Intern Teachers Now Assured Of Permanent Jobs. The 26,000 instructors hired in the first batch of the JSS internship program will work on Pand P conditions beginning on July 1.
President William Ruto and the Teachers Service Commission previously corresponded that the intern teachers, who have been planning protests to demand P and P terms, were expected to be confirmed in January.
Thanks to the National Assembly’s intervention, junior secondary school teachers can now finally breathe a sigh of relief as their employment on permanent and pensionable (P and P) conditions is guaranteed.
The 26,000 instructors hired in the first batch of the JSS internship program will work on Pand P conditions beginning on July 1.
According to a previous correspondence between President William Ruto and the Teachers Service Commission, the intern teachers who have been organizing protests to support the P and P terms were expected to be officially approved in January 2025.
The majority of those who are serving now have internship agreements that expire in January 2025.
Funds Set Aside For Employment Of Interns
However, the Budget and Appropriations Committee was informed on Monday by Julius Melly, the chair of the education committee, that Sh8.3 billion had been set aside for their employment.
“The Teachers Service Commission should streamline the recruitment process to ensure that resources allocated to this function are utilised fully at the beginning of the next financial year,” Melly stated to the budget committee.
“The commission should convert the 26,000 intern teachers to P and P terms beginning July 2024 and January 2025 as earlier indicated.”
After intern instructors withdrew their tools and demanded P and P periods, junior secondary schools across the nation experienced a paralysis in instruction.
Some of them claim that the court order that was previously obtained in favor of the JSS interns was delayed until August 1, 2024, and they have already received show cause letters for missing work with TSC.
Because the intern instructors are qualified and hold teaching licenses, Justice Bryrum Ongaya of the Employment and Labour Relations Court concluded on April 17 that TSC had breached their right to fair labor practices.
In the decision, Ongaya stated that “the respondents have not exhibited statutory regulatory or policy arrangements that would entitle the first respondent (TSC) to employ interns.”
Intern Teachers Now Assured Of Permanent Jobs
As per the ruling, the first respondent should hire registered teachers on nondiscriminatory terms and endeavor to meet the staffing needs of public schools as much as possible.
The Forum for Good Governance and Human Rights filed a petition challenging the Teacher Internship Program, and the Court eventually decided to grant their request.
Primary teachers received Sh15,000 and secondary teachers received Sh20,000 when the internship program began in 2019.
The JSS interns argued that there wasn’t enough money to support their way of life during their demonstrations.
Intern Teachers Now Assured Of Permanent Jobs