Ethiopian teachers are complain about deductions from their salaries.
The Ethiopian Teachers’ Association highlighted this issue saying that the salaries of teachers are being deducted in the name of development contributions without consultation.
The vice president of the association, Shimels Abebe, said yesterday that this is happening to teachers in different regions.
He said that teachers are being forced to contribute to the construction of roads etc. The Association said that teachers and teachers associations should have been consulted before such deductions.
Mr. Shimelis said that the problems of teachers in the regions are increasing from time to time and that they are being denied the benefits they should get, such as promotion and promotion.
He also explained that there are teachers who are not able to cope with the cost of living with the current salary. Unfortunately, there are teachers in the Southern, Afar and Amhara regions who have not been paid their salaries for three or four months.
No statement has been issued by the Ethiopian ministry of education about these accusations so far.
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Obviously this is what is being normal and legal in Qellem Wolega Zone of Oromia Regional State of Ethiopia. Inaddition teachers’ rights such as promotion, land ownership and others are seriously violated by government officials. So, unless this problem is solved immediately by concerned government bodies, its impact on the quality of education will be heavy.
In addition to the above statement which I agree that the MOE has to say about salary deduction, there is also a development request of road construction and so on emanating from administrative weredas even if the rationale is not there. I overheard that there is still a quest of money from citzens of that wereda even it is already budgeted and covered by the government and yet still individuals phone call each and every citizen of that area to pay whatever amount of money they like in the account they give. We don’t know whose account it is. Evey time they call and intimidate. I don’t think government knows it. Simply it is requested for personal use,corruption!!!