Education office employees raise red badge in rejection of decision to exclude them from half salary

Education office employees in the Houthi-controlled governorates pledged to raise red badges starting tomorrow, Saturday, as a sign of a union escalation by them to force the Houthi militia to pay their salaries.

A statement issued by a committee assigned by most of the education offices in the Houthi-controlled governorates said on Friday that they will raise the red badges during official working days for three days, starting from tomorrow, Saturday, until Monday.

The statement demanded that a full monthly salary be paid to all employees of the administrative staff of education, as they do not receive any other rights.

They called on the Educational Professions Syndicate and the National Education Syndicate to increase their pressure on the Houthi government to pay the salaries of administrative employees.

The committee assigned by the administrators pledged to escalate according to the law if the Houthi Ministry of Finance did not respond to their demands.

The Houthi militia had approved a new law at the end of last month called the mechanism for disbursing employees’ salaries, which stipulated dividing the salaries of government employees whose salaries had been cut for years by re-disbursing a full salary to senior employees in the Houthi government, a half salary per month for several sectors including teachers in schools, and a half salary every three months for administrators in education offices. The Houthi finance ministry justified the decision to exclude administrative employees by saying that they number more than 22,000 employees and that it does not need them, and called on them to accept its decisions.