Senate Summons TSC Over Delayed Pay For Primary Teachers
According to a petition, the Senate should call the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to testify about the non-payment of salary arrears for P1 teachers with A Level credentials who worked between 1996 and 2010.
According to Ruth Kabuyu, the instructors were promoted in 1996 but had not yet received their back pay, which is against normal working procedures.
Sen. Amason Kingi read the petition as he was reading it to the Senate. “The Petitioner, therefore, prays to the Senate that it intervenes in this matter with a view to recommending to the National Treasury and Economic Planning to factor in budget, to enable payment of salary arrears to the teachers,” he said.
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The petitioner claims that the TSC’s Directorate of Personnel Management released a non-graduate teachers’ service plan in July 1996, outlining the prerequisites and promotion opportunities for instructors.
“The Commission put the aforementioned ideas into effect, necessitating the necessary regrading. Part of the petition states that in July 1996, the then Ministry of Education, Science and Technology asked all District Education Officers, Municipal Education Officers, and City Director of Education to provide the Ministry with the names of trained primary school teachers P1 with A Level academic qualifications.
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According to Kabuyu, the Ministry then locked out other A-Levels primary school teachers P1 who had not attended the two-week course and promoted untrained A Level instructors who had attended the program to secondary schools (S1).
Ledama Olekina of Narok, a senator, endorsed the petition and suggested that taxing MPs to fund teacher salaries.
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“If you raise my tax to pay for these instructors, I will be glad. Do not, however, raise my taxes to pay for a housing fund in any way. How are you going to provide those instructors with housing if you can’t pay them? enquired Olekina.
Many teachers’ salaries, according to senator Dan Maanzo (Makueni), are not proportional with their credentials. “Many of our professors went on to earn degrees. They earned their degrees through independent study.
Senate Summons TSC Over Delayed Pay For Primary Teachers
