JSS intern teachers to get permanent jobs
The head of the National Assembly’s budget and appropriations committee, Ndindi Nyoro, has announced that intern junior secondary school teachers will soon have permanent jobs with pension benefits.
In an effort to pressure the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to certify their employment, the 46,000 teachers who are currently employed under contract have paralyzed learning in JSS courses.
Last Monday, the JSS interns went on strike, demanding full-time, pensionable work.
Nyoro claimed that the TSC has been given the largest budget, totaling more than Sh300 billion, and that the commission will use this money to hire the teachers who are on strike on a permanent basis.
With more than Sh. 300 billion in funding, TSC is the top-ranked university in Kenya. We want JSS instructors to be confirmed, and I want to reassure them that we would pay for the confirmation of permanent and pensionable terms for JSS intern teachers,” Nyoro stated.
Reports suggest, meanwhile, that the funds allotted to TSC could not be sufficient to permanently employ all 46,000 of the JSS intern instructors.
Despite the fact that every department was clamoring for increased funding, Nyoro dismissed concerns after it was revealed that the Department of Basic Education had seen a budget cut of more than Sh19 billion.
Not all of the present contract intern JSS teachers will be taken on by TSC, as revealed last week by Julius Meli, the head of the Parliamentary Education Committee.
According to him, in the upcoming fiscal year beginning in June 2024, the government would only hire 26,000 JSS intern teachers on a permanent and pensionable basis.
The government intends to reveal to Julius Meli, the chairman of the Parliamentary Education Committee, that TSC would absorb the intern JSS teachers who are currently employed on a contract because funding has been provided by Parliament.
Meli urged the junior secondary school teachers to return to the classroom and resume teaching while their complaints were being addressed, instead of continuing with their weekly demonstration.
The legislature has given TSC money to engage 26,000 JSS interns on a permanent basis. Meli stated, “We need them to have patience since the remaining will be absorbed in the upcoming years.
The lawmaker said that the National Treasury’s justification for not being able to hire all of the JSS interns—citing financial limitations—was accepted by his committee.
Meli continued, “Once the 26,000 are employed, 20,000 more JSS intern tutors will be hired on a one-year contract to help cover the massive teacher shortage that exists in Kenyan schools today.”
TSC breached the intern teachers’ right to fair labor practices, according to a ruling made on April 17 by Justice Bryrum Ongaya of the Employment and Labour Relations Court.
He declared, “The respondents have not demonstrated any statutory regulatory or policy arrangements that would grant the first respondent (TSC) the right to hire interns.”
“To meet the best staffing needs in public schools, the first respondent should ideally employ registered teachers on nondiscriminatory terms.”
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