Since teachers in Hungary postponed their strike plans due to the Covid-19 pandemic, their working conditions have continued to worsen. The country’s two main trade unions in the education sector, PSZ and PDSZ, will now coordinate their action in order to address concerns over low wages, staff shortages and high workloads. According to the joint demands made, the projection base for teachers’ basic pay should be the current minimum wage, paid retroactively from 1 September; the guaranteed pay for non-teaching staff in education should also be increased retroactively from that date; and teachers’ working hours dedicated to education and teaching should not exceed 22 hours per week.
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