At the beginning of October, social networks were flooded with reports about delayed salaries of teachers in Uzbekistan. The initial complaints appeared on October 4, with users stating that the salaries for September had not yet been calculated they shared.
On October 7, the Deputy Director of the National Information Agency (UzA), Khushnudbek Khudoyberdiev, announced that he had contacted the leadership of the Ministry of Preschool and School Education he reported. According to his words, the MPSSE announced that all technical issues had been resolved and the process of calculating teachers' salaries had begun.
He emphasized that 50% of the employees' monthly salaries had been paid (this post was published on the evening of October 7).
During the day of October 8, some teachers still reported not receiving their salaries they said. Furthermore, issues related to the renewal of teachers' qualifications resulted in them not receiving their full salaries, and it was promised to cover the difference in the following months.
According to the Ministry of Finance and Economy, as of 9:00 a.m. on October 9, 95 percent of the teachers' salaries had been transferred, and measures are being taken to pay the remaining part by the end of the day. As for all budget organizations, 98 percent of the salaries have been paid to the employees.
According to Article 333 of the Labor Code Article 333 requires that, in the event of a delay in payments such as salary, holiday pay, termination payments, or any other payments due to an employee, the employer must pay these with interest (monetary compensation). The compensation is calculated for each day of delay from the day following the due date until the actual payment date, based on the current refinancing rate of the Central Bank.
The amount of monetary compensation due to an employee is determined at 10 percent of the Central Bank's refinancing rate (around 0.74 percent).
The obligation to pay the specified monetary compensation arises regardless of whether the delay in salary payment was the employer's fault.
In such cases, every school, as the employer of the teachers, is materially responsible for the delays. The terms of compensation must be specified in the collective agreement of the schools.
