SADTU KZN, Statement, 3 November 2015 Post Provisioning Norms for 2016 SADTU in KwaZulu-Natal has learnt that the Department of Education issued Post Provisioning Norms (PPN) certificates to schools which we as SADTU strongly believe that the numbers used to generate those certificates were not accurate. This has resulted in the majority of schools in the Province having to lose many posts and educators. If this is left unattended chaos and instability will be the order of the day come 2016. Our commitment as SADTU has always been to partake in these processes with the main aim being to ensure that the processes remain transparent and fair for and particularly to all. It is also our continued belief that staffing has an impact on the overall performance of the school hence the necessity to ensure that schools are adequately staffed so that they operate on some equitable basis. To put this on record, SADTU is receiving hundreds of complaints from schools on a daily basis since the issuing of the PPN certificates and HRM 46 of 2015 by the Department. SADTU suspects that there is foul play in all this, in that at the level of the Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) it was agreed that the department must conduct a headcount in some schools which had contested their PPN. The process gave rise to PPN certificates showing a certain number of posts that schools qualified to have. Two months after the issuing of such PPN certificates a new process ensued which gave totally new numbers of the allocation of posts that schools qualify for. This is confusing and misleading as there is no expectation whatsoever that one office can issue two different certificates within a period of three months. SADTU KZN therefore demands: . That the processes be withheld. . That calculations be redone and correct PPN certificates be issued to schools. . That all SADTU members must not participate in the processes pertaining to HRM46 of 2015 until the department attends to our demands as listed above. These demands are made as a temporary measure understanding that the current attitude of the employer is undermining the developments made so far regarding curriculum transformation and change. The system remains counter-revolutionary as it stops schools to offer as many streams as they may wish because only the number of learners determines the number of teachers that schools must have. Prepared by the Secretariat For further details contact: Nomarashiya Caluza Provincial Secretary 082 611 7027 [email protected] -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
