Morocco Moves to Fire Striking Contract Teachers, Threatens Replacements

According to Said Amzazi, "by decision of the government, a dismissal procedure has been initiated against this category of teacher-executives who claim to form coordinations, hinder the normal course of the public service and undermine the right of students to schooling."

As for the trainee teachers of the Regional Education and Training Centers (CREF) encouraged to continue the strike, they will be replaced by candidates from the waiting list, the minister said, adding that they have signed the training commitment which stipulates that any absence exceeding five days will result in the application of this procedure by the academies.

As for the teachers forced to abandon the classrooms, they can, according to the minister, resume classes without being bothered but the work stoppage will result in a salary deduction.

For Amzazi, there is no longer any need to talk about contractualization, since this recruitment method has been definitively abandoned after the approval, by the boards of directors of the AREF gathered on March 13 in an extraordinary session, of the end of all provisions referring to "contractualization".

Assuring that "these executives are now civil servants within the framework of the regional civil service," the minister recalled the content of the agreement signed which provides for professional stability, job security, retirement due to serious illness, the right to promotion in the scale and echelon throughout their career and of course tenure.