Career changers earn less in the teaching profession, but only a fraction of them manage to transition to the regular system.
The school system has been struggling with a teacher shortage for years. Politicians are desperately trying to counter this by any means necessary. Newcomers and students are deployed, retired teachers are reactivated and even militia members are recruited. But all this only helps so much when the bureaucratic monster gets in the way. NEOS education spokeswoman Martina Künsberg Sarre shows the problems with the help of a parliamentary question: Teachers who entered the profession with special contracts must accept financial deductions.
System with rigid and bureaucratic rules
“The rigid and bureaucratic rules in the school system make it impossible for the majority of these teachers to switch to a regular contract, even though they are urgently needed in the schools. Anyone who is in the old labor law cannot change at all, and obstacles are also placed in the way for the others.” Only some of them meet the requirements for a change.
Last year, only one in ten compulsory education teachers and one in twenty AHS or BHS teachers with a special contract were able to switch to a regular contract. There are currently 6,905 teachers working with special contracts and are therefore paid less than other teachers. The NEOS call for a rethink and the removal of unnecessary obstacles.
Source: Krone
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