The Teachers Service Commission TSC has announced plans to implement automatic promotions for all qualified teachers as a measure to address the delays for stagnated teachers in one job group for many years .
TSC has assured these teachers that teachers that it will automatically promote them from their current employment categories to the next job group.
To effect the same, TSC has developed a new system of ranking, which now places teachers in accordance with their efficiency, the amount of years spent in teaching which translate to their level of of expertise.
TSC criteria will benefit stagnated teachers more since it will save their time and ensure their rise in service.
The promotions will also see these teachers’ Salaries and allowances improve to the next level.
The news come at a time when the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary Collins Oyuu has denounced TSC for assigning teachers roles without compensation to them.
Speaking in Kisumu on Friday, Oyuu passed blame to TSC saying that teachers will not continue acting for more than six months without being paid acting allowances,
He demanded that TSC must pay teachers acting allowances.
He added that any teacher assigned a duty by TSC to act either as a head teacher or deputy head teacher in another school or in his station must be paid acting allowance.
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary General Collins Oyuu ; image/File
Oyuu warned TSC for its past practice of re-assigning teachers duties in schools to act as heads or deputy head without compensating for their time in service.
The above practice by TSC was in total defiance of the Labour laws where one for instance is assigned duties to act as a head teacher for three years before being absorbed and without getting any allowances.
Oyuu told the employer to consider promoting teachers based on their qualification with or without the having money so long as they are qualified.
