In the midst of the tension and the struggles for power, the Executive and Congress have just reached a point of consensus to materialize the 100% leveling of the payment for compensation for time of service (CTS) of the teachers appointed in the public sector.
The president of the Parliament, María del Carmen Alva (Popular Action), yesterday signed the autograph of the norm for its promulgation, after acquiescing to a proposal sent by the Executive to make these payments viable, without putting the fiscal box at risk.
The Parliament had approved the text of the norm on February 2 of this year. However, President Pedro Castillo and the head of the ministerial cabinet, Aníbal Torres, sent a letter on February 25 observing the autograph. That is, they refused to enact it.
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However, in the same letter, the Executive proposed a formula to make viable the payment of 100% of the CTS to appointed teachers.
Cancellation in parts
According to the Executive’s approach, appointed teachers who cease this year will access 100% of the CTS, but in separate payments for three years. In 2022 they will be assigned 50%, in 2023, 20% and in 2024, 30%.
Teachers who leave in 2023 will receive 70% of the CTS that year and the balance in 2024.
And those who stop after 2024 will receive 100% of the CTS immediately.
This formula was accepted by Parliament. For this reason, the head of this state power, María del Carmen Alva, announced yesterday the signature for the publication of this rule in El Peruano.
“The Education sector has been waiting for a long time for the attention of its just demands. And they have in Parliament the necessary will to channel these demands”, Alva said yesterday.
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Teachers with fair CTS
The promulgation of the norm is the result of a prolonged struggle by the Unitary Union of Workers in Education of Peru (Sutep), a union that had already advanced with a normative proposal in the previous Congress, but the text was observed by Francisco Sagasti.
Specifically, the rule involves the modification of articles 53 and 54 of Law 29944, the Teacher Reform Law, on the calculation of the CTS.
The main impact of this approved text will be the substantial increase in the CTS for appointed teachers, in the different remuneration scales. And it is that, at present, teachers only receive 14% of the full monthly remuneration (RIM) for CTS. An otherwise ridiculous figure.
If a teacher is in the first remuneration scale, the RIM is 2,500 soles. With this figure, the payment per CTS per year would be barely 350 soles. This figure multiplied by 30 years of service represents a final payment of 10,500 soles for CTS.
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This will change with the new standard. The teacher with RIM of 2,500 soles will now receive that same amount (100%) of CTS per year. Then, multiplying this figure of 2,500 soles by 30 years of service leads to establishing a payment of 75,000 soles per CTS. This is the amount that teachers will receive from CTS going forward after termination.
In fact, in November the RIM of the first scale will be 2,600 soles. (See table for the calculation of CTS that they will receive for each of the remuneration scales).
pending fights
Lucio Castro, national leader of Sutep, explained to La República that there are an average of 245,000 teachers who will benefit from this law. Of this figure, 60% of the teachers are in the first salary scale.
In 2022 alone, it is estimated that 6,000 teachers will be dismissed and they are the first to benefit from the allocation of the fair CTS, as a product of this law.
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Lucio Castro welcomed the decision of Congress to move forward with the enactment of the rule, after acquiescing to the observations and the payment formula proposed by the Executive.
The leader questions, yes, that President Pedro Castillo has taken fifteen days to observe the norm, since a block of teachers have already ceased within that period, without being able to access the fairest CTS. Lucio Castro anticipates that now they will fight so that this extends to the contracted and auxiliary ones.
The word
Lucio Castro, national leader of Sutep
“We welcome that Congress has signed this rule that benefits an important sector of the teaching profession. Now we are going to fight so that this reaches contract teachers and assistants.”
