The Program of the XXIV Constitutional Government provides for the recovery of teachers’ service time over five years, accounting annually for 20% of the six years, six months and 23 days.
The measure was already foreseen in the electoral program of the Democratic Alliance (which included the PSD, CDS-PP and PPM) and is now included in the Government Program, delivered today by the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Pedro Duarte, to the President of the Assembly of the Republic, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco.
In a chapter dedicated to education and training, the executive begins by stating that the previous government failed to implement reformist solutions and considers it “imperative to find a response to the just demands of teachers”.
The answer to one of the main demands – the accounting of the six years, six months and 23 days of frozen service still to be recovered – will be given “throughout the legislature, at the rate of 20% per year”, the document states.
