TSC December promotion updates. Before the CBA 2017-2021, around 1,000 instructors were interviewed for senior graduate teaching jobs and then deployed as head teachers under job group M (renamed C5).
These teachers were previously in JG ‘M,’ which is C5, and were paid in pay group K.
According to the conversion table, six primary school teachers, including senior graduate teachers, senior authorized teachers, and senior ordinary diploma teachers,
TSC December promotion updates
should have been promoted to D1 upon their deployment as head teachers.
During the relevant period, the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) chose to promote a number of teachers to positions of leadership without conducting interviews.
The teachers comprised
- Graduate Teacher I,
- Ordinary Diploma Teacher I,
- Approved Teacher I,
- Graduate Teacher II,
- Approved Teacher II,
- Ordinary Diploma Teacher II,
- Ordinary Diploma Teacher III,
- Approved Teacher III,
- Approved IV and
- P1 Teachers from JG G, H, J, K and L to C5.
This measure was intended to raise these teachers’ salary to match the administrative jobs they were gaining. These teachers are paid in pay group K.
Despite being submitted to an interview, which they passed, and being granted leadership responsibilities as heads of institutions, the group of instructors initially at JG M; C5 feel they were short-changed.
TSC December promotion updates
This is due to the fact that they remained in grade C5 despite receiving no monetary benefits.
There are some inconsistencies, such as some senior graduate teachers functioning as head teachers being in D1 while others with the same qualifications are still in C5.
These teachers had the same qualifications and worked in the same job group before being interviewed and given the new roles.
They play the same duties and face the same problems, yet they are paid differently, in violation of Part II, Section 5 of the Labour Relations Act of 2007.
Even as they continue to perform their jobs, the affected teachers are demotivated and underappreciated.
TSC December promotion updates
When these teachers complained to TSC about the situation, the employer offered 63 positions for senior graduate teachers to go to D1 as part of the mitigation.
The teachers were astonished to learn that these places were allocated only for teachers from arid and semi-arid terrain areas.
It was also revealed that they were open to all head teachers in those districts, including those who had been promoted from job group G to job group C5.
In response to the failure to solve these teachers’ condition, TSC claims that it only deployed them to positions of leadership but did not promote them.
TSC December promotion updates
Some P1 teachers with degrees, on the other hand, have been sent to high schools and promoted from C1 to C2 without being interviewed.
The deployed head primary schools should have received the same treatment.
The code of regulations for teachers defines deployment as the assignment of a teacher to a specific capacity,
which includes posting them from a primary institution to a secondary institution and the withdrawal of administrative duties.
The appeal of these instructors to have the commission look into their condition by assessing and compensating them based on the grades they deserve is genuine, meritorious, and substantial.
TSC December promotion updates
The issue was raised on time, and we took action by writing to the commission and requesting that it fix the issue.
TSC appears to be presenting their case using the definitions of terms in the Code of Regulations for Teachers and the provisions of the 2017/2021 CBA.
This argument will not provide a favorable result. Our position is that a suitable climate must be developed in order for these teachers to properly express themselves and be aided.