The president of the Federation of Education Trade Unions Spiru Haret, Marius Nistor, says that beginning teachers should have a salary equivalent to the average salary in the economy, while the net salary of a late-career teacher should reach almost 7,000 lei per month, News.ro reports. Nistor says teachers have strongly rejected the government’s offer of “incentives” for new teachers and those working in disadvantaged areas, pointing out that teachers do not receive social assistance.

Answering a question on Sunday evening on B1 TV, what is the salary of education workers, Marius Nistor gave specific examples: a maximum of 2,000 lei for non-teaching staff (nurses, cooks, nurses, firefighters), 2,580 lei for the salary of a debutante teacher, to which an allowance is added for meals, reaching approximately 2,700 lei, almost 3,800 lei for a teacher with a teaching degree I and 25 years of experience, and 4,200 – 4,500 lei net for a late-career teacher.

“When the tariff plan was discussed at the level of the Ministry of Education, we started from the point of reference: the salary of a novice with a higher education should be equivalent to the average salary in the economy. What does this mean in pure numbers for a newbie? This will reach almost 4000 lei net from 2500-2700 lei. This will be the starting salary. And, categorically, you are coming to the end of your career, there is progressive growth, colleagues who would leave the system would reach somewhere around 6,900-7,000 lei in net salary. These are salaries,” says Marius Nistor, answering the question of what teachers’ salaries will be.

He notes that the teachers categorically rejected the idea of ​​stimulating certain categories of teaching staff, put forward by government officials at the discussions on Sunday.

“There was such a proposal from the governors, some incentives for novice teachers and our colleagues who worked in a social environment or in a more unfavorable environment, that is, isolated areas, with certain problems. Without offense, the reaction of our colleagues in the territory was very clear: we do not need this, we do not have social assistance, this is not what we are asking for now. (…) We are not on social assistance, we are busy in education. We do not accept this attitude. This is the reaction of most of our colleagues from the region,” added Marius Nistor.

Education unions announced on Sunday afternoon that a general strike in schools would take place from Monday, after Sunday’s talks with the government failed to reach an agreement.

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