ISLAMABAD: The Education Ministry is blatantly violating the government’s labour policy by paying Rs 6,000 in salary to its employees working on contractual basis, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to the labour policy, the minimum salary of workers should not be less than Rs 7,000 per month but two attached departments of the Education Ministry were openly violating the labour policy.
This sheer violation of government rules right under the nose of Parliament House goes unabated as Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) is paying only Rs 6,000 per month to the highly qualified teachers working on contractual basis. Similarly, another attached Education Ministry department, the Educational Academy of Planning and Management (EAPAM), was paying Rs 4,000 to 5,000 to its class-four contract employees.
During the visit to various schools in the capital city, teachers working on contract came up with a plethora of complaints against the FDE high-ups for not giving them the government announced package. “I’m astonished at the government’s failure to implement its own decision regarding the labour policy that was announced loud and clear by none other than the prime minister himself,” a teacher said on condition of anonymity. The teachers concerned have been working on contractual basis for the last many years and FDE has been using delaying tactics to give them permanent jobs.
