Sana’a University teachers praise settlement [Archives:2008/1119/Local News]

SANA'A, Jan. 9 ) Teaching staff and assistants at Sana'a University are praising a settlement reached with the Ministry of Civil Services and Insurance regarding their numerous issues and concerns.

Abdullah Fare' Al-Azazi, who is in charge of culture and media for Sana'a University's Teachers Syndicate, declared that the two-month talks concluded today as both sides agreed to rectify the imbalances and infringements that accompanied the lengthy process of teachers accessing the 2005 wage strategy involving their settlements, promotions and hardship allowances.

He noted that they have agreed that teachers and assistants will be granted their rightful salary increase under a second wage strategy, in addition to the hardship allowance under 2005's Wages and Salaries Law No. 43, adding that the second strategy includes all Yemeni university teachers and assistants. The raise will be paid retroactively from October 2007.

Al-Azazi further indicated that the two sides will thoroughly discuss the employment and wages system regarding Yemeni university teaching staff and assistants. Such a system ensures academic positions while regulating the rights and obligations of those staffers.

He stressed that continuous follow-up by Prime Minister Ali Mujawar, in addition to great cooperation by Civil Service Minister Hamoud Khalid Al-Soufi and his deputy, Nabeel Shamsan, achieved positive outcomes, thus ensuring thorough remedies and solutions to the teaching staff's current issues.

The settlement ends a year of protests and talks conducted by government universities, Al-Azazi concluded, thanking all media outlets for interacting with the teaching staff by covering and thereby publicizing their struggles and activities.
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