Pay rise for teachers to be debated by government by end of summer holidays

The government is set to debate a pay rise for teachers and other school staff by the end of the summer holidays, Education Minister Kateřina Valachová said on Wednesday after a meeting with school union representatives and leaders of the coalition parties. The government previously agreed to raise teachers’ salaries by 8.0 percent as of January 2017, but the unions were negotiating a possibile increase in wages this year. Finance Minister Andrej Babiš said after Wednesday’s meeting that he was going to search for more money in the budget to raise the wages of teachers and other school staff already in September.

Author: Ruth Fraňková