TSC seeks to hire back sacked JSS intern teachers.
The employer of the 742 Junior Secondary School (JSS) intern instructors whose contracts were terminated yesterday announced that they will be hired again shortly.
But in order to be heard, as mandated by law, the interns must first file an appeal with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
Nancy Macharia, the chief executive officer of TSC, encouraged the teachers who went on strike a few weeks ago and demanded to be hired on a permanent and pensionable basis as a result of a court decision to file an appeal.
In order to “allow the National Assembly to pass the Finance Bill, 2024,” thousands of JSS intern teachers who had been on strike since April 17 halted their boycott last month until July 5.
The 46,000 educators requested permanent employment from their employer. In 2019, the graduating instructors were employed as interns.
The interns also urged the commission to issue a circular on their confirmation to permanent and pensionable terms as soon as the Financial Bill, 2024 is enacted, through their national spokeswoman, Omari Omari.
Following a conference with JSS county leaders, we decided to call off the protests in order to allow Parliament to approve the budget on Thursday. We ought to have received information on the 46,000 instructors’ confirmation status by then, according to Mr. Omari.
Plans are underway, according to Ms. Macharia, to provide permanent and pensionable employment to public school employees.
“We are optimistic that sufficient funding will be obtained for the endeavor,” the head of TSC stated during the Kenya Secondary Schools Heads Association meeting held in Mombasa.
She continued by saying that TSC would advance more educators following the government’s Sh1 billion allocation for the project.
We are pleased to have new principals attending this meeting in their capacity as official heads of institutions for the first time. This came about as a result of 545 deputy principals being promoted to principals during the fiscal year 2023–2024, which concludes this month, according to the commission head.
In the current fiscal year, TSC promoted 36,504 instructors, increasing the total number of teachers elevated in the previous five years to 71,212.
“As we work to reduce the backlog, we will promote more teachers. When the positions are posted, I implore principals to encourage qualified teachers in their schools to submit applications,” Ms. Macharia stated.
In order to guarantee that salaries are paid on time and that there are no overpayments, she encouraged the heads of institutions to make sure there are no delays in adding new teachers to the payroll by filing their paperwork quickly.
In order to ensure that teachers’ housing, municipal, and hardship allowances are processed and paid on time, senior TSC officials at the conference asked principals to provide the employer with the information on teachers assigned to their schools from other institutions as soon as possible.
“You are denying service to that tutor if you do not update the data on TMIS and report a teacher’s movement through the exit-entry module,” stated Ms. Macharia.
She asked the leaders of the schools to get ready for the first group of students scheduled to finish JSS in the upcoming school year under the Competency-Based Curriculum.
According to Ms. Macharia, the principals must have made suitable preparations to accept the pupils.
TSC is currently working on creating circulars with recommendations to help instructors get ready for the kids’ introduction to the new curriculum.
TSC seeks to hire back sacked JSS intern teachers.
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