Dubai: Kuwait’s Ministry of Education has suspended the salaries of nearly 600 teachers, who the ministry calls ‘the new stranded teachers’. They were supposed to be working in various educational districts, Al Anba daily reported.
Education sources said the ‘new stranded teachers’ are those who were working until the end of the first semester of 2020/2021 and did not begin work in the second semester.
The school districts had reportedly given them the deadline until yesterday, Sunday, before applying the rules and regulations for absenteeism.
Earlier last week, the Assistant Undersecretary for Public Education, Osama Al Sultan, announced that the salaries of teachers who left during the mid-year vacation of the last school year and are stranded in their countries will be suspended, adding that their names have been requested from the education administrations they are working in, Al Jarida reported.
Al Sultan said “due to the start of work for the second semester in the various educational stages, all administrations are required to submit a list of the names of expat workers, who did not start work in the second semester, and were working until the end of the first semester of the current academic year 2020/2021".
He noted that the details provided in the lists should include the person’s name, civil id number, specialisation, work centre, nationality, educational zone, and the reason for discontinuation.
