The value of the holiday vouchers and the recovery of the amounts won in the court whose payment was staggered for five years created dissatisfaction among the teachers. Many say they will refuse the tickets, considering the amount offered in 2025.
Teachers say they give up holiday voids, but also on vacation in Romania: Archive
Almost two years after the strike in pre -university education that should have changed things in terms of remuneration, teachers have reasons for dissatisfaction again. They did not receive before Easter, as it happened in previous years, the installment of the money earned in court, and the amount of holiday vouchers decreased, for 2025, from 1,600 lei to 800 (of which, as a result of the tax payment, they remain 640 and can benefit from them only if they are willing to spend at least 800 lei).
In the social groups, most of the teachers who expressed their opinion have announced that they will refuse to request the 800 lei and question if the problem becomes one of the operators in the hospitality industry, who are based on these tickets. As for the recovery of the amounts that the state should pay, teachers expect to receive explanations of the type “not money”.
“Unfortunately this year this convention has not been respected”
The teachers have to receive considerable amounts in the debt account that the state has towards them as a result of the correct non-application of the regulations regarding the remuneration before 2022. It was reached these amounts because either the teachers did not receive the increased salaries as provided for by the framework law of the public system (L 153/2017), or some increases, or some increases, Delayed, which caused the teachers to act in court. Because processes were won on the treadmill, the government decided to issue unitary regulations, recognizing the debt to the teachers and stagging the payment of the rights that were due to them for a period of five years, starting in 2022. In the first year the teachers were given 5%of the total outstanding amount, in 2023, in 2024, in 20%, in 20%, in 20%, As in 2026, in the last year of payment, to receive 35% of the total recovered from the state.
Each year this annual installment was paid to the teachers until the Easter holidays, even if, right, GEO 48/2022 provides for the payment of the annual unique installment until June 30. This year the payment of the tranche was not made before Easter, which alerted the teachers, who have begun to ask, on the social groups, what happens and if this money will come.
“It took 25%-the fourth installment of the rates that the ordinaries made us! We all pay whole and rates and fines and invoices and the hell and they will give us with the crumb! And that is frozen, postponed, canceled!”, they reported the teachers. “They went with the train … Tuc-tuc, Tuc-Tuc …”, The comments began to flow. “Even after 10 years we will not receive them. It seems that only the teachers applied the ordinance. The other categories of budgets received the rights after only one month from the application of the ordinance because they have representatives to fight for their rights.” He continued the discussion on a socializing group dedicated to teachers.
The Secretary General of the Federation of Trade Unions “Spiru Haret”, Prof. Ionel Barbu, said for “Adevărul” that “The rule so far was for these payments to be made in the month before the month in which Easter is”. “Unfortunately this year this convention was no longer respected. We waited not the month before the month in which it was the Orthodox Easter and Catholic Easter, but even in the Moon with Easter. Because on 20, the salaries being paid in education on 14, there was enough time. From the answers that we received from the Ministry of Education, Fiscal quarterization (…) Sure, I understand that they are caught for the first fiscal semester, so this means that this installment would be paid at the latest in June.said Barbu.
These differences benefit most of the education personnel, being both teachers and auxiliary teaching staff, the annual tranche being rising and can even exceed (depending on the components of the salary to be recovered, calculated for each situation) the level of a net monthly salary.
Holiday vouchers, a benefit that many will be missing under the given conditions
The granting of holiday vouchers is also intensely commented in the online environment, but not only, the trade union leader Ionel Barbu stating that many of the teachers are expected to give up this benefit. Why? Because the amount this year is only 640 lei net, out of the 800 gross lei granted by the state. In order to benefit from the 640 lei, the beneficiary employees must ask for this money and, moreover, add another 800 lei for the payment of services on vacation. Many consider the amount and the fact that they are asked for a personal contribution as a play.
“We are at home and do the better planning for the next school year. It’s one of the comments.
“To put them in the back, I do not want them anymore. Maybe this and I follow, to cause us to refuse them. – It’s another opinion.
“I notice that the educational unions did nothing to avoid this offense of
“I also refuse! It is a beating! He gives me 800 lei, then he takes 200 lei tax, then I have to get out of pocket 800 lei … no! It is not normal! I categorically refuse the voucher! I think all teachers should boycott such financial humiliations”, commented on another teacher.
“A little more than nothing. Do I get gas?! ”, The more relaxed comments came.
“I pray you nice not to make fun of us anymore! Battle, where to go with 800 lei, to the first grocery store? To put 800 lei, to bring you an invoice of 1,600 lei. There are no 800 lei, after tax. We should be united and refuse this
Other teachers also raised the problem of the services offered, considering that the refusal of the budget to accept these very small amounts for which they must add money, the condition of being spent in the country, will bring great problems to those in the hospitality industry.
“However, the hotels and pensions that accept payment with the holiday card have 5 -star prices and conditions,” the potential beneficiaries of the vouchers commented. “In these conditions, the hell does not go on the coast or in the mountains. It was something that stimulated the economy and even many budgets chose Romania, even though in addition to 1,600 lei they spent as much as,” another commentator drew attention.
“I am convinced that there will be colleagues who will give up”said the ESC secretary “Spiru Haret”, Ionel Barbu. He stated that clear figures about the number of those who will opt to receive these vouchers will be available after approving the rules and after the employees who meet the conditions will submit the applications, if they agree to do their vacation in Romania and to contribute 800 lei to receive the 800 (taxable) from the state.
