Listed TSC Teachers to Receive Salaries and Arrears After Budget Reading
Listed TSC Teachers to Receive Salaries and Arrears After Budget Reading. A number of teachers will receive hefty pay after the national budget is presented to Parliament on Thursday of next week.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is already putting the finishing touches on its June payroll as the fiscal year 2022-2023 comes to an end.
Regarding the categories of instructors who are expected to get arrears-pay this month, the Commission offered a number of recommendations.
1. Primary school teachers moved to junior high schools
Those who would get arrears pay include PTE teachers who were given the responsibility of instructing Grade 7 students.
This month, just a small percentage of the teachers received their paychecks, and the majority of them were already current on their bills.
The first cohorts, who applied by February 6th 2023, were transferred to junior secondary schools after having their paperwork verified by their Sub County Directors and receiving deployment letters.
According to the deployment (posting) letters for the graduate teachers, they would start at job group C2, where their monthly gross pay would be ksh 58,335.
In a circular dated February 17, 2023, TSC stated that it had received 10,833 requests for the deployment of qualified primary school teachers to junior secondary schools.
However, only 7,400 qualified teachers were given the opportunity to start working with 7th graders.
To speed up payment for the deployed teachers, TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia provided clear instructions to Sub County Directors and Primary Headteachers while releasing and receiving teachers.
“As soon as the teachers are deployed to JSS, the County Directors shall start publishing on the Entry/ Exit Reports Module to the Sub-County. According to TSC CEO Nancy Macharia in the circular, the Sub-County Director would post the instructors to JSS.
In order for the Head of Institution receiving the teachers to submit the Entry Report, she instructed the Heads of Institution (HOI) releasing the instructors to release them as soon as possible.
2. Newly recruited JSS teachers who missed payments and accumulated significant arrears
The Commission will also pay the newly employed junior secondary school instructors. This group includes both temporary teachers and those who hold permanent posts.
TSC had hired 35,550 JSS teachers, but only 17,800 of them had received payment. Even while the majority of people received their paychecks this month in arrears, a small portion did not.
3. Teachers who are promoted to the next level of employment
This month, teachers who were promoted to the following job group but did not receive their back pay will experience an increase in compensation.
Some teachers were progressed from B5 to C1, while others were advanced from C1 to C2, in accordance with the Career Progression Guidelines (CPG). The pay raises, though, were not made.
The Commission will pay the teachers’ past-due fees on Monday to eliminate the backlog.
(4) Any unpaid bills.
TSC will pay any outstanding arrears to the teachers. For instance, if a school acquires a code and is added to the list of schools that fall under this category and is in a hardship zone and its teachers were not paid the hardship allowance for a few months because the school lacked a code, they will be refunded the arrears.
Another example is that TSC would pay a teacher in arrears if he had been suspended, had his case been resolved, and had been reinstated on the payroll.
Next the presentation of the national budget to Parliament on Thursday of the next week, several instructors will earn large salaries.
As the fiscal year 2022–2023 draws to a close, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is already putting the finishing touches on its June payroll.
The Commission made a number of suggestions about the types of teachers who are anticipated to get arrears-pay this month.