TSC Cautioned Against Victimizing Protesting JSS Teachers
TSC Warned Against Using JSS Teachers Who Were Protesting as Victims. A directive has been issued to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to refrain from taking any action against Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers who participated in today’s nationwide demonstrations.
Through the TSC Nandi County Director, Paul Rotich, the Executive Secretary of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Nandi, emphasized this position when he presented a petition to Dr. Nancy Macharia, the Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Commission.
In line with a recent court decision, Rotich made it clear that the goal of the protests is to support permanent and pensionable terms for JSS teachers.
“We appeal that the Teachers Service Commission immediately employs the interns on Permanent and Pensionable terms following the Employment and Labour (Relations) Court judgment by Hon. Justice Ongaya on the legality of internship and Teachers Service Commission,” Rotich emphasized.
He requested the commission to withdraw its appeal of the case, provide full compensation for the impacted teachers, and hire the interns permanently in their plea to the TSC.
Rotich further emphasized that the TSC should make up the difference in pay between internships and full-time jobs for the interns.
“No JSS teacher participating in this agitation should be intimidated or victimized,” he declared. JSS teachers from throughout the country staged protests today, organized by different KUPPET groups, calling on the TSC to confirm them to permanent positions and drop its appeal case.
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This request is in response to the Employment and Labour Relations Court’s ruling that TSC’s internship program is illegal. TSC Warned Against Using Protesting JSS Teachers as Victims
After meeting with the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), they lamented that they should only be engaged permanently once they had finished receiving training on the new curriculum.
Orwa Jasolo, the chairman of the Teachers’ Union of the Migori branch, criticized the government for breaking a pledge to hire the instructors permanently.
TSC Cautioned Against Victimizing Protesting JSS Teachers
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