With just a day to go before the school year is due to begin, agreement has been reached between the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education, and the Israel Teachers Union, and Israel’s schools will open tomorrow on schedule. Following the agreement, the hearing set down for this morning before the Labor Court on a petition for an order compelling teachers to turn up to work tomorrow has been cancelled.
Under the agreement, teachers have obtained pay rises and school principals have been given more discretion over teachers’ pay, while school vacations have to some extent been adjusted to be more in line with vacation days in the economy.
The starting salary for teachers has been raised to NIS 9,000 monthly, while veteran teachers will receive at least an extra NIS 1,100, and teachers will receive a bonus of NIS 10,000 if they remain three years in the system.
Salaries for school principals will start at NIS 19,000 monthly. Principals will be able to reward outstanding staff members with salary top-ups of NIS 400-1,000, and will for the first time be able to hire specialist teachers from outside the education system on personal contracts.
Minister of Finance Avigdor Liberman’s promise to adjust school vacations has been cut back somewhat because of fierce opposition from the union. Under the agreement, educational institutions will now work on the day following a Jewish holiday, on Lag Ba’omer, and on Ta’anit Esther (the day before the Purim holiday). Instead of these days, schools will be closed during the four days between Yom Kippur and the Sukkot holiday, and teachers will be given two vacation days at their own choice. “Summer school” will be extended to the end of July, and will be expanded to include grade 4.
There will be extra payments for special tasks within schools, and the minimum scope of a teaching post will gradually be raised to 100%. Dismissal procedures for teachers will be streamlined, and, most importantly, the agreement stipulates that there will be no teachers’ strikes before 2026.
Published by Globes, Israel business news – en.globes.co.il – on August 31, 2022.
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