advisors of the online high school programin charge of the federal SEP, asked the agency for labor certainty, since since December 2022 they were promised extensive contractsnot monthly, in February, but they have not been givenin addition to they delay their payments.
In interviews with this medium, who chose to omit their names, two advisers commented that entered in 2021but the contracts that were held were through a outsourcing companywhich were monthly, but not as teachers, but as virtual advisors.
To do this, the firm in charge of hiring sent them the format for one page, from there downloaded signedeither with the signature or with a handwritten signature that, although he was up to date with the payments, I did not inform them if at the end of the month they went to continue working or not.
They explained that this program because it is national can have students of any state in the countrynot only from Puebla, although it is mostly for thes people who are no longer of school agebut they want to learn, so there are groups that can be up to 70.
Given this, by January 2022 the hiring was in charge of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP)which he sent them via email, although they were told that it would be three in the yearone of six months, one of three and another of two, but “he was always late with payments.”
They commented that last year, as the SEP was in this process, they delayed the start of classesbecause they had to start in January, but it was not until March, that is to say, two months later, although they had been insured that they were going to have to work all year.
“First they told us, in January, that We waited, the contract was just comingIn total, it was until March that they told us how the whole process was going to be, it was until May, then they paid us until the end of June, that is, half without receiving the money, then in August they gave us the one that covers from July to September ” they reported.
In December, they were told that they would regularize them in 2023
They mentioned that it was only in October when they were paid on time Well, for November and December it was another contract, paying the two months at the end of the year, although they were always retroactivebut always one month after the date the document was signed.
After this, they commented that they had a meet virtually between advisers and program managers in December, in which they were told that starting 2023 They were going to give them information about what the hiringbut that it was going to be for the whole year and that it was only one and that they were going to seek to be given social Securityso how they were going to regularize payments.
“It is the date that they do not give us informationwe have sent post office about this situation without giving us an answer, they do not give us a date. We are teaching classes despite this, we keep workingbut they have not paid us either, they are between 11 and 12 thousand pesos a month”, they expressed.
According to the broadcast of the meeting that took place on December 12, Jesus Eduardo Perez Buendiadirector of Higher Secondary Education Services, indicated that the hiring would be for monthsbut who trusted that everyone could start the year.
While, regarding the payment of the advisors, he informed that they had to wait for lto Ministry of Finance determine the budget ceilings for the hiring for fees, and that which I hoped would happen in January, to start the process.
“Let’s imagine that in February we start with the contracts between what is loaded, financial authorization, they return it to us, we send it to them to sign, they sign it, the payment is validated and released, that is the normal procedurebut if they are already working like this, we hope it will continue and the following month (January) will come back to normal,” he said.
Likewise, the manager commented that they had asked that they be as broad as possible, in order to six or eight monthsto avoid what happened in 2022, but he stressed that this was a matter for the Treasury, but that the precise information would be available by January.
They only answered an email
The advisers stated that They have sent emails to René Bello Sánchez, who is an administrative director, who only once did he answer telling them that they do not have dates for when the contracts will be given, as for what it may be in April or May or before.
I don’t want to say a specific month, because This situation does not depend on us both you as educational figures and we as administrative staff, we must wait for the authorizations of the corresponding institutions. I hope we have good news as soon as possible,” the response read.
Said program consists of virtual advisors accompanying the high school level courses so that students achieve the expected learning in each module, according to the study plan and curriculum map, There are 24 in total, one per month, so they last 2 years.
21 of these modules cover the generic and disciplinary competences of the five curricular disciplinary fields, another two are destined to the student readiness in the development of their professional, social and work skills and at the end of each one two weeks are dedicated to the recovery activities.
LPR