“Revenge law” for teachers: Orbán cabinet proposes an extraordinary session of Parliament for Friday
The government has initiated an extraordinary session of parliament on Friday to discuss the new law on teachers’ career paths, as well as amendments to legislation on local taxes, the rights of ethnic minorities, as well as mining and sustainable development.
According to a letter of Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén posted on parliament’s website, the session would serve the “speedy adoption of those proposals”.
Deferring the vote to the autumn session would delay important legislative goals, he said.
The proposed amendment on teachers’ career paths would “lay the foundations for the professional and social appreciation of teachers, as well as for further substantial wage hikes,” the interior ministry, which submitted the proposal, has said. The amendment would change teachers’ employment status, their working hours, and introduce a performance-based salary system, among other measures, it said.
There is already a big teacher shortage, meaning thousands of teachers are missing from the Hungarian education system, but the government’s planned changes would see even more teachers leave. As we wrote before, last time, student organisations, teachers’ union demonstrate against law on teachers’ careers on June 5, details HERE. Teachers are organising a demonstration on Friday to protest against the “revenge law” again.
The proposed amendment on local taxes would ban local authorities from taxing farmland.
The amendments on the rights of ethnic minorities would amend the election law in line with the proposals of the ethnic minority governments.
Parliament‘s spring session is slated to end on Thursday, June 15.
Source: MTI