Teachers pay deal filed in labour court
The Teacher Service Commission CEO Nancy Macharia (left) and Kuppet Secretary-General Akelo Misori display copies of the signed collective bargain agreement document at a Naivasha hotel on October 26, 2016. It pushes for pay increase. PHOTO | MACHARIA MWANGI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- TSC signed separate agreements with the Kenya National Union of Teachers and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers on October 25 and 26, respectively.
The collective bargaining agreement for teachers has finally been registered by the court, setting the stage for its implementation, which is expected to cost taxpayers Sh54 billion.
Teachers Service Commission CEO Nancy Macharia on Monday said officials were working on how to put the deal to effect and that details of benefits to individual teachers would be communicated early next year.
The TSC signed separate agreements with the Kenya National Union of Teachers and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers on October 25 and 26, respectively.
“An expanded grading structure has been adopted with the following grades: B5, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, D1, D2, D3, D4, D5.
"Previously, teachers were in job groups G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q and R,” said Ms Macharia.
She explained that the lowest grade — group G — had been scrapped and grade B5, which has an enhanced salary entry point, introduced.
This will affect more than 100,000 teachers, mostly in primary schools.
Ms Macharia added that job groups P, Q, and R had been expanded to the new grades of D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5.
