Promoted Teachers to Receive Payrise First
Charles Nguna, a member of parliament for Mwingi West, has pleaded with the National Assembly to help teachers who have been appointed as head teachers without receiving a pay raise.
On Tuesday, Nguna remarked during a speech in Parliament that although senior graduate teachers who had successfully completed competitive interviews had been hired prior to the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) of July 2017, they had not yet received any type of pay raise.
“Some of these teachers were deployed to become head teachers from 2018 while others remained as senior teachers,” he said.
Nguna said that despite being appointed as head teachers, their pay and benefits did not alter in accordance with the July 2017 CBA because they still fell under the same Job Group.
“Their counterparts who went through the same interview and became head teachers before the July 2017 CBA are now in Job Group D1 and earning higher salaries and allowances,” he claimed.
Promoted Teachers to Receive Payrise First
The two types of teachers, he said, have the same credentials, work in the same Job Group, execute the same duties, and face the same difficulties, but receive different pay and benefits, which is a breach of Section 5(1) of the Labour Relations Act of 2007, he said.
The teachers feel discriminated against and demoralized as a result of the aforementioned issues, even though they continue to perform their jobs,” he continued.
Nguna requested that the House work with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), the organization that employs the teachers, to evaluate the pay and benefits of the affected teachers and bring them into line with those of their coworkers after numerous attempts to fix the problem had been unsuccessful.
The subject was forwarded to the Public Petitions Committee by Speaker Moses Wetang’ula.
Promoted Teachers to Receive Payrise First
