ERIC Number: EJ851347
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Jun
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1673-341X
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Over Ten Years after the Implementation of the Teacher's Law: Watching and Expecting
Li, Yin
Frontiers of Education in China, v1 n2 p286-299 Jun 2006
It has been over ten years since the "Teacher's Law" took effect on January 1, 1994, and its promulgation and implementation have somewhat helped in protecting teachers' legal rights and interests. Undeniably, however, the "Teacher's Law" is defective in many aspects, such as the absence of teachers' legal identity, its failure to safeguard a teacher's essential interests and rights, serious laggardness of the teacher's appointment system and obstacles to dealing with teachers' complaints and litigations. All such defectiveness make the legislative purpose "to safeguard the teacher's legal rights and interests" in Article 1 of the "Teacher's Law" less effective in practice. Therefore, in order to judicially assist teachers in safeguarding their own legal rights and interests, it is necessary to modify the "Teacher's Law" and especially give priorities to: (1) defining the identity of the state staff member for teachers; (2) treating teachers owed to in arrears as peasant-workers, and paying and remunerating them punctually (3) formulating detailed measures on the implementation of the teacher's appointment system as soon as possible, solving problems of unemployment of teachers arising from the inequality between the teacher's rights, the school's power and the absence of the teacher's identity; (4) establishing a lawsuit system connected with teachers' complaints and personnel arbitration.
Descriptors: Interests, Educational Legislation, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Compliance (Legal), Teacher Rights, Teacher Salaries, Teacher Selection, Unemployment, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Power Structure, Court Litigation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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