JSS Interns To Start Picking P&P Employment Letters. With aspirations to secure letters of permanent employment, the teachers participating in the TSC JSS intern program in public schools have cause for celebration.
The budget and appropriations committee, which gave the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) the go-ahead to hire all junior secondary school teachers, made this announcement.
These educators are presently enrolled in an internship program; beginning in July, they will receive permanent contracts with pension benefits from the commission.
The committee’s chair, Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro, stated that enough money had been set aside by the government for this purpose in the 2024–2025 fiscal year.
JSS Interns To Start Picking P&P Employment Letters
He confirmed this emphasizing on the availability of resources to formalize the status of JSS interns.
Nyoro further directed the TSC to employ all 46,000 interns under the program immediately after the budget approval instead of making these teachers keep waiting until January 2025 as initially proposed.
The lawmaker urged the TSC not to delay the confirmation process after budget approval, but instead consider the interns’ dedicated service despite low wages.
The above orders from parliament follow the resolution of a three-week strike by Junior Secondary School intern teachers,that now have agreed to return to work after signing a return-to-work agreement on June 1.
Under the terms of the deal, TSC, the teachers’ employer, promised to reinstate deregistered teachers and to remove the show-cause letters it had sent to striking teachers.
Additionally, TSC had pledged to not penalize individuals whose salaries were withheld. Despite this, a few JSS instructors have chosen to hold off on going back to work until they receive offers from the commission for permanent, pensionable posts.
As soon as these teachers receive their letters of confirmation, they will begin receiving a competitive wage in addition to other benefits, exactly like their permanent counterparts.
Additionally, since these intern teachers are not employed on a permanent basis, they will be eligible for full and comprehensive medical coverage, something they do not now have.