The Minister of National Education specified, Thursday evening on France 2, that the increase in wages promised for teachers would intervene in September 2023.
Le Monde with AFP
Back to school should take place “in suitable conditions” but “not optimal”, said Thursday, August 25, in the evening, the Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, adding that the increase in wages promised for Teachers would only intervene in September 2023.
“Back to school is announced in conditions fairly similar to last year when the conditions have deteriorated,” said the minister on France 2, referring to the shortage of teachers who led to the Hiring of “3,000 contract workers”.
“We have difficulties in recruiting titular teachers,” said the minister. “We have to do with the situation that is tense, we do at best,” he said, adding that these contract workers represented 0.3 % of the total number of teachers.
“It’s a little too much, I recognize it very willingly, but we do the best possible to train them, accompany them,” detailed the minister. Despite these recruitments, there are still 3,000 teachers for the start of the school year.
“Back to school is announced in suitable conditions, I would not say optimal”, he continued, deeming necessary to make the profession “more attractive”. To achieve this, the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, announced earlier in the day than the revaluation of teachers’ salaries would be “prosecuted”, so that none of them begins his career “within 2 000 euros net “per month. Currently, the 2,000 euros net are reached at step 8 on the wage grid (between thirteen and fourteen years of seniority).
The Minister of National Education also added:
We will make proposals for both career entry, but also for career environments which are also problematic. And then other proposals, because the reasons why the profession is less attractive than formerly are not only salary. The President of the Republic has spoken of 10 % increase in remuneration [additional], we will exchange this fall [with union organizations] to specify the conditions of this increase.