SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 25. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands has ratified this Monday with trade union and employer representatives of the concerted education an agreement that includes five measures for the next school year in terms of salary, nursing leave, school hours of the management teams, teacher replacements and union releases, and four others, of a general nature, which will begin to negotiate from October this year ahead of the next educational concert that will govern from the 2023-2024 to 2028-2029 academic year.
For the regional department, the document was signed by the area counselor, Manuela Armas; the general director of Personnel, Fidel Benigno Trujillo, and the general director of Centers, Infrastructure and Educational Promotion, Laly González.
For the employer organizations, the president of CECE, Víctor Arocas, has signed the text; the representative of CEOE-Educational Companies, Jesús Villafruela; the regional president of FERE-CECA Escuelas Católicas, Pedro Luis Rodríguez, and the counselor of UECOE, Carlos Sierra, while the secretary general of the Federation of Education of the Canary Islands CCOO, José Ramón Barroso, the head of FSIE, did so for the trade union organizations. Canaria, María Dolores Medina, and the secretary general of UGT Canarias Public Services, Francisco Javier Bautista.
Among the novelties that will come into force in the next school year is the salary increase for teachers in concerted education, whose comparison with the public one will go from the current 90% to 91%.
This increase will take effect from January 1, 2023 without retroactive effects.
On the other hand, a maximum of up to 21 calendar days of nursing leave is established for teaching staff who accumulate it in full days, as provided in their collective agreement, and financing is authorized from the start of the leave until the reincorporation or, where appropriate, until the end of the ordinary activities of the school year.
On the other hand, the management teams of the centers will have a reduction in teaching hours that will range between five and 15 hours depending on the number of concerted units of each school.
Thus, it will be reduced by five teaching hours when the units are up to 15; eight hours, when there are up to 30; 10 hours, if they are up to 45 units; 12 hours, with a limit of 60, and 15 hours, starting at 61.
In addition, the signed agreement contemplates that teacher absences that give rise to substitution may be authorized during the period of ordinary activities of the school year, that is, from September 1 to June 30 of the following year.
The document also states that union releases will continue to be nine and that the number for each plant will be updated with effect from September 1 of this year in accordance with the certification made by the Mediation, Arbitration and Conciliation Service (SEMAC) on the result. of the union elections in the concerted centers in the management area of the Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports as of December 31, 2021.
In any case, the releases may increase during the 2022-2023 school year to 15 as soon as the three union organizations communicate to the corresponding employer the desire to accumulate the hours of their union delegates, as established in the VII Collective Agreement of Companies of Private Education Sustained Totally or Partially with Public Funds.
Once this procedure has been carried out, a negotiating table will be convened to establish the bases for the expansion.
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In this way, the improvement of the concerted unit ratio per teacher in Infant and Primary is contemplated, going from the current 1.17 to 1.20 in the 2025-2026 academic year.
This increase will be made by raising the ratio to 1.18 for the 2023-2024 academic year, to 1.19 for the 2024-2025 academic year, and to 1.20 from the 2025-2026 academic year.
It is also agreed that the administration will finance for each educational center, and for each concerted unit in Infant and Primary, 30 minutes per week of orientation in accordance with the procedure established for this purpose.
Another aspect to be negotiated in October is the updating of the annual procedure for renewing the financing of the contracting of specialist teaching staff in Therapeutic Pedagogy for centers with nine or more concerted units, disregarding the prior request by the school, which is only It will require those with fewer than nine units and those above that limit to apply for additional funding for a second or more specialists.
In both cases, the authorization will be subject to a favorable report from the Directorate General for Planning, Innovation and Quality regarding the need to grant this resource, and from the Directorate General for Personnel regarding the existence of budget availability.
Likewise, it is agreed to negotiate the salary improvement of the teaching staff through the corrective index in an annual point from the year 2023 and up to a maximum of five points, passing this remuneration concept from the current 90% to 95% for the year 2027.
