The Minister of National Education was visiting a Paris school on May 11, 2020. - JOEL SAGET / AFP

Negotiations on the increase in teachers' salaries, promised in the pension reform, will resume "by the end of June", announced Jean-Michel Blanquer on Tuesday. "We have to pay our teachers better, in the context of a more flexible career where they can make more choices," added the Minister of Education on BFM.

When negotiations were launched in January, Jean-Michel Blanquer had announced to the trade unions that he intended to devote 500 million euros to these increases, which will take effect in January 2021. The government has promised that wage increases will make it possible to guarantee the same level of retirement for teachers who could potentially lose a lot with the reform, which has been stopped since the health crisis.

The health protocol could be relaxed at the start of the new school year

In addition, while the schools and colleges of metropolitan France reopen very gradually this Tuesday as well as the lycées of the departments classified green, the minister underlined that "all the pupils (had) vocation to return, even a little" in their establishment before summer vacation. On this point, the Minister considered that "in Paris, the children were insufficiently received" and that the "situation deserves improvement".

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The strict health protocol, deployed since the start of deconfinement on May 11, will be maintained at least until the end of the school year, he also recalled. "If things continue to develop positively, it will certainly have to be alleviated" at the start of the September school year, he added.

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