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Teacher salaries, unions dissatisfied

The Ministry of National Education presented, Tuesday, January 24, two scenarios for raising the salaries of teachers during a meeting with the unions, but they consider the increases too low in the second half of their career. Teachers moving from one to two years of seniority would earn €153 net more per month compared to January 2023, and those with between six and eleven and a half years of seniority between €281 and €292. Those with eighteen to twenty-two years of seniority would earn only 85 to 114 €, and beyond twenty-two years, 36 to 78 €. The total budget is 635 million, and prioritizes attractiveness at the start of a career.

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End of life

Yaël Braun-Pivet “hopes” for a law in 2023

The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, said on Wednesday January 25 that she hoped for a law on the end of life in 2023, in order to offer “a new freedom”. The elected official had invested herself under the previous five-year term for Olivier Falorni’s bill authorizing euthanasia. “I hope that we will be able to succeed”, either via a bill “if the government wishes to move forward on this subject”, or via a bill from the deputies, she added.

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Corrigendum

In our edition of Wednesday, January 25, concerning the new edition of the book Les Fossoyeurs, we wrote by mistake that the Korian group had never responded to the author’s requests. “Conversely, Korian’s Managing Director France received Victor Castanet at length to answer his questions on August 3, 2021”, wishes to specify the group, which adds that he “exerted no pressure of any kind whatsoever it is to obstruct the investigation and prevent the release of the book. »

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