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Byju’s fires 500 employees over telephone calls, emails
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Byju’s fires 500 employees over telephone calls, emails

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Amid a funding crisis and a series of legal battles, troubled edtech firm Byju’s has fired 500 employees, including teachers. An employee with Byju’s said the company has been asking online teachers to move offline and teach at the company’s tuition centres and those who couldn’t do that are now being fired. When asked about layoffs, Byju’s spokesperson said, …

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Teachers protest for quick spouse transfers in Telangana
1 year, 3 months ago

Teachers protest for quick spouse transfers in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Teachers and employees held a protest in front of Pragathi Bhavan on Sunday, demanding immediate 'spouse transfers' as promised. Another protestor said that they would not relent until education minister Sabitha Indra Reddy put an end to their 'torture.' They have deliberately done nothing to vacate the stay order imposed by the High Court," said Harinakshi P, a teacher. …

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Some services hit as Karnataka government employees begin indefinite strike
1 year, 9 months ago

Some services hit as Karnataka government employees begin indefinite strike

The Hindu  

In an embarrassment to the government ahead of Assembly elections, about eight lakh employees and those working in aided institutions launched an indefinite strike, demanding pay revision, across Karnataka on March 1. Which services in Karnataka are affected Government and aided educational institutions shut with teachers joining the strike Preparatory examinations of class 10 Outpatient services in government hospitals shut …

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Delhi High Court Summons Finance And Urban Development Secretaries, MCD Commissioner Over Unpaid Salaries Of Employees, Teachers
1 year, 10 months ago

Delhi High Court Summons Finance And Urban Development Secretaries, MCD Commissioner Over Unpaid Salaries Of Employees, Teachers

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Monday summoned Finance and Urban Development Secretaries of the Delhi Government and Commissioner of Municipal Corporation of Delhi over failure to make payment of salaries to various employees, safaikaramcharis and teachers of the civic body. A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad said that it is unfortunate that class …

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Teachers\' arrest: Bandi Sanjay slams KCR
1 year, 11 months ago

Teachers\' arrest: Bandi Sanjay slams KCR

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar rallied in support of teachers by demanding an unequivocal apology from Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao for the arrest of women teachers who had marched to Pragati Bhavan to call for the repeal of GO 317, while stating that this order had torn teachers' families apart. If these teachers and other government employees …

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How recent killing of Pandits and their migration has affected quality teaching in Kashmir
1 year, 11 months ago

How recent killing of Pandits and their migration has affected quality teaching in Kashmir

Firstpost  

Kashmiri Pandits have been protesting and demanding relocation from the valley till the security situation improves. As the past horrifying pictures were still afresh, the new spate of targeted killings of Kashmiri pandit teachers, sent shockwaves among its community members. However, with the spate of new fresh killings by the militant group The Resistance Front, four pandit teachers have got …

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Venezuela’s teachers march for better pay amid soaring inflation
1 year, 11 months ago

Venezuela’s teachers march for better pay amid soaring inflation

Al Jazeera  

Even as Venezuela’s inflation reached an estimated 305 percent last year, gov’t did not adjust employee salaries. Teachers, retirees and workers’ unions have marched in at least six Venezuelan cities to demand better salaries as the government of President Nicolas Maduro faces renewed challenges in its attempt to fight inflation. “We need a living wage.” In the central state of …

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‘Only permanent employees should be there in govt.’
2 years, 3 months ago

‘Only permanent employees should be there in govt.’

