Teachers Points New Calls for To Authorities Over Wage Increment
The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) is demanding a wage improve of fifty to one hundred pc for its members in a brand new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), to assist deal with the rising value of dwelling.
According to KUPPET Secretary General Akelo Misori, he argued that this was because of the improve in the price of fundamental home goods between the years 2017 and 2024.
“There has been a huge price increment, especially in oil products and other basic commodities used by ordinary citizens,” he stated throughout a gathering at AIC Mokombet Church in Uasin Gishu County on Sunday.
It can also be anticipated to facilitate the promotion of 20,000 major faculty heads, now serving as Acting Junior Secondary School Principals, to Principal standing.
KUPPET can also be demanding for threat allowance for academics working in hardship areas and people working in laboratories and workshops to cater for accidents they might incur of their line of obligation.
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“Some sub-counties have lost the status of hard-to-staff and hardship areas. So we must appeal to the Teachers Service Commission that the status of Kajiado should remain the same,” KNUT Secretary General Collins Oyuu declared.
“Some sub-counties have lost the status of hard-to-staff and hardship areas. So we must appeal to the Teachers Service Commission that the status of Kajiado should remain the same,” KNUT Secretary General Collins Oyuu declared.
The union additionally addressed the difficulty of trainer scarcity within the space and said that the problem was one which affected a number of different counties within the nation and urged TSC to prioritize staffing rural areas as an alternative of over-staffed city areas.
“The issue of understaffing here is one issue that even escalates to other branches and other regions,” Oyuu added.
“Teachers should not be posted to the urban areas that are already overstaffed. Let them be posted to schools that need teachers.”
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