Teachers need to dig deep to go on holiday
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Radikal
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Haziran 26, 2009 00:00
ISTANBUL - Teachers are feeling particularly hard-hit with the arrival of the holiday season, as on their salaries, a vacation in a hotel is quite a luxury.
According to research conducted by the educators’ union Eğitim-Sen, a teacher has to work 76 days and 10 hours to be able to afford a weeklong vacation for three people in a five-star hotel. A clerk has to work 88 days and 20 hours, a research assistant 65 days and 16 hours and a professor 31 days and two hours.
The research exposed the difficulties that employees in the field of education face if they want to take a vacation. According to Eğitim-Sen, a family of three people has to pay about 1,896 Turkish Liras to take a seven-night vacation in a three-star hotel, 2,610 liras for the same length stay in a four-star hotel and 3,534 liras for a five-star hotel. For a holiday abroad, a teacher has to work between 49 days and two hours and 238 days and 19 hours, while a civil servant has to work between 57 days and 277 days and a professor has to work between 19 days and 23 hours and 97 days and five hours.
Crisis causing pain
According to the research, a British family of two would pay 1,195 euros for an all-inclusive vacation with transportation in a five-star hotel in Antalya for seven nights; if a Turkish family of two chose to stay in the same hotel, it would cost them 1,163 euros. A teacher in Turkey earns an average of 7,712 euros annually, while an English teacher who works in an elementary school earns 20,932 euros annually. Türk Eğitim-Sen President İsmail Koncuk said with the increasing impact of the economic crisis, it is a luxury for those in the field of education to go on holiday. Koncuk added that a civil servant’s family has to allocate a serious amount of money from its budget to take a vacation.
"It is impossible for a civil servant to even dream about going on a vacation, not to mention actually doing it," said Koncuk. He requested a holiday allowance from the government for employees in the field of education.
The research exposed the difficulties that employees in the field of education face if they want to take a vacation. According to Eğitim-Sen, a family of three people has to pay about 1,896 Turkish Liras to take a seven-night vacation in a three-star hotel, 2,610 liras for the same length stay in a four-star hotel and 3,534 liras for a five-star hotel. For a holiday abroad, a teacher has to work between 49 days and two hours and 238 days and 19 hours, while a civil servant has to work between 57 days and 277 days and a professor has to work between 19 days and 23 hours and 97 days and five hours.
Crisis causing pain
According to the research, a British family of two would pay 1,195 euros for an all-inclusive vacation with transportation in a five-star hotel in Antalya for seven nights; if a Turkish family of two chose to stay in the same hotel, it would cost them 1,163 euros. A teacher in Turkey earns an average of 7,712 euros annually, while an English teacher who works in an elementary school earns 20,932 euros annually. Türk Eğitim-Sen President İsmail Koncuk said with the increasing impact of the economic crisis, it is a luxury for those in the field of education to go on holiday. Koncuk added that a civil servant’s family has to allocate a serious amount of money from its budget to take a vacation.
"It is impossible for a civil servant to even dream about going on a vacation, not to mention actually doing it," said Koncuk. He requested a holiday allowance from the government for employees in the field of education.