“I never said that we would touch the wages of teachers”
“The big mass (spending) is the salaries (teachers),” said the economist. “Some of these are paid on credit. We need a reflection on these wages, on their indexing. We should have already done so in the past, but it is not popular,” added Mr. Hindriks.
The indexing of teacher wages will be well delayed by an additional month
Surveyed by the socialist to find out if it was the position of the government, Ms. Degryse clearly nuanced things. “The job of this group of experts is to have ideas. But it is the government that will make decisions,” she insisted.
As for an index jump potential, Ms. Degryse recalled that any decision in this area was federal, not the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
On Monday in the Parliament Committee, the Minister-President had detailed before the deputies the budgetary adjusted for 2025, repeating on this occasion the need to reduce the deficit of the entity to preserve its borrowing capacity.
“I never said that we would touch the wages of teachers. (…) What I said is that there was a medium -term risk for our deficit. This is our priority,” insisted the UCCLOISE.
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As for the project for the revaluation of teacher’s remuneration, Ms. Degryse said on Wednesday that the government is currently studying the feasibility of creating a new salary scale for teachers of fundamental and lower secondary education, as stipulated in the MR-Engagé majority agreement.
