Gyeongbuk Office of Education and Gyeongbuk Teachers' Union Hold Policy Council... Discuss 6 Issues Including Leave of Absence and Dispatch Work

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jong-sik) announced that it held the '2024 First Half Gyeongbuk Office of Education-Gyeongbuk Teachers' Labor Union Policy Council' on the 26th at the Gyeongbuk Office of Education conference room, with 12 participants including the Director of Policy, responsible supervisors, staff, and executives from the Gyeongbuk Teachers' Labor Union (Chairperson Lee Mihee).

The policy council with the Gyeongbuk Teachers' Labor Union has been held twice a year since the collective agreement signed in August 2021, aiming to enhance teachers' professionalism and improve working conditions.

Gyeongbuk Office of Education and Gyeongbuk Teachers' Labor Union are holding a policy council meeting.

During this council, six major agenda items proposed by the Gyeongbuk Teachers' Labor Union were discussed: requests for approval of personal leave and dispatch assignments, raising the standard amount for substitute teacher allowances and establishing grounds for providing allowances during lunch hours, addressing the issue of teachers' opinions being omitted when gathering school feedback through official documents, requesting cooperation in deleting teachers' personal information from school websites and bulletin boards, resolving excessive teacher workloads during school sports team training camps, and issues related to teachers supervising students while driving vehicles during external events.

In particular, the council focused on concrete measures to expand opportunities for teacher capacity building through approval of personal leave and dispatch assignments, and on setting the standard amount and scope for substitute teacher allowances.

Additionally, the necessity of deleting teachers' personal information from school websites and bulletin boards for privacy protection was emphasized, and a proposal was made to provide manpower support to reduce teacher workloads during school sports team training camps.

Participants also listened to updates and reviews from the relevant departments, sought to understand the actual conditions at schools, fostered empathy for educational issues, and agreed to further strengthen cooperation in the future.

Lim Jong-sik, Superintendent of Gyeongbuk Office of Education, said, "This policy council was an important opportunity to align with the realities of the school field and respond closely to on-site demands," adding, "I hope that, based on mutual understanding, Gyeongbuk education will continue to advance together through ongoing cooperation."

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