Yemen Monitor / Newsroom:
On Sunday, the Yemeni Teachers’ Syndicate in Taiz Governorate called for action to address the situation of more than 10,000 teachers and education workers who, it says, have been deprived of benefiting from Cabinet Resolution No. 14 of 2026 concerning the payment of annual increments and a 20% increase in the cost-of-living allowance.
In a memorandum addressed to Abdul-Wasi‘ Shaddad, Director of the Taiz Education Office, the syndicate stated that a large number of teachers in the governorate had been harmed by previous measures that prevented them from receiving their financial entitlements, despite their continued work in the education sector.
The syndicate explained that among those affected are 5,109 male and female teachers who were transferred to the social insurance system “without their request,” despite continuing to work in schools. As a result, they were deprived of the annual increments for 2021 and 2025. In addition, 1,337 of them were denied supplementary increments when previous increments for the years 2014 and 2020 were implemented.
It added that this group will also be adversely affected when the 20% increase in the cost-of-living allowance is implemented, noting that teachers in other governorates who had reached retirement age before 2014 received their increments retroactively, along with the supplementary increments that Taiz teachers did not receive.
The syndicate also pointed out that teachers and education workers hired in 2011 were denied the increments for 2012 and 2013, as well as the nature-of-work allowance. Their number stands at 5,623 educational employees, despite previous demands and follow-up efforts by the syndicate and the Education Office.
The syndicate called for these issues to be raised with the state leadership and the government and for urgent solutions to be found to ensure that affected teachers receive their rights. It warned that the continuation of the situation could prompt many of them to leave the education sector, threatening the educational process at the start of the 2026–2027 academic year.
In the memorandum, Abdulaziz Sultan Saeed, head of the Yemeni Teachers’ Syndicate in Taiz Governorate, stressed the need to resolve these issues in a manner that ensures justice for the governorate’s teachers and educators.
