PASIR SALAK, 3 May 2018:
There is no regulation allowing teachers appointed as election workers – including for the May 9 polling day – to have a replacement holiday on the following day, Education Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid said.
He said these teachers should apply individually to their schools if they want to take leave on May 10.
“There is no regulation for this (replacement holiday). The teachers make individual request to the principal or the headmaster because they can take up to 10 days leave a year.”
Mahdzir said this in response to the call by the Congress of Unions of Teachers in the Malaysian Education Service for the Education Ministry to consider giving a replacement holiday to schools and teachers involved at the polling and ballot counting centres until late at night on May 9.
A total of 6,971 schools in the country will be used as polling centres for the 14th general election (GE14).
Meanwhile, Mahdzir said 41 teachers from grades DG32 to DG54 had tendered their resignations after being fielded as candidates in the GE14.
Of the total, 15 were fielded as Barisan Nasional candidates, while the rest were representing the opposition.
– Bernama