The Hindu  

The Aam Aadmi Party will regularise contractual government employees wherever it forms the government, party national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday. “Wherever AAP forms the government, we are in favour of regularising contractual employees and we will regularise them and give them their rights,” Mr. Kejriwal said in a video statement, referring to a recent …

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Private school teachers entitled to gratuity: Supreme Court
2 years, 3 months ago

Private school teachers entitled to gratuity: Supreme Court

India Today  

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, ruled that private school teachers who have retired since April 1997 and completed five years of service will be entitled for the gratuity. The Supreme Court upheld the 2009 amendment to the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 and ruled that the benefit of gratuity would extend to teachers, including those employed in private schools. Private …

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Georgia School District Allows Some Of Its Employees To Carry Guns
2 years, 5 months ago

Georgia School District Allows Some Of Its Employees To Carry Guns

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING ATLANTA — Georgia’s second-largest school district on Thursday approved a policy allowing some employees who aren’t certified police officers carry guns in schools, but excluded teachers from those who can be armed. The 4-2 vote by suburban Atlanta’s Cobb County school board split along partisan lines as opponents including gun control activists shouted “Delay the vote!” and …

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J&K government posts Kashmiri Pandit teachers to ‘safer zones’ within Kashmir Valley
2 years, 6 months ago

J&K government posts Kashmiri Pandit teachers to ‘safer zones’ within Kashmir Valley

The Hindu  

The Jammu & Kashmir administration has started posting Kashmiri Pandit teachers in government schools to “safer zones” in a bid to discourage their desire to leave the Kashmir valley following a string of targeted attacks by militants on members of the minority community that left nine people dead in the past one month. Srinagar’s Chief Education Officer has posted 177 …

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Won\'t stop transfers without hearing government\'s contentions: Telangana HC
2 years, 11 months ago

Won\'t stop transfers without hearing government\'s contentions: Telangana HC

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday reiterated that it would not stay GO 317 issued by the state government, which prescribed norms for transfers of government employees and teachers. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili said without hearing the contentions of the government, it would not issue interim orders to stop …

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Completed transfers without resistance, claims Telangana govt
2 years, 11 months ago

Completed transfers without resistance, claims Telangana govt

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Despite initial resistance from employees and teachers besides a political outcry, the government claimed to have ‘successfully convinced’ them and completed the transfer process smoothly in all the districts. The government is in the process of allotting employees in all departments besides teachers to local cadres and new districts based on new zonal system since the second week of …

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Bhatti exhorts government staff to stage stirs against GO 317
2 years, 11 months ago

Bhatti exhorts government staff to stage stirs against GO 317

Deccan Chronicle  

Khammam: Congress Legislature Party leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said the TRS government had given ‘displaced person’ status to the employees in the state with the false government orders. Addressing a press conference along with the leaders of State Teachers Federation here on Sunday, Bhatti said the government presented the gift to the employees for achieving statehood for Telangana by doing …

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Confronted with losing their jobs, 99% of LAUSD teachers meet COVID-19 vaccine requirements
3 years, 2 months ago

Confronted with losing their jobs, 99% of LAUSD teachers meet COVID-19 vaccine requirements

LA Times  

A nurse gives a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shot to a Los Angeles school employee. “I am heartened that the vast majority of our L.A. Unified staff stepped up and got vaccinated to protect themselves, their families and our schools from COVID-19,” said school board President Kelly Gonez. “I appreciate the work our entire system has done to provide accurate information about …

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DU Teachers Strike Against Non-payment of Salaries, DUTA Slams Delhi Govt for Offering 'Flimsy Excuses'
4 years, 3 months ago

DU Teachers Strike Against Non-payment of Salaries, DUTA Slams Delhi Govt for Offering 'Flimsy Excuses'

News 18  

Delhi University teachers on Wednesday held a strike to protest against the alleged non-payment of salaries to employees of 12 varsity colleges fully funded by the city government for the last five months. “The obdurate position taken by the government, offering flimsy excuses for not releasing grants, has forced teachers to strike work for three days as they are at …

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Centre Issues SOPs for Reopening of Schools for Classes 9-12 on Voluntary Basis from September 21
4 years, 3 months ago

Centre Issues SOPs for Reopening of Schools for Classes 9-12 on Voluntary Basis from September 21

News 18  

Disallowing sharing of notebooks, pens/pencils, water bottles, etc, among students, prohibition of assemblies and sports, encouraging online learning, entry of asymptomatic persons are some of the guidelines from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for the partial reopening of schools for students of classes 9-12 from September 21 on a voluntary basis. Weather permitting, outdoor spaces may be utilised …

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