District must 'take care' of 2.1 billion VND in compensation for teacher who wins lawsuit

On the afternoon of November 7, a leader of the Dak Lak Department of Finance said that the Department is advising the Provincial People's Committee to issue a document responding to the proposal of the People's Committee of Krong Pak District regarding the request for additional funding to pay teachers whose contracts were terminated and to pay court fees to the State budget.

According to the leader of the Dak Lak Department of Finance, the People's Committee of Krong Pak District must arrange the cost of executing the judgment. Because the teachers whose labor contracts were terminated and who won the lawsuit against the People's Committee of Krong Pak District are not subject to compensation under the Law on State Compensation Liability.

Previously, based on the effective judgments and court fees paid to the State budget, on October 9, the People's Committee of Krong Pak District submitted a document to the People's Committee of Dak Lak Province and the Department of Finance requesting an additional amount of more than 2.1 billion VND (including interest) to pay teachers whose labor contracts were terminated in the area who won lawsuits against schools and the People's Committee of Krong Pak District (the unit with rights and obligations related to the lawsuits of teachers).

Huyện phải “tự lo” kinh phí 2,1 tỉ đồng bồi thường cho giáo viên thắng kiện - Ảnh 1. — The leader of the Dak Lak Department of Finance said that the People's Committee of Krong Pak District must arrange to execute the judgment and compensate the teachers who won the lawsuit.

Since 2021, many teachers whose labor contracts have been terminated have sued the school and the People's Committee of Krong Pak District in court. Of these, 5 teachers whose labor contracts were terminated by Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Secondary School (Krong Pak District) have filed a lawsuit, and the two-level People's Court in Dak Lak has sentenced Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Secondary School and the People's Committee of Krong Pak District to jointly compensate a total of more than 1.2 billion VND. Similarly, another teacher was also sentenced by the court to jointly compensate Ea Kly Secondary School and the People's Committee of Krong Pak District with more than 175 million VND.

As Thanh Nien reported, from 2011 to 2015, the People's Committee of Krong Pak District massively signed labor contracts without considering actual needs and staffing targets, leading to a surplus of more than 500 contract teachers at secondary, primary and preschool levels. After that, many contract teachers in this district lost their jobs.

In 2018, the People's Committee of Krong Pak District issued a notice forcing many contract teachers at schools in the area to quit their jobs, with the reason being that "previous recruitment was not in accordance with regulations, causing the number of teachers to exceed the quota assigned by superiors". Among the teachers forced to quit their jobs, 6 teachers filed a lawsuit against the district for recruiting but firing them illegally, causing them to lose their rights.

Among them, 5 former teachers at Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Secondary School, including: Nguyen Anh Duong, Nguyen Tuan Anh, Trinh Thi Bich Hanh, H'Dim Nie, Luong Van Chinh, filed a lawsuit. Another teacher who was forced to quit at Ea Kly Secondary School, Ms. Nguyen Thi Binh, also filed a lawsuit.

Both lawsuits were tried at first instance and at appeal. Accordingly, in April 2022, the Dak Lak Provincial People's Court issued a verdict holding Ea Kly Secondary School and the People's Committee of Krong Pak District jointly responsible for compensating Ms. Nguyen Thi Binh more than 175 million VND. In June 2022, the Dak Lak Provincial People's Court held Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Secondary School and the People's Committee of Krong Pak District jointly responsible for compensating nearly 1.3 billion VND to 5 teachers.

Although the lawsuit was declared over a year ago, the six teachers who were forced to quit have not yet received compensation.

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