KNUT Demands TSC to Pay Acting Allowances For These Teachers

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The Kenya National Union of Primary Teacher ( KNUT) has demanded that the Teachers Service commission (TSC) should pay responsibility allowances for teachers who have served under acting capacity.

According to KNUT boss, it is wrong for teachers to be serving under acting capacity for more than six months without being paid acting allowances .

As a result, the Teachers service commission ,as per to the Knut Secretary general Collins Oyuu,TSC must pay teachers acting allowances.

In his speech to the press in Kisumu on Thursday , Oyuu has said that any teacher assigned a duty to act either as a head teacher or deputy in another school or his station is expected to be paid acting allowance.

KNUT has condemned the current situation where the commission  re-assigns teachers some duties in schools to act as heads or deputies but fail to  compensate them for their time in service delivery.

Emphasizing on need for reviews, Oyuu used an example of a teacher assigned duties to act as a head teacher for three years , where he was later b absorbed without getting any allowances for the period he served

According to KNUT sec. general Oyuu such an act is a total violation of the Labour laws of kenya.

Oyuu has further  asked for promotion  of teachers based on their qualification with or without the TSC having money to pay them as long as they qualify and TSC to pay them.

He further  said that TSC is not expected to stop promotions on the basis of lack money, but  promote teachers and pay them when they get the money.

Junior Secondary Intern teacher with learners during a lesson.

Junior Secondary Intern teacher with learners during a lesson ;image/Courtesy

On the other hand TSC is currently preparing to implement automatic teacher promotions for all qualified teachers so as to solve the delays which have for years stagnated teachers in one job group.

As a result TSC is also slowly effecting automatically promoted from their current employment categories to the next levels.

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