According to the president of ANEP, António Pacavira, the decree on the state of emergency safeguards the jobs of workers, including teachers, considering it a "humanist measure of the authorities", especially after coronavirus.
For the leader, who was speaking this Thursday to Lusa, the government's measures in the framework of the state of emergency aimed at containing the spread of covid-19, the second phase of which runs until 25 April, are also extended to private education officials.
The first 15 days of the state of emergency, aimed at containing the spread of covid-19, ran from 27 March to 10 April.
"There's a ten-month contract relationship between the administrators and the schools, they're two private entities, the State appears here as the regulator that guided the ministries of finance, education and higher education to work with partners to find a balance," said António Pacavira.
Several education officials have complained about the collection of tuition fees in March and April at the private education level, according to the National Institute for Consumer Defence (Inadec).
In a statement sent to Lusa on Tuesday, Inadec expressed indignation at the stance of private educational institutions, referring the resolution to ministerial bodies.
However, this Thursday, the leader of ANEP considered that in their approach to the issue, the line ministries should be guided by "a balance that maintains teachers' salaries and the payment of taxes".
"And, of course, with these charges we have to go somewhere and get the money and nothing better than to go to the guardians who are our funders", he said.
António Pacavira also assured the teachers that the institution he heads "is doing everything to keep the jobs" of the more than 40,000 people working in the sector.
