In a meeting held by the CDT union’s technical committee responsible for drafting the proposed statute with representatives from the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation on Friday, August 2nd, starting at 9:30 AM at the Human Resources Directorate headquarters, over twenty articles were discussed and refined.
According to a statement from the national office of the National Union of Higher Education and University Housing Employees, which “ELKhabariya” newspaper has a copy of, the discussed and refined articles included “counting the year of retraining for promotion by choice and professional examination” and “adopting certified and continuous training among promotion criteria with clarification of its nature in the statute and its implementation through a decision by the government authority in charge of higher education.”
Additionally, the articles addressed “relying solely on the fast track for rank promotion, adopting two years for promotion in the ranks for the excellent and exceptional grades,” “promotion outside the quota occurs after being listed for the 3rd time in the annual promotion schedule,” and “agreeing to calculate seniority for promotion by professional examination until December 31 of the year in which the exam is held.”
Furthermore, the agreement included “prioritizing the results of promotion by choice over the professional examination” and “involving the most representative unions in preparing and drafting government authority decisions stipulated in the statute’s articles.”
Regarding allowances, the meeting discussed “establishing a new allowance for management and pedagogical support in the statutory allowances alongside other official allowances for joint staff (allowance for progression, allowance for occupational hazards, technical allowance, burden allowance, supervisory allowance…).”
As for lump-sum allowances, according to the statement, there was an “agreement to include lump-sum allowances in the statute as follows: allowance for registration process, supervision allowance, allowance for scientific research projects and continuous training, performance allowance, facilitated timing allowance, mobility allowance, permanence allowance, and the 13th-month bonus: an annual financial grant equivalent to the net salary of the last month, half paid in June and the other half in December.”
It was agreed to “retain all statutory and supplementary allowances after rearranging the concerned person under the new statute. The transition grant to the new statute equals the average net salary of higher education employees for six months.”
Additionally, “assigning notional seniority for certain categories of employees ranging between 7 years and 2 years for administrative and technical assistants, educational and joint staff employed between 1980 and 2006.”
Promotion by qualification was also discussed, particularly the topic of “promoting PhD holders through an internal competition over two years, and promoting non-PhD certificate holders similarly through an internal competition, establishing it as a promotion mechanism as is done in other ministerial sectors.”
Furthermore, there was discussion about laboratory attendants with an “agreement to add a laboratory framework including technicians, engineers, educational attachés, and administrators working in laboratories,” according to the same statement.
