JSS Teachers Issue Ultimatum To TSC. Teachers at junior secondary schools (JSS) are demanding compensation and validation from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
The 46,000 instructors that were hired in February and September of last year and assigned to junior schools include the JSS teachers.
They want payment for the sixteen months they served without receiving the proper compensation.
JSS educators’ desires.
According to Emmanuel Akendo, a Kisumu-based JSS teacher, the court determined that the internship was unlawful, discriminatory, and unconstitutional.
In order to get the teachers to return to the classroom, he gave TSC three recommendations: either pay the interns for the 16 months they worked without being paid, verify all 46,000 interns, or fire the tutors if the interns cannot be verified.
Stephen Samba, another JSS teacher, requested JSC to stop turning a blind eye and and obey the court order.
“We are not relenting on this matter and asking TSC to come out and obey the court matter. We are willing to come and sit down with them to bring the strike to an end, but only under two conditions, that they will offer confirmation and compensation, without the two, we will not be going back to school,” Samba added.
JSS strike
After a court ruling last month, the teachers have stayed away from school demanding employment on permanent and pensionable (PnP) terms.
Some 38,863 teachers on contract are deployed to JSS, while only 687 are on permanent and pensionable terms. Six thousand interns are in primary schools and 450 others are in secondary schools.
The Kenyan Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) called on the government to finance the hiring of tutors and endorsed the walkout by intern teachers on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.
JSS Teachers Issue Ultimatum To TSC
Kuppet Secretary General Akello Misori requested the assistance of Parliament, the National Treasury, and the Teachers Service Commission in three letters in order to continue learning and teaching.
A portion of Akello Misori’s letter said, “For the second day in a row, learning has been paralyzed in all JSS classes as the teachers protest.”
The strike, which is taking place in the midst of protracted school closures due to widespread floods across the country, is affecting over 2.5 million JSS pupils.