Intern Teachers Want Full Salary And Arrears After Court Ruling
Intern Teachers Want Full Salary And Arrears After Court Ruling
Intern Teachers Want Full Salary And Arrears After Court Ruling
It is now possible for more than 56,000 teachers who worked as Teachers Service Commission (TSC) interns to request that their employer reimburse them for their entire internship pay as well as any unpaid wages during that time.
A few of the intern teachers who are currently employed by TSC have threatened to sue the commission to recover unpaid wages for the time they spent providing their services to junior schools.
Speaking in Nairobi, spokesperson Boniface Omari suggested that the commission begin compensating them for the underappreciated 15 months they had worked.
Additionally, the spokesperson disclosed that they are pursuing legal action to obtain compensation for the time they worked for TSC without receiving a full salary.
Omari insinuated that TSC now owes intern teachers Sh26 billion,money they are now demanding to be provided to them with immediate effect.
Furthermore, Omari expressed his wish for the government to use the national assembly to force the TSC to completely follow the court’s decision that teachers with comparable qualifications ought to be paid equally.
Now, all of the intern teachers demand that the government fully abide by the court’s ruling, which states that teachers with comparable qualifications ought to be paid equally.
During the court ruling declared in Wednesday,it was announced that interns were teaching a full curriculum,among them subjects they did not train including sciences and mathematics contrary to their agreement of only to teach two subjects.
The Court claims that the aforementioned state complicates the interns’ status.
Furthermore, it was discovered that even though primary and secondary interns only receive an intern stipend of SH 15,000 and SH 20,000, respectively, these stipends are still subject to full taxes and government contributions, including the contentious housing levy.
These teachers also don’t have the necessary resources or experience instructing students at a low behavioral and psychological development level, which creates misunderstandings in their day-to-day service delivery.
