Senate Summons TSC Over Failure To Pay P1 Teachers’ Arrears
A petitioner wants the Senate to ask the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) why teachers with A Level grades who worked as P1 teachers from 1996 to 2010 have not been paid their back pay.
Ruth Kabuyu says that the teachers were promoted in 1996, but they still haven’t gotten their back pay, which isn’t how most jobs work.
As Senate Speaker Amason Kingi read the plea, he said, “The Petitioner, therefore, asks the Senate to step in and recommend to the National Treasury and Economic Planning that this matter be factored into the budget so that teachers can be paid their back pay.”
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According to the petitioner, the TSC’s Directorate of Personnel Management put out a scheme of service for non-graduate teachers in July 1996. This scheme laid out the standards for teachers and how they could move up in their jobs.
“The Commission put these plans into action, after which there was a need for regrading. Part of the petition says, “In July 1996, the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology asked all District Education Officers, Municipal Education Officers, and City Directors of Education to send the Ministry the names of trained primary school teachers P1 with A Level qualifications.
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Kabuyu says that the Ministry sent untrained A-Level teachers to secondary schools (S1) after they took a two-week course at Kagumo and Bondo Teachers Training Colleges. This left other A-Level primary school teachers (P1) who had not taken the course out of the running.
Ledama Olekina, a senator from Narok, said that it would make sense to tax MPs to pay teachers, which he said he agreed with.
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“I’m fine with you raising my taxes to pay these teachers. But don’t raise my tax to pay for a rental fund of some kind. “How are you going to give those teachers homes if you can’t pay them?” asked Olekina.
Senator Dan Maanzo (Makueni) said that many teachers don’t get paid enough for the skills they have. “Many of our teachers went to college and got degrees. They went to school on their own time and are now qualified.”
Senate Summons TSC Over Failure To Pay P1 Teachers’ Arrears
