A Smoke Screen?Unions’ Renewed Effort To Award Teachers’ Payrise Through The Supplementary Budget.

Unions’ Renewed Effort To Award Teachers’ Payrise Through The Supplementary Budget 2022.
It has emerged that the Teachers’ Unions are working silently to secure salary increments for their members. It has been noted that both KNUT & KUPPET officials are currently involved in quite informal meetings with top officials from TSC with the sole aim of ironing out issues that will pave way for salary review.
Some union officials believe that despite teachers missing out on pay rise through the national budget, it is still possible for teachers to get salary increments through a supplementary budget. It is important to note that, normally the Supplementary Budget is the request for additional funds by existing Ministries and Departments during the year.
Earlier, the Teachers’ Union and the Teachers Service Commission had signed a non-monetary CBA. Following the disagreement between the Union and the Commission, a salary component failed to be included in the review of the Non-monetary CBA. It is emerging that the Commission is keener on employing more teachers to plug in the shortage arising from the 100% transition and the CBC demands than hiking the existing teachers’ pay. This follows the Commission refuting claims that it will use the money for awarding salary increments to teachers even though the Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani allocated an additional sh.14.8 billion to the Commission. In a report presented in parliament, TSC indicated that the additional allocated money will be used to employ more teachers. In the budget, Tsc was allocated sh.2.5 billion for employing 5,000 teachers on permanent terms and another sh. 1.2 billion for employing slightly over 6,000 teacher interns.
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