SOUTH AFRICAN TEACHERS ROBBED BY GOVERNMENT June 4, 2008
Posted by frostygirl in Education.trackback
The South African Department of Education employs many teachers on a “temporary” basis, these teachers fulfil their teaching duties at the schools they are sent to by the Department.
Apparently it has now become the norm to place these teachers and after they have worked for a month expecting to get paid, no pay arrives in their banking accounts. When they query the Department they receive a letter stating that they are “excess” and should not be at the school they were teaching at and that they must leave immediately without pay.
I understand that some of these temporary teachers have worked for months without receiving pay and only when they query the Department do they receive a similar letter as stated above.
The above practice seems illegal to me and I cannot help wondering why the “temporary” teachers, who have experienced the above, does not take the Department of Education to Court. I know that they do not belong to a Union, but surely they should have some recourse to highlight their plight!
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The SA Department of Education is a complete joke. They moan about the chronic shortage of teachers but then treat them like rubbish.
Perhaps they should adapt an independent teaching supply program, where supply teachers are contracted and paid through independent companies, not the government.
That I a wonderful idea Alex just wish we could make it happen!