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18 July 2017
RIYADH — Education Minister Ahmed Al-Issa has warned private and foreign schools from canceling the contract of Saudi teachers on the pretext that subsidies being paid to their salaries by the Human Resources Development Fund (Hadaf) have come to an end after five years.
The minister asked the schools to pay the monthly salaries of the Saudi teachers at their current level though the subsidies have stopped.
"The private and foreign schools should shoulder their responsibility toward nationalization of jobs. They should also benefit from the accumulated experience of Saudi teachers," he said.
A previous royal decree fixed the monthly salary of Saudi teachers in private and foreign schools to be SR5,000 plus SR600 as transport allowance.
To enable the schools to pay these salaries, Hadaf contributed an amount of SR2,000 for each male and female teacher.
After it had continued for five years, the contribution of the fund has now came to an end.
The ministry, in a recent circular, warned that it would not compensate the schools with new teachers subsidized by Hadaf if it was found out that the old teachers, whose salaries were subsidized for five years, were unjustly terminated.
After the Hadaf's five-year subsidies were stopped, some schools resorted to the trick of terminating Saudi teachers on the false ground that their educational performance was not up to the required standard.
Some schools terminated services of the teachers and signed new contracts with them so as to obtain subsidies from the fund.
A senior ministry official said this ploy did not go unnotice and added that several private and foreign schools that committed such violations were being investigated.
The official, who did not want to be identified, said a number of schools were closed down for this very reason.
RIYADH — Education Minister Ahmed Al-Issa has warned private and foreign schools from canceling the contract of Saudi teachers on the pretext that subsidies being paid to their salaries by the Human Resources Development Fund (Hadaf) have come to an end after five years.
The minister asked the schools to pay the monthly salaries of the Saudi teachers at their current level though the subsidies have stopped.
"The private and foreign schools should shoulder their responsibility toward nationalization of jobs. They should also benefit from the accumulated experience of Saudi teachers," he said.
A previous royal decree fixed the monthly salary of Saudi teachers in private and foreign schools to be SR5,000 plus SR600 as transport allowance.
To enable the schools to pay these salaries, Hadaf contributed an amount of SR2,000 for each male and female teacher.
After it had continued for five years, the contribution of the fund has now came to an end.
The ministry, in a recent circular, warned that it would not compensate the schools with new teachers subsidized by Hadaf if it was found out that the old teachers, whose salaries were subsidized for five years, were unjustly terminated.
After the Hadaf's five-year subsidies were stopped, some schools resorted to the trick of terminating Saudi teachers on the false ground that their educational performance was not up to the required standard.
Some schools terminated services of the teachers and signed new contracts with them so as to obtain subsidies from the fund.
A senior ministry official said this ploy did not go unnotice and added that several private and foreign schools that committed such violations were being investigated.
The official, who did not want to be identified, said a number of schools were closed down for this very reason.
© The Saudi Gazette 2017
