Stop/ Educators with a Master's degree have their salary reduced, the 2017 VKM does not apply

2023-04-20 21:14:12, Denoncim CNA

Stop/ Educators with a Master's degree have their salary reduced, the 2017

Some of the educators of the city of Vlora raise a concern about their payment, which they say has been reduced.

The program Stop on Tv Klan dealt with this issue and learned that it is about a VKM, according to which for the employment of educators after March 2017, there would not be a group salary supplement of 14 thousand new Lek, despite the fact that educators can have a Master of Science or Professional.

On the other hand, those who were employed before March 2017 benefit from this amount, even when they do not have additional studies.

"I am Elisabeta Isufi, I have been employed for 5 years as an educator in the city of Vlora with a Professional Master's degree and a Scientific Master's degree, and for 4 months I have been paid with a Scientific Master's degree, now my right to payment has been removed with 140 bases".

"My name is Rajmonda Nasufi, I finished preschool and Master's Professional, I moved from the city of Berat, parallel movement in October 2022 and I am not paid a salary of 140, it went to 110".

"My name is Aldona Muçaj, I have finished higher studies, lower preschool cycle, Professional Master. In 2012, I was appointed a teacher in the Selenicë kindergarten. In 2018, I made parallel moves and after 5 years they remind me and tell me that you were paid incorrectly, that you should have been paid with 110, not 140".

"I am Dorjana Banushaj, educator in kindergarten No. 2. In the month of February, the salary of the group was reduced from 140 to 110 with the claim that the degree is not recognized as DND and translated it is considered as Bachelor, this degree completed in 2003-2006".

"Estela Çepaj, kindergarten teacher. I have the same problem. Even though I started work in 2016. In February, I was verbally informed that my group salary was reduced from 140 to 110. The Master of Science is not recognized."

"The penalty is such that they tell us that if we were to continue this part, these complaints to ask for something that might be right for us, they told us that they would penalize us by keeping all the money for 5 years of work that I have as a kindergarten teacher. What guilt do we have for something that a law that came out in 2017 and starts to be implemented now in 2023"?

Regarding this concern, Stop turned to the Labor Inspectorate, where Inspector Alma Çelaj indicated that the control in the Municipality of Vlora has found several violations on the part of the municipality.

Inspector Alma Çelaj: Regarding the complaint made by the kindergarten teachers about the salary level, the group of inspectors conducted an administrative investigation of the complaint and came to the conclusion that the subject in the role of the employer, the Municipality of Vlora, changed the terms of the individual employment contract and made a notification preliminary. It is also evident that in the individual labor contract the salary elements are not defined in detail and the employees did not receive a document called salary calculation to find out about the level of salary they received at the end of the month. It has been established that for these children's kindergarten educators, there is a reduction in the salary level. Regarding these violations found during the inspection procedure,

The Director of Human Resources in this municipality, Laura Brinja, says that the reduction in the salary of educators has come as a result of the implementation of VKM 171, which should have been implemented since 2017, but was neglected.

Laura Brinja, director of human resources in Vlora Municipality: It is a 2017 MIA which explains how all educators are paid for the group salary. In her link she writes after March 1, 2017. Everyone who changes jobs, everyone who enters the education system for the first time will be paid according to a link that VKM has where the second group says it should only Bachelor's degree and for this degree they will be paid 110. This VKM should actually have been implemented as early as March 2017. It has not been implemented and to my knowledge it has not been implemented in many municipalities. It continued only according to the diploma, every educator received the salary according to the Bachelor's, when someone had a Master's, the Master's was recognized, that's how we continued. In the new entries from the portal for this year, the same method was applied again, the complaints started,

"Stop" has learned that even in the Municipality of Fier, payment is not made in accordance with the VKM of 2017.

Education specialist Ndriçim Mehmeti calls this differentiated payment method discriminatory.

Education expert Ndriçim Mehmeti: The VKM in my judgment is unfair, it must be said from the beginning that article 57 defines the Bachelor's as a closed cycle, which means that it takes so many years. And you have to pay it for 3 years for that 3-year-old and you can't pay it like with high school. Because he is paid the same as with high school. So the salary of the group should be the same and your show, which has a very large audience, has a great chance for the Prime Minister to find out and adjust it with the new salaries he is making. The fact of the transfer that you said, so if it comes from Berat to Vlora, from Vlora to Tirana, how is it possible that you are called a rookie, that is, for the first time. You are a teacher with the years of work that you carry, as everyone carries them. VKM is discriminatory. Because either you will tell him who did 1 year more Master to recognize the Master, or familiarity with that closed system it has. Otherwise, this is called inequality, discrimination, and for more in the case of the teacher, it is harassment./ tvklan