Liu'an teachers "salary" incident: "Teachers Law" to harden up.

This incident should be taken as a typical example of the implementation of the legal treatment of teachers, and to this end to build a mechanism to protect the treatment of teachers.

At around 9 a.m. on May 27, the incident of some school teachers' salary demands in Lu'an City, Anhui Province, due to the issue of payment of their entitlements fermented on the Internet and aroused concern.

Solving the problem of "unpaid wages", the then vice governor had instructions

So far, the local education department and the authorities have not yet responded to the issue of whether the teachers are owed a salary (incentives)? The company's website is a good place to find out more about the company's services and services, and to learn more about the company.) How long have they been in arrears? -- to which a clear statement should be given to the teachers involved.

According to a copy of data obtained by China Newsweek from the Anhui Provincial Department of Education on November 17, 2017, on the "Statistical Table on the Issuance of One-Time Work Incentives in Various Places," all teachers in Lu'an City, including the city, three districts, and four counties, had not been issued one-time work incentives as of that time, while in other cities and municipalities, no one-time work incentives had been issued at all yet include the cities of Huaibei, Maanshan, Suzhou, Bengbu, Xuancheng, Tongling, Fuyang, Huainan and Chuzhou.

The report recommends that the relevant departments and municipal and county governments further implement their main responsibilities to safeguard teachers' wages and salaries in accordance with the law, "especially when formulating policies for one-time work incentives, they should implement teachers' wages and salaries in accordance with the law and actively and steadily choose the timing of their issuance, so as to eliminate the unfavorable factors affecting the stability of primary and middle school teachers' teams."

The then-vice governor of Anhui Province, Xie Guangxiang, authorized the report, asking the Education Department to attach great importance to guiding localities to deal with the issue in a stable manner.

In fact, the report has mentioned, "the average salary level of teachers should be no less than or higher than the average salary level of national civil servants, and gradually increase, which is clearly stipulated in the Teachers' Law, the issuance of a one-time work incentives are directly related to the practical interests of the majority of teachers, at present due to the improper handling of individual areas, has become a primary and secondary school teachers to affect the team of The outstanding problem of stability."

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The Teachers' Law was promulgated in 1994, and in recent years, opinions about building the teaching force have repeatedly reiterated this legal provision. But 24 years later, there are still some places ignore it. The root cause is the lack of a rigorous accountability mechanism - few people have been held accountable for "failing to protect the rights of teachers".

In response to the incident, CCTV and other media outlets have called for teachers to be given an explanation for their unpaid wages, which is the least they can do.

Honoring teachers is not an empty phrase. Teachers in Lu'an are not asking for a pay rise, they are just defending their most basic rights. A teacher is not even guaranteed basic treatment, how to stimulate their sense of professional honor?

Protecting the legitimate rights of teachers, we must speed up the establishment of the "education civil service" system

A hundred years of planning, education for this, the education plan, teachers for this. This incident should be taken as a typical implementation of the right to legal treatment of teachers, in-depth investigation of why the implementation of the Teachers Law so far, some places to protect the treatment of teachers why it is still so difficult, and to build a mechanism to protect the treatment of teachers.

Two of these systems are critical. One is to reform the basic education funding mechanism. At present, the basic education funding part of the per capita public funds, has been included in the provincial financial co-ordination, but the part of the teacher's treatment, but also mainly by the county and township financial security, "financial resources" limited places naturally affect the protection of the teacher's treatment. This needs to be resolved through the provincial financial co-ordination, and appropriately increase the central financial transfers.

Another basic system is to establish a national education civil service. Earlier this year, the central government and the State Council issued the Opinions on Comprehensively Deepening the Reform of Teacher Construction in the New Era, stating that it is necessary to "establish the special legal status of public primary and secondary school teachers as national public officials". This has been interpreted by public opinion as similar to the establishment of a national education civil service. The inclusion of teachers in the management of civil servants not only helps to protect the treatment of teachers, the implementation of the Teachers Law, but also contributes to the further training and use of the teaching force, and I hope that the construction of this system can be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

Source: Phoenix InfoNews