Education Secretary Zorisha Hackett says leave classification for teachers is being dealt with. This comes as TTUTA Tobago officer Bradon Roberts is calling out the secretary on the matter. More in this report.
00:00There was devolution of power about a month or so ago and so right now through the office of the chief administrator,
00:06the extended leave and different types of leave that were normally not done through the office of the Division of Education,
00:12through the Secretary of Education, everything outside of the regular occasional and the sick had to go to the desk of a Minister of Education
00:19and so that was one of the first areas we asked Minister and the Prime Minister to look into for us.
00:25Secretary Hackett said the Minister of Education is aware of the matter.
00:29And Minister Saddam Hussein was also very much instrumental in having us sit down with Minister Maraj as well,
00:36for us to sit down and go through the Act, the Constitution, all the guidelines, the teachers' regs that we use through Teaching Service Commission
00:43and actually sit down and take our time going through, you know, how do we get away from all these bureaucratic processes
00:50that, you know, put our Tobago teachers at a disadvantage.
00:53Hackett said leave classification is being done in Tobago.
00:56So right now, those leaves are classified in Tobago. We're very happy.
01:00It saves a lot of time and we don't have that challenge of teachers retiring and, you know,
01:05they'll leave still unclassified to be able to give them their benefits at the end of their tenure.
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