Bras de fer scolaire : Le ministre Olivier Boucal défend la légalité des coupes de salaires
The Minister of Public Service, Olivier Boucal, asserted that the cuts made to teachers' salaries comply with "provisions related to the right to strike." Speaking during an interview on the program "Opinion" on Wal Fadjri this Sunday, the minister justified these measures by citing labor laws, while also mentioning the country's budgetary constraints.
"We continue to extend a hand (to the unions). Not everything can be settled at once, it would disrupt the balance of our public finances," the minister stated, while the Senegalese state has made deductions from February's revenues.
Teachers belonging to the G7, a confederation of the most representative unions in middle and high schools, have been staging alternating work stoppages for the past four months. They are demanding the implementation of agreements signed under the previous administration. However, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye is facing a complex economic situation.
From the unions' perspective, Ndongo Sarr, head of the G7, denounced the scale and imprecision of these measures: "The salary deductions range from 35,000 to 281,000 CFA francs. They even affect teachers who are not striking and those on maternity leave." According to him, these cuts sometimes exceed "more than a third of the salary."
As an indication, a non-tenured teacher in Senegal receives between 250,000 and 300,000 CFA francs, while the salary of tenured teachers can reach 800,000 CFA francs.
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