TSC Teachers Get July Salaries With Increments, Arrears And Promotions

Good news as the Teachers Service Commission as TSC pays teachers July salaries and allowances to its over 315,000 teachers. Already more banks and SACCOs have affected salary payments in teachers’ accounts.

TSC moved a number of teachers from one job group to another as some teachers confirmed receiving the July salaries with arrears. According to Career Progression Guidelines, teachers who have completed three years in one job group have now been placed in a new one

Those who have benefited immensely from this July increment are school administrators. These include senior teachers, deputy headteachers, headteachers, and principals.

Earlier, TSC had listed six job groups where school administrators belong that will earn salary increments with arrears this July. According to TSC, teachers in grades C4, C5, D1, D2, D3, and D4 were at the end of July 2022 enjoy better salary perks backdated to July 2022.

These teachers were eligible for a pay rise because they have not reached their maximum salary points popularly known as bar according to the CBA 2017-2021 terms. TSC will pay teachers their salary increments with arrears from the date they attained the maximum salary point to January 2023.

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), which had previously objected to a CBA without monetary gains as proposed by TSC, is now climbing down and suggesting the possibility of having an agreement with a condition that the suspension only lasts two years.

KNUT wants TSC, to review the 2021–2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) to effect a 60 percent salary increase for the 300,000-odd teachers. They initiated a negotiation in which a 60% salary proposal was introduced while at the Naivasha retreat with the employer.

However, Classroom teachers can wait for KNUT, KUPPET, and TSC to strike a salary deal by reviewing the non-monetary CBA they signed in Julys 2021. What will happen to classroom teachers?