Lahore: The education department of the Punjab province in Pakistan has abolished 44,000 posts of government school teachers as part of its outsourcing campaign to the private sector. The move adds to the existing challenges and struggles for the citizens, who are faced with a towering inflation crisis, which is getting aggravated by consistent job losses in the private sector, and now the government sectors as well.
According to reliable sources in the Punjab School Education Department, it will now be up to the private sector owners to hire teachers according to their policy. On the other hand, teachers say that the decision will add to growing unemployment among youth, who they say have been suffering at the hands of the private sector with salary cuts, job losses, layoffs and downsizing.
“The private sector has already been cutting staff or reducing salaries of the retained people. Hundreds of thousands of employees have been laid off. The reason they give is that business losses are forcing them to cut to the bare minimum,” said Humaira, a school teacher. (IANS)
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