During a recent meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Children (Minist\u00e8re de l\u2019Education nationale, de la Jeunesse et de l\u2019Enfance – MENJE), a SEW\/OGBL delegation exchanged views on transfer rights for part-time teachers.<\/p>\n
Secondary school teachers with part-time work (e.g. colleagues who have to limit their working hours for health reasons, but especially women who reduce their working hours after the birth of a child) are currently facing discrimination compared to their colleagues with full-time work, if they wish to transfer to another school. For the SEW\/OGBL, the decisive criterion should be the seniority of service, not the number of teaching hours.<\/p>\n
The SEW\/OGBL is also calling for an end to the discrimination suffered by supply-teachers at this level.<\/p>\n
Several concrete results emerged from the meeting with the Ministry.<\/p>\n
According to Ministry representatives, SEW\/OGBL’s demand for a real right to transfer for part-time teachers will be implemented. This is an important step in our commitment to greater equality.<\/p>\n
It is intended that, in future, the actual need for vacant hours in a secondary school will be announced during the transfer procedure, so that even part-time teachers can apply for these posts. Here, SEW\/OGBL’s demands regarding criteria will be taken into account as far as possible: status, seniority and exam results will in future be decisive for the allocation of the post, and not the number of teaching hours. A proposal to this effect has been announced by the Ministry.<\/p>\n
The Ministry has also announced that it is responding positively to the SEW\/OGBL’s demand for the introduction of a right of transfer for supply-teachers. A specific transfer procedure will be established for this group of teaching staff. This should meet the SEW\/OGBL’s demand that “charg\u00e9s” can remain at their school if they complete the “fonctionarisation” procedure after 15 years’ service or more.<\/p>\n
The only drawback is that there is no provision for a transfer procedure for teaching staff at International and European Schools. The SEW\/OGBL will maintain its demand that these teachers should also benefit from a right of transfer in order to be able to apply for vacant posts in International or European public schools.<\/p>\n
Press release from the SEW\/OGBL secondary department
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