TSC Intern Teachers Seek Complete Compensation and Arrears After Court Decision.
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 whole 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, spokeswoman 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 reimbursement for the time they worked for TSC without receiving a full salary.
According to Omari, TSC currently owes intern teachers Sh26 billion, which they are requesting be paid to them right away.
Furthermore, Omari expressed his want 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 with the court’s ruling, which states that teachers with comparable qualifications ought to be paid equally.
In contrast to their agreement to teach only two topics, it was revealed during the court verdict on Wednesday that interns were teaching the whole curriculum, including areas like physics and mathematics in which they had prior training.
The Court claims that the aforementioned state complicates the interns’ standing.
Furthermore, it was discovered that while though primary and secondary interns only get an intern stipend of SH 15,000 and SH 20,000, respectively, these stipends are still subject to full taxes and government payments, including the contentious housing levy.
These teachers also don’t have the necessary resources or expertise instructing students at a low behavioral and psychological development level, which creates misunderstandings in their day-to-day service delivery.
TSC Intern Teachers Seek Complete Compensation and Arrears After Court Decision.
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