Mallorca strike: one teacher for four primary classes
Mallorca’s primary schools must keep one teacher for every four groups during Wednesday’s general strike across the Balearic Islands. Nurseries, secondary schools and social care services also face minimum staffing rules. The Balearic Ministry of Education and Universities and the Ministry of Families, Social Welfare and Dependency Care have set out who must work.
Who must be in school
At centres for children aged 0–3, the head or a substitute must attend, along with one teacher for every three groups. Other schools must have their head and secretary on duty. Preschool classes need one teacher for every three classes, while special education centres need one for every three groups. Secondary schools must keep one teacher for every four classes.
School meals and transport follow agreements between the private companies and employers’ associations that provide them. The education ministry’s statement does not say whether those services will operate on Wednesday.
Care services keep staff on duty
Staffing at the public Fundación Institut Socioeducatiu s’Estel and the Fundación de Atención y Apoyo a la Dependencia y de Promoción de la Autonomía Personal must match Sunday and public-holiday levels. In contracted community rehabilitation services for people with mental health diagnoses, 25% of direct-care staff must work.
Day centres for people who need care must keep 30% of reception, administrative and care staff, and all other staff. For home care, 40% of management, administration, coordination and support staff must work. The requirement for care staff ranges from 30–40% for people assessed at grade I to 75–100% at grade II and 100% at grade III.
The social welfare ministry says the rules aim to prevent people living alone or without enough help nearby from being left without the care they need or facing a risk to their health.
Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com