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NFP: 'Teachers' salary increment a colossal disaster and the teaching fraternity has been exploited and held to ransom by the FFP government'

22/8/2017

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August 22, 2017
 
MEDIA RELEASE
 
Teachers’ salary increment a colossal disaster
 
The teaching fraternity has been exploited and held to ransom by the current Government, which has forced them to enter into discriminatory contracts under the pretext of offering them salary increases.
 
Principals, Vice Principals, Heads of Department (HOD), Head Teachers, Assistant Head Teachers and other post holders have been demoted to a lower rank and then offered acting appointments to the substantive positions they previously held.
 
Teachers who held substantive positions have been first appointed to a rank lower than the position they were holding, and then given a second contract offering them an acting contract to the position they held substantially and an acting salary of 95% of the substantive salary.
 
We have cited contracts of several teachers to confirm the exploitation and discriminatory nature of the contract.
 
In one case a principal was first offered the contract of a vice principal. The person has been holding the position of Principal prior to this ill-conceived reform. On the same day, the person was given another contract of Acting Principal of 95% of the increased salary.
 
In another case a teacher holding the position of HOD (Head of Department) was first offered the contract of Assistant Teacher. On the same day, the person was offered an Acting HOD Contract at a salary of  95% of the new salary.
 
Furthermore, teachers who have been in the service for over 25 years have been given a meagre pay rise of 6.4 percent and the same as teachers with far less experience because they do not hold a Diploma. The teachers are furious because their experience counts for nothing.
 
Worse of all, all contracts render meaningless the teachers’ employment security and make them totally subservient to Government.
 
Some of its regressive provisions are: -

  1. Renewal of the contract is at the absolute discretion of Government
  2. The Civil Servant irrevocably agrees that non-renewal of the Contract will not give rise to any course of action whatsoever against the Government
  3. The duration of the Contract expires immediately upon a civil servant reaching the retirement age of 55
  4. Renewal of the Contract is subject to Government requiring the services of the civil servant and that too if he or she agrees to enter into another contract on mutually agreed terms
  5. The decision of Government to transfer a civil servant on the existing terms of the Contract to anywhere in Fiji is final
  6. Government has the right to change or vary the Contract anytime
 
This discriminatory and exploitative contractual employment that is being forced upon our teachers will not result in a harmonious, unified and productive civil service. 
 
Such draconian contracts are subjugating our teachers and have no place in a genuine democracy.
 
The two teacher unions must rise and take immediate action to protect their members and prevent this Government from eroding their employment conditions and all teachers must also reject this enforced condition.
 
Authorised by:
Professor Biman Prasad
NFP Leader

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6 Comments
Chiku
22/8/2017 04:45:01 pm

It's true the terms of employment of teachers - the draconian contracts under which they work - have no place in a genuine democracy.
But Fiji is no genuine democracy. It only masquerades as a democracy, The post coup dictatorship has merely adorned itself in a democratic garb.
That's the reality confronting the teachers and other workers and the people of Fiji generally.

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Tomasi
23/8/2017 12:55:07 am

For the BaiYum dictatorship to continue into the future, it must court the attention and admiration of the general public of Fiji. Hence the freebies and better life agenda in their various expressions such as free bus tickets, cash, cereals, vote-buying wage increments, expensive public roads, and the never ending salusalu opening events around the country.

For the civil service to be under the firm control of the dictators, it must pledge loyalty and allegiance to them. Hence the new contracts with their mandatory elements and rewards.

For the dogs of war (security forces ) to remain loyal to their commodores, they must be properly fed, well groomed and kept in a happy and contented mental state. Hence the enormous and unjustified wage increases at the expense of our deteriorating health, agriculture, education and forestry sectors.

Wake up Fiji before you wake up to a first Islamic state in the South Pacific.

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Samjoe
23/8/2017 10:39:51 pm

You too right, brother!

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Jotama Ravusei
23/8/2017 02:03:27 pm

@Tomasi,Fiji already became a islamic state from the day bainimarama and his goons appointed kaiyum as ag. he has slowly destroyed everything Fijians held dear by keeping bainimarama and military goons well fed. first Nadra and now pakistan embassy in Fiji are signs of kaiyum aligning Fiji to terrorists nations and supporters. its time that taukeis unite and remove the tumor of kaiyum/bainimarama before it fully engulfs Fiji towards islamisation.

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Rajend Naidu
23/8/2017 10:38:24 pm

Editor,
Attacking the Media to Cover up Crooked Political conduct
At his election campaign rally in Arizona where predictably his loyalists cheered his demagoguery President Trump again returned to attacking the media for its criticism of his response to the Charlotteville racist violence in which Heather Heyer a " caring and compassionate " young white woman who stood up against white supremacy and racism was killed and 19 others injured . Trump said he " wondered if the media loved the country? " and said he knows they don't " They are bad people " ( BBC 24/08 ).
Trump behaves like your classic dictator intolerant of any criticism, blaming and scapegoating the media for his own failure and incompetence, and politically aberrant behaviour.
Some Fiji media people ( and former Fiji media people ) would be quite familiar with that phenomenon.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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Rakesh Verma
7/9/2017 08:45:08 am

hi Rakesh verma Yeah true…with Instagram, we can post attractive images highlighting their products and drive sales through your affiliate URL…nice post neil

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