Commenting on information being received from NASUWT local
officers and regional officials that schools are continuing with
redundancy meetings, Ms Chris Keates, Acting General Secretary of
NASUWT - the Teachers’ Union said:
“It beggars belief that at a time of a national crisis, when the
future for everyone is so uncertain, that some schools are
refusing to withdraw their plans to make teachers redundant and
are insisting on ploughing ahead with redundancy meetings and
hearings.
“Teachers, despite their deep and understandable anxieties about
their own and their families’ well-being, are from today
providing key frontline support for our NHS and other emergency
services.
“What kind of employers, in the face of such an unprecedented
situation, consider it acceptable or appropriate to add to this
stressful situation by seeking to remove them from their jobs.
“The Prime Minister repeatedly has urged businesses and employers
to stand by their workforce at this time but clearly some are
callously choosing to ignore this and not giving a second thought
to adding to the misery workers are already facing.
“The time has come for the Government to stop urging employers to
do the right thing and stand by their workforce but to insist
that they do.
“The NASUWT is pressing for all redundancy procedures to be
withdrawn and will have no hesitation in publicly naming those
employers who fail to do this.”
