Hundreds of teachers demand improving their employment status

Hundreds of teachers organized a protest outside of the Government building in Kasbah Square in capital Tunis, to demand improving their employment status. The protesters are teachers who the ministry contracts with each semester, most of them have been working with the ministry for more than 4 years.

The protesters strongly denounced what they considered supervisory authority’s denial of their right to appointment, rejecting the statements of the Minister of Education, which they described as unacceptable threat.

Tunisian Minister of Education had asked the teachers earlier to return to work or they will be dismissed and compensated. The school year, which began on September 15, has been facing difficulties, as hundreds of thousands of students did not enroll this year, according to union sources.