A three-year salary dispute between the Government and Israel’s high school teachers was finally settled here today. Abba Eban, Minister of Education, and the heads of the Teachers Association, initialed an agreement on salaries, providing for wage increases as well as certain fringe benefits for the teachers in the secondary schools.
The agreement will be submitted to the Teachers Association Council for a vote next week, but was already hailed by Mr. Eban today as “the beginning of a period of cooperation, ending a three-year period of instability in secondary education.”
High school teachers will receive increases ranging from 25 pounds ($14,000) to sixty pounds ($33.60) monthly. They will also get further increments over a six percent raise if such an increment is granted to the engineers in public institutions now on strike for higher wages.
In addition, a Joint fund will be established to help high school teachers to continue advance studies. This fund will enable teachers to take a sabbatical leave, with 80 percent net pay, every eight years. There will also be bonuses for teachers completing refresher courses or researches, increases for teachers holding university degrees, and special bonuses for those in charge of certain special subjects.
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