The conversion of self-employed teachers employed in the evening, and not only, programs of the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth was examined on Tuesday by the Parliamentary Labour Committee.
"It is an issue that has been discussed for many years in the Education Committee of the Parliament," noted EDEK MP Andreas Apostolou.
"We have called on the Ministry of Labour to clarify its position and assume its own responsibilities, because it cannot control a private person if it employs its employees in the right ways and the right conditions, but the government itself has employees who work in its buildings with a clean, for us, employer-employee status, but refusing to pay them social security and forcing them to pay social security themselves as self-employed workers, with all that this entails for their labour rights," he said.
He said the Ministry of Education was committed to initiating a dialogue with the trade unions and guilds representing these workers, "but because the promises that have been made in recent years have been too many and there has been no solution to the issue, in addition to what will be discussed in any bodies between the Ministry and the trade unions, the issue will be discussed again in the Labour Committee and what we want is to have a definitive solution by the summer so that in September, with the start of the CNA
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