translated from Spanish: Education program workers claim late payments since April

About 200 workers in educational systems such as Open High School and Distance Baccalaureate have not received their payments for a month, despite being working from home but on a regular basis.
This is because on April 3rd the “Decree ordering the termination or termination of public trusts, public mandates and similar ones” came into force, which was ordered by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
This decree affected the “General Baccalaureate Trust in its non-schooled and mixed modalities”, on which the salaries of the aforementioned employees depend and which is administered by the General Directorate of Baccalaureate of the SEP.
In addition to Open High School and Distance Higher Middle Education, the other programs affected are: Student Care Centers with Disabilities (CAED); My Virtual Learning Environment (MIEVA), and reagents (adapting tests for people with disabilities).
Open Prepa, print and exam delivery, as well as exam applicators and applications were also harmed.
Of the 200 workers the complainants, 28 are from CAED; 10 of the reagent program; MIEVA 9; 3 of the Distance Higher Middle Education program, and the rest to the service area.
All of them have not received their salary since April 16, but they continue to work normally and from home for the pandemic facing the country.
Authorities don’t answer
From the first delay, affected employees requested, by email, information about the status of the trust from the secretaries of finance and public education, but none of the units responded.
For its part, the Directorate-General for Baccalaureate (DGB) requested the federal authorities to apply the exception criterion so that the trust does not disappear.
A few days ago, the Ministry of Finance published the New Model Contract Trusts 2020 which establishes two types of cases, that of settlement (trust termination) and that of the trusts that will continue to operate.
However, the unit does not clarify whether the “General Baccalaureate Trust in its non-schooled and mixed modalities” will be one that will continue.
In an interview for Animal Político, Martha Tapia Madrid, head of CAED 2, at CDMX, points out that all they want is a certain answer about their back wages and their future work.
Martha notes that some of the coordinators in various areas have informed them that they are in negotiations with the Treasury, but without giving details on the progress.
Nor have they been informed whether the exception criterion appeal sent by the DGB was taken care of.
Annoyed, like the rest of her peers, Martha says federal authorities never measure the impact these decrees have on people who rely on trusts.
“They don’t care that we don’t have pay or work certainty, they charge very comfortably and are very comfortable as they make their negotiations, but how much longer are they going to take?” he adds.
Animal Político also sought out the PMI for progress in negotiations with the Treasury, but until the publication of this note is still awaiting response.
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Original source in Spanish

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