9-hour policy should never have existed, says Teachers Union

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20 The National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) lauded the governments preference to do away with the nine-hour workday for propagandize teachers, observant it was unnecessary as well as should not have been implemented in the initial place.

Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (picture) voiced yesterday which the project had been discontinued.

The deputy prime minister pronounced the preference was done in sequence to allow the government to weigh the investigate conducted upon the project which initial began with 19 schools in Malacca.

There have been the lot of reasons why the 9 hour policy is not practical. Making it compulsory for the teacher to be in propagandize for which prolonged is not practical, NUTP president Hashim Adnan told The Malaysian Insider today.

He urged the Education Ministry to deliberate workers unions in the future prior to determining upon policies affecting teaching as it could start the governments image if there was the sudden change of plans.

We goal the Education Ministry will discuss matters with us initial if they wish to exercise things like this in the future to avoid the governments image being influenced if policies like this have been cancelled prior to they have been essentially implemented, Adnan said.

He combined the latest announcement showed the weakness in the Education Ministrys preference making process.

Adnan also pronounced teachers essentially worked some-more than 9 hours the day upon normal if operative upon public holidays as well as during grave examinations were taken in to account.

In most schools, there have been not sufficient comforts provided for all teachers to be in propagandize for 9 hours, Adnan added.

The brand new policy would have been implemented January 2012 onwards in 4 states Melaka, Sarawak, Pahang! as well as Johor as well as would have influenced 5,000 teachers from primary as well as secondary institutions.

The policy compulsory morning propagandize teachers to be in propagandize from 7.30am until 4.30pm since afternoon propagandize teachers were compulsory to be upon duty at 9.30am to 6.30pm.