Thousands Of Teachers Resort To Local And International Courts To Obtain Rights

Corroborating the news item published on July 14 by Al-Seyassah daily titled ‘Thousands of teachers resort to local and international courts to obtain rights’, several expatriate teachers including those whose contracts have ended, others still on their jobs, and those filing for resignation have taken the first step to sue the Ministry of Education collectively in The Hague and Geneva.

Sources said the first batch of complaints was filed by 104 expatriate teachers from different nationalities, and the Human Rights Organization in Geneva has received them.

They explained the teachers have taken the step based on what they call human rights abuses resulting from racial discrimination. The teachers lamented their rights as stated in the items of the contracts signed with the ministry, were not fulfilled.

Sources stressed that additional complaints and lawsuits are on the way. They noted the lawsuits will be presented batches; each batch constituting about 100 cases. They maintained the teachers will never renounce their rights in terms of reduced housing allowance, retroactive enforcement of the housing regulation for female teachers, not forgetting financial and moral damages suffered in the midst of their Kuwaiti counterparts through discrimination.

 

SOURCE : ARABTIMES

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