With the article numbered 44-5 in the regulation, prevents teachers who resign from their institutions to work in any institution or school within 1 year. Institutions that use this article as an opportunity, abuse the personal rights of teachers. Article 44 of the regulation titled ‘Regulation on Private Education Institutions of the Ministry of National Education’ published in the Official Gazette in 2012, which specifically deals with the rights of teachers working in special education and rehabilitation centers, such as working and resigning rights, ties the hands of teachers working in special education and rehabilitation centers. According to the regulation, if the teacher resigns, he/she is prevented from working in another institution for 1 year. This article causes teachers to interpret “the slavery article of the year 2021”.
THE REGULATION HAS BEEN A TOOL OF PRESSURE AND MOBBING
In the regulation, it is stated that the teachers of the institutions who leave their duties will not be assigned to any institution for 1 year. On the other hand, institutions can use this article as a tool of pressure and mobbing on teachers. While teachers are reacting to the inclusion of such an article in the regulation that determines the rights of teachers, they call on the Ministry of National Education (MEB) to abolish this regulation and end the victimization.
“TEACHERS HAVE BEEN DEFENSELESS WITH THE REGULATION”
Ceyhun Bozdağ, Chairman of the Private Education and Rehabilitation Teachers Association, who made evaluations in our newspaper regarding to the article in the regulation stating that one can not be employed in institutions for 1 year after resignation, underlined that thanks to the regulation, teacher can be exposed to pressure and mobbing, and said, “Regulation of Private Education Institutions, dismissal from work, article 44-5; It is an article that leaves the educator unemployed for a year and opens the door to arbitrary treatments of institution owners. With the article that they cannot work for one year in the institutions affilliated to the MEB, educators have been vulnerable to unlawful coercions such as mobbing, arbitrary treatment, being employed outside of the job description that may occur. The legal ground has been prepared for the abuses of the institution owners.”
“ARRANGEMENTS MUST BE MADE TO RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEES”
Expressing that teachers are faced with the threat of being unemployed for 1 year, Bozdağ pointed out that the regulation gave power to the institution, “If two teachers in the same institution resign for the same reason, the owner of the institution may impose a one-year working restriction on one and not the other. Regulation should not be left to anyone’s mercy and conscience. As educators and teachers working in private education and rehabilitation centers, we demand that the MEB and the General Directorate of Private Education Institutions enact laws and regulations and make necessary arrangements to protect the rights of employees under the humanitarian conditions,” he stated.