Mp Goes After TSC Over Teachers Pay Discrepancy
The salary disparity experienced by competent teachers employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has been brought to light by Mwingi West MP Charles Nguna.
On Wednesday, August 16, Nguna formally petitioned Parliament to address the gap in teacher wages, which ranged from Ksh25,000 to Ksh36,000.
Nguna’s claim is centred on the nearly 1,000 educators who are caught up in this problem, which was caused by events that occurred before the 2017 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between Teachers and their employer, TSC.
In 2018, these teachers were given the position of headteachers under Job Group M (now known as Job Group C5) after undergoing interviews for senior graduate teacher jobs.
After the 2017 CBA was ratified, these instructors did not advance to higher job groups, where their counterparts received higher pay.
“The colleagues who underwent identical interviews and became headteachers prior to the July 2017 CBA are now categorised under Job Group D1 and are receiving higher salaries,” Nguna noted.
Despite having equivalent qualifications, belonging to the same work category, carrying out the same duties, and facing comparable obstacles, both sets of teachers have different salaries and perks.
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Nguna emphasised the anomalies, pointing out that while some top graduate teachers have been appointed as headteachers, others with the same credentials are still in Job Group C5 rather than Job Group D1.
The MP further noted that neither the latest TSC promotion drive, which involved 14,738 teachers, nor the promotion plans for 12,634 educators took into account these impacted persons.
The petition further stated that “the teachers are struggling with a sense of discrimination due to these concerns, causing a decline in their morale as they diligently perform their duties.”
“The professors did their utmost to address and fix the issue, but no suitable actions or replies were taken. The actions taken so far include individual letters to TSC asking for appropriate pay and engaging the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) to take action.
Nguna is requesting that the TSC be ordered by Parliament to assess the pay and perks of the impacted teachers while retrospectively implementing these changes from 2018, when they were given these responsibilities.
Mp Goes After TSC Over Teachers Pay Discrepancy
