Big Win For Classroom Teachers As SRC Finally Recognizes Their Crucial Role In School, Setting Stage For Higher Salaries In July, 2021 When The Current CBA Lapses; TSC Salary Increments For Teachers 2021
New Job evaluation by SRC appreciates the role of classroom teachers, terms the last CBA skewed and biased
Big Win for Classroom Teachers as SRC Finally Recognizes their Crucial Role in School, Setting Stage for Higher Salaries in July, 2021 when the current CBA lapses; TSC Salary Increments for Teachers 2021
Source: The Standard
It is a major win for TSC employed classroom teachers as a new job evaluation exercise conducted this year finally recognises their pertinent role in school, paving way for higher pay in July 2021 when their current Sh54 billion pay deal lapses.
New Job evaluation by SRC appreciates the role of teachers, terms the last CBA skewed and biased
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A newly released report by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission, SRC, has indicated that the last job evaluation was skewed, favouring school administrators only sidelining classroom teachers.
The new report shows that the current job descriptions of the classrooms teachers, based on the 2016/2017 evaluation, greatly undervalued and failed to recognize their worth, resulting in meagre pay.
It further indicates that the present Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), being implemented based on the previous SRC job evaluation, heavily favoured head teachers for it did not correctly capture classroom teachers’ job descriptions.
“There were significant disparities in the compensation and career progression between the institutional administrators and classroom teachers in the teaching profession as the job evaluation results for 2016/2017 did not adequately cater for the remuneration of classroom teachers. This might be attributed to poor development of job descriptions in 2016,” reads the report.
This means for the last four years, classroom teachers – who are also the majority staff – were underpaid in the CBA, which winds up in June.
Details of the current CBA shows primary school head teachers and secondary school principals were moved to higher job grades in 2016.
All primary school heads of boarding and day schools were automatically moved up to Grade D1, earning between Sh77,840 to Sh93,408.
Primary head teachers with lower students’ population were elevated to C5, earning Sh62,272 and Sh77,840.
Primary school deputy head teachers were also moved up to grade C5 and Grade C4, earning between Sh52,308 and 65,385.
Senior primary teachers were moved up, to grade C2, to earn between Sh34,955 and 43,694.
Principals of national schools were moved to Grade D5 for salaries of between Sh131,380 and Sh157,656 per month. The pay was also based on the school categories. Principals of extra-county schools moved to grade D5 as their deputies move to D3.
Principals of county schools were moved to grade D4 as those of sub-county boarding schools rose to Grade D4. Deputies head teachers of county and sub-county schools moved to grades D3 and D2 respectively.
Principals of sub-county day schools moved to group D3 and secondary school senior headmasters moved to Grade D4.
This was based on a newly grading structure for the Teaching Service which ranged from T-Scale 15 (job group D5) for the Chief Principal to T- Scale 5 (B5) for the Primary Teacher II being the lowest grade.
The new evaluation has however retained the grading structure.
Under this grading system adopted after the 2016/2017 job evaluation, P1 which fell under job group G, was scrapped and replaced with grade B5, which became the entry grade for primary school teachers.