What Tet for school staff?

School staff suffer many disadvantages

I know Ms. D., a catering staff (contracted work) at an elementary school in Da Lat City, is in charge of cooking for boarding students. As a single mother with two young children, Ms. D. also has to earn extra money by selling grilled rice paper at night at Xuan Huong Lake to tourists.

On the last day of the year, looking at the list of additional income from the school without her name or the names of the sisters in the catering team, Ms. D. was moved, feeling sorry for herself and worried about where to find money to spend for her family and children during the upcoming Tet holiday. For Ms. D., Tet became a source of anxiety and obsession.

As for Mr. LB (47 years old), a security guard at a boarding school for ethnic minorities in Lam Dong province, he has no wife or children and has not returned to his hometown in Ha Tinh for Tet for more than 10 years. Mr. B. said he is used to celebrating Tet in a spacious school, alone.

Although the contract employee is not on the list of employees who receive additional income, the school has a support fund for him. This helps Mr. B., who is away from home during Tet, feel less sad and lonely when he feels that he is not "left out" of the joy of the agency, and has a little extra money to cover the Tet holiday.

According to Decree 68 of 2000 of the Government, security guards, catering staff, and school janitors in kindergartens, primary schools, ethnic boarding schools, etc. will be transferred to a contract-based working regime.

Although they received a fixed salary according to the contract, no additional income at the end of the year was agreed upon when signing the labor contract. However, with a low salary, just enough to cover daily expenses, school staff have to suffer many disadvantages.

Catering staff at a primary school in Ho Chi Minh City prepare meals for students.

From the management perspective, it is also difficult to include contract employees in the list of additional income in the internal spending regulations to enjoy collective benefits. Because the board of directors is afraid of the risk of budget deficit of the school; not to mention the balance between salaries and bonuses between different job positions to be fair and reasonable.

Catering staff serving meals to students

In theory, it would be difficult to solve the problem of paying extra income to school workers during Tet. Even the union would have difficulty extracting funds for its own use, because the union’s budget is actually the money contributed by all members, and cannot be spent on priority. Not to mention, the salary of a newly graduated teacher is lower than the monthly salary of an employee.

Therefore, this requires flexibility and creativity in the spirit of "helping each other". Some schools encourage staff and teachers with additional income at the end of the year to contribute a little and use it to give to individuals in difficult circumstances during Tet, this is a good way. Or the school provides support from the school's welfare fund.

In some places, schools mobilize other resources such as asking for support from higher-level unions and well-intentioned social organizations with the aim of ensuring that all union members in the school have a warm spring, both materially and emotionally with colleagues.

Spring brings joy and hope at the beginning of the year. I hope that schools will be truly flexible and humane in calculating how to spend additional income for workers with difficult circumstances in agencies and units, so that everyone can fully enjoy the joy of the new spring. This is also an important factor in creating a happy school for everyone.

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