Secondary and basic contractors offered with the Minister of Education to improve their status and ensure their rights

The Minister of Education and Higher Education, Rima Karami, held an expanded meeting with the Secondary Contractors Committee and the Committee of Contracting Professors in Basic Education headed by Hussein Saad and Matta Fawaz, to discuss their aspirations and needs within the framework of a joint action plan aimed at improving their job and social status, ensuring their legal rights, and enhancing their professional stability.

The Minister of Education, according to a statement, stressed, “The importance of cooperation and coordination between all parties for a better future for the educational sector, and that it works to meet the demands of contracting teachers, achieve justice in their rights, and work to develop the necessary solutions to ensure the continuity of the educational process and improve their quality.”
Then the two committees presented the action plan, which includes major axes, the most important of which are:
1- Installing the contracting professors:
Adherence to their legal right to installation, based on the years of contracting and social and economic suffering that they went through, especially in light of the economic crisis, the repercussions of the Corona and sacrifices during the Israeli Adwan on Lebanon. The plan emphasizes the necessity of adopting a transparent and fair mechanism based on training courses, allowing them to move to state owners, while maintaining their rights to install according to seniority. 2- The urgent demands:
Directing contracts to implementation immediately after the start of the academic year on September 15, 2025, and conducting transfers before the start of the year to ensure their administrative and financial stability, in order to avoid any societal or process crises. 3- Financial demands:
Raising the wages of the contract hour to reach 13 dollars for the basic contract and $ 24 for secondary contract, within the budget in 2026, with the inclusion of all the submission granted to the owners, from educational grants, health coverage, and payment of salaries during the summer. The plan also called for a modification of a decree instead of transportation to include every day, and it is calculated based on the distance from the house to school, instead of calculating it in a cut or for specific days.
4- Health demands:
Providing comprehensive health insurance, and coordination with the ministries of health and social security to issue healthy cards that include coverage in government and private hospitals, while ensuring that professors participate in health insurance in an optional and on their own account.
The rights of professors in the event of strikes:
Ensuring that the angel’s ties strike does not affect the rights of the contractors, with the demand that it include any increases or productivity that the Ministry will provide to the owners of the owners, also the contract professors.
Repeating contractual designations:
The call to adopt a unified naming “contracting with the Ministry of Education for teaching”, with the signing contracts for the professors who are used and the funds of parents, schools and municipalities in the morning working hours, and ensuring the rights of old professors to install according to seniority when conducting employment matches.
End of service:
Amending the end of the service account to be according to the last wage that the professor receives, after the inclusion of all previous presentations within the basis of the wage, to ensure their financial rights at the end of the service.
Regarding the professors of procedural materials, we asked us to put them at the expense of the ministry and cancel the contributions item to facilitate the arrest of their dues, unify their names, and raise the value of the hour reward in secondary education, such as the reward of the secondary contract.
The statement pointed out that “the meeting presented a law proposal aimed at organizing a match in parallel with training courses, allowing the contractors who have completed many years of service the opportunity to install in the public sector, taking into account their long experiences and excluding them from the age requirement, according to specific criteria that guarantee justice and equal opportunities.”
He stated that “the committee assured the Minister of Education the necessity of supporting the ministry and its full His Excellency these demands, and the need to work to formulate legal and executive procedures to achieve them, in a way that establishes justice, enhances the stability of teachers, and leads to raising the quality of education in Lebanon. Everyone agreed to continue communication and coordination, to ensure the implementation of decisions, and to invest these efforts in serving the educational sector, and achieving a better future for teachers and students alike. Certainly the importance of continuous cooperation and keenness to translate the demands into practical laws and procedures that guarantee the rights of teachers, and rise in the education sector in Lebanon.

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