) or the Ticket basket ($ 40) that pay them according to the rate of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV). And they remain while the teacher has more than 18 hours of workload.
In this regard, the guild indicates: “Many teachers try to stay active without losing their benefits, others decide to retire early, and all agree on something: The teaching base salary is insufficient to live“They point out.
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