Mp Goes After TSC Over Teachers Pay Discrepancy.
Charles Nguna, the Mwingi West MP, has called attention to the pay disparity that skilled educators employed by TSC face.
Nguna officially petitioned Parliament on Wednesday, August 16 to remedy the disparity in teacher pay. This disparity ranged from Ksh25,000 to Ksh36,000.
Nearly 1,000 educators are affected by this issue. The issue was brought on by occurrences that took place prior to the 2017 CBA involving Teachers and TSC. This is according to Nguna’s allegation.
After going through interviews for senior graduate teacher posts, these teachers were offered the position of heads of schools under Job Group M in 2018 (now known as Job Group C5).
These instructors were not promoted to higher job groups where those around them received higher compensation once the 2017 CBA was approved.
The colleagues who had the same interviews and were appointed headteachers before the July 2017 CBA are now classified under Job Group D1 and are earning more money, according to Nguna.
Both groups of teachers have differing incomes and benefits. This is despite sharing the same duties, having the same qualifications, and also falling under the same occupational category.
Nguna emphasized the discrepancies, noting that while some of the best recent graduates have been chosen as headteachers, others with comparable qualifications are still in Job Group C5 instead of Job Group D1.
The MP also pointed out that these individuals were not taken into consideration in either the most recent TSC promotion campaign, which involved 14,738 educators, nor the promotion intended for 12,634 educators.
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Furthermore, according to the petition, “the teachers have trouble with a sense of prejudice due to these concerns. This therefore creates a decline in their enthusiasm as they dutifully perform their duties.”
“The academics made every effort to resolve the problem, but no appropriate steps or responses were implemented. Individual letters to TSC requesting for fair compensation have been written so far. The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has also been contacted to take action.
Nguna is asking Parliament to provide the TSC the authority to retroactively implement these reforms from 2018, at the time they assumed these responsibilities, while also evaluating the salaries and benefits of the affected teachers.
Mp Goes After TSC Over Teachers Pay Discrepancy.