Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić spoke today in Kovačica about the strike of education workers and the payment of reduced salaries to those who did not hold classes last month. He emphasized that those who received reduced salaries will receive the full amount when they make up the classes.
“They thought we would give them full pay… And now that it has happened that they didn’t receive full pay, and they will receive it and it will be compensated the moment they make up the classes, they found themselves in shock, as if they had somehow imagined they have a right to everything,” said Vučić, who is visiting the South Banat District today.
Education workers across Serbia, due to a weeks-long strike, received completely different amounts of the first part of their February salary the day before yesterday, March 6th, and in a large number of institutions, teachers who have been on strike since January 20th received zero dinars.
In a large number of elementary and secondary schools across Serbia, the suspension of classes has been ongoing since the end of January. Teachers working in schools where there have been no classes since the beginning of the second semester mostly did not receive the first part of their February salary.
The payment, namely, depended on the calculations that the principals sent to the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance, and differences in payments exist even among teachers working in the same school.
Source: Nova, Photo: Printscreen RTS