BOM Teachers Set For TSC Employment. Most Secondary schools in Kenya are struggling with understaffing. The number of TSC employed teachers in schools is not enough to cater for the student population. Most schools end up employing teachers under the board of management.
These teachers are paid by the school. However, their salaries are slightly lower as compared to their TSC counterparts. The teachers later on get employed by the Teachers Service Commission when Vacancies are advertised.
However, some schools delay in paying these teachers due to inadequate funds. These Teachers end up being paid late or even sometimes go without pay. Most of these schools don’t pay the teachers during holidays, frustrating them. KUPPET has now come to their rescue.
The goal of the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) is to convert all secondary school Board of Management (BOM) teachers into TSC employees.
KUPPET lists the underpayment of BOM teachers by their organizations, their lack of access to healthcare, and their immunity from Commission disciplinary action in spite of teaching in public schools.
BOM Teachers Set For TSC Employment
If funding becomes available, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) stated that it is willing to employ the BOM teachers.
To address the current teacher shortage in Junior Secondary Schools (JSS), TSC will also hire an additional 20,000 teachers. This will result in a combined cost to the government of about Ksh 7.8 billion.
This followed a six-day discussion at Sawela Lodge in Naivasha between the commission and representatives of the teachers.
The KUPPET National Executive Committee organized a press conference, but senior TSC officials were noticeably missing.
The Commission agreed to purchase the services within the current fiscal year after KUPPET requested that new Group Life Cover, Group Personal Accident Cover, and Work Injury Benefits (WIBA) insurance for teachers be adopted urgently as part of the medical system.
In response to the union’s complaints about bureaucratic hold-ups in retired teacher pension processing, the Commission said it was working together.