01-07-16 School cleaning ladies to receive back pay

The Foundation for Youth and Lifelong Learning today began disbursing funds to all school boards, to cover the wages of school cleaning staff for the May-June, 2016 period. The procedure will be completed by 7 July.

Consequently, for the 2015-2016 school year, the total arrears to school boards, which are responsible for concluding contracts with cleaning staff service providers or cleaning teams at primary and secondary schools, which are not covered by cleaning staff with permanent contracts, in accordance with the decision of the former ministry of culture, education and religion (K1/145092/16-09-2015, Government Gazette 2052 volume 2), in which the Foundation for Youth and Lifelong Learning was assigned the responsibility for funding school board.