DGCA approves air navigation allowances

Kindergarten teachers complain about new controls

KUWAIT CITY, Dec 24: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has approved air navigation allowances, ranging from KD100 to KD250 depending on the functional degree, for 230 employees assigned in the control tower and radar, reports Al-Anbaa daily.

The directorate took the decision before postponement of the sit-in that the Union of DGCA Workers was supposed to carry out some time this week. The allowances will be paid before the end of this month.

On the other hand, Chairperson of the union Salem Al-Shreeda confirmed the sit-in was postponed after the directorate agreed to grant the allowances. He added the union decided to postpone the sit-in until the directorate responds to their other demands.

Meanwhile, A group of kindergarten teachers have complained about the new controls over the supervisory posts recently approved by the Directorate of Coordination and FollowUp of Public Education in the Ministry, reports Al-Rai daily.

Head of the List of Teachers for Change Adel Al-Rashed stressed on the need to issue a law on compulsory education in kindergartens, and stressed on the legitimacy of the demands of teachers at this important stage describing the new conditions for the promotion of kindergarten teacher as a crime against the teachers adding that to the years of experience to take up the post of supervisor should be 21 for the diploma, 19 for the university, 18 for the Masters and 17 for the Doctorate.