Abuse Of Fixed Term Contracts In Some Schools
Correspondent | Monday November 7, 2016 17:45
The practice is prevalent in private schools where our investigations have revealed that some teachers have been teaching for close to two decades on at least two or one contract year contracts which have been habitually renewed for decades on the same or similar terms.BOSETU contends that the fact that the same teacher is hired on a fixed term contract for more than 10 years shows that there is a vacancy and the habitual renewal only goes to show that individual employee is discharging his job diligently.There is no good reason why some employers are abusing short term contracts
There is no reason why employers should hire employees on temporary basis to avoid gratuity because the Employment Act has been amended to pro rate terminal benefits. What is disheartening is that the employees are hired on short term contracts are unable to access financial facilities to access credit to procure houses and other benefits like vehicles because they are not hired on long term contracts where they can access loans.
Our investigations have further revealed that most private schools prohibit teachers to join teacher trade Unions like Bosetu because the owners of the said schools fear that once the teachers join Unions they will raise violation of labour rights which are prevalent in most private instituions.