MP Launch Petition Against TSC over Teacher Salary Discrepancies
The salary disparity that trained teachers working under the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) must deal with in order to provide their services has been brought to light by Charles Nguna, member of parliament for Mwingi West.
The congressman claimed that instructors performing the same activities were paid between Ksh25,000 and Ksh36,000 in a petition he presented to Parliament on Wednesday, August 16.
Nguna asserted that the dispute between the teachers and their employer, the Teacher’s Service Commission (TSC), which started before the 2017 CBA, encompassed close to 1,000 instructors.
2018 saw the deployment of the teachers who had undergone interviews for senior graduate teaching jobs as headteachers under Job Group M (formerly Job Group C5).
Teachers were not elevated to the next job classification, where their peers are paid more, when the 2017 CBA was passed, though.
“Their counterparts who went through the same interview process and became principals prior to the July 2017 CBA are now in Job Group D1 and earning higher salaries,” the legislator stated.
Both types of teachers hold the same credentials, fall under the same occupational category, carry out the same tasks, and encounter the same difficulties, yet they are paid differently.
According to Nguna, there are inconsistencies because some senior graduate teachers have the position of principal while others with the same credentials continue to work in Job Group C5 rather than Job Group D1.
The congressman also pointed out that the newly disclosed TSC promotions for 14,738 teachers or 12,634 instructors did not include the impacted personnel.
According to the petition, teachers carry out their tasks despite feeling mistreated and demoralised as a result of the aforementioned problems.
The professors made every effort to confront and fix the problem, but they were not met with satisfactory responses or actions. Individual letters asking fair compensation have been sent to the TSC as part of these efforts, and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has been contacted to take action.
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Nguna is therefore asking Parliament to order TSC to evaluate the wages and benefits of the impacted teachers and pay them for their deployment in 2018 in full.
As a result of TSC’s five-year delay in promoting 124,105 teachers, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) announced in February that teachers lost Ksh2 billion.
The union claimed that because TSC did not advance instructors, they were forced to hold their positions for at least five years.
MP Launch Petition Against TSC over Teacher Salary Discrepancies
