TSC teachers must be employed permanently, not on a contract basis, according to the law- Kuppet.
According to Omboko Milemba, the chairman of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), the Teachers Service Commission is mandated by law to hire teachers on a permanent basis as opposed to a contract one.
On Wednesday, Milemba talked in an interview with Citizen TV.
He asserted that TSC must hire instructors on permanent contracts in accordance with the constitution.
“It has been mandated to employ teachers on a Permanent and Pensionable basis,” Milemba stated.
He recalled that the internship program had been launched in 2011.
“Never before had we heard TSC employ teachers on an internship or temporary basis before then,” Milemba stated.
“Therefore when TSC tried to employ teachers on a temporary basis which is called interns, we as a union went to court and won.”
He said that the program was discontinued in 2012 after the instructors who had worked as interns in 2011 were eventually hired on a permanent and pensionable basis.
Up until the internship program was reinstated and JSS teachers were once again needed.
He mentioned that after a year in the temporary role, instructors hired as interns in 2023 were offered permanent and pensionable terms.
“When goal posts were changed to two years as interns before they get permanent contracts, there was agitation,” he stated.
He claimed that the interns would be hired on a permanent and pensionable basis in the upcoming fiscal year, as per a promissory note from the government and the parliament’s education committee.
According to him, the JSS interns are seeking confirmation from the TSC that they will receive permanent and pensionable contracts at the start of the upcoming fiscal year.
That guarantee is essential to resolving this issue. In an effort to guarantee that teachers are on P and P terms for the upcoming fiscal year, which starts in June, we have written to TSC and the National Treasury,” Omboko stated.
This occurs when the second week of the JSS intern teachers’ strike gets underway.
The Employment and Labour Relations Court’s Justice Bryrum Ongaya declared on April 17 that TSC had infringed against the intern instructors’ entitlement to fair labor practices.
In the upcoming fiscal year, beginning in June 2024, the government intends to grant permanent and pensionable status to 26,000 JSS intern teachers.
TSC teachers must be employed permanently, not on a contract basis, according to the law- Kuppet.
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