A 6-Year Pay Gap for Teachers Is Revealed in a New Petition

Charles Nguna, the Mwingi West MP, has called attention to a compensation gap that certified teachers employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) are expected to face in their service delivery

Nguna insisted that over 1,000 instructors had been impacted by the issue, which started before the 2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the tutors and their employer, the Teacher’s Service Commission (TSC), was established.

The teachers had interviews for senior graduate teaching positions before being hired as headteachers under Job Group M (formerly Job Group C5) in 2018.

Teachers were not promoted to the following job categories, where their pay parity was higher, after the 2017 CBA was approved.

The MP claimed that “their counterparts who underwent the same interview process and were appointed headteachers prior to the July 2017 CBA are now in Job Group D1 and earning higher salaries.”

The two varieties of instructors “are performing the same roles, facing the same challenges, and have the same qualifications, but receive different salaries and allowances.”

According to Nguna, there are anomalies when some senior graduate teachers hold the position of headteacher while others with the same qualifications continue to work in Job Group C5 rather than Job Group D1.

The lawmaker continued by saying that the 12,634 tutors and 14,738 teachers who were recently notified for TSC promotions failed to take the impacted people into account.

According to the petition, “the teachers feel discriminated and are demoralized even as they continue to perform their duties as a result of the aforementioned concerns.”

“The academics made every effort to address and resolve the problem, but neither the responses nor the actions were adequate. Using the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and sending individual letters to TSC asking fair compensation are two of the aforementioned strategies.

Nguna is requesting that Parliament direct TSC to assess the salaries and perks of the affected teachers and pay them retrospectively for the time they were deployed in 2018.

As a result of TSC’s five-year delay in promoting around 124,105 teachers, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education of Teachers (KUPPET) announced in February that teachers lost Ksh2 billion.

The union said that because TSC refused to advance instructors, they remained in the same employment grade for at least five years.

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