Nairobi, KENYA: Teachers will enjoy a Sh1.6 billion boom at the end of this month when authorities pay out a raft of new allowances backdated to July 1. The new allowances were negotiated to end the nationwide teachers’ strike in July, but the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) was yet to factor them in teachers’ salaries. TSC is now processing payments for three sets of allowances that are sure to fatten the bank accounts of more than 278,000 teachers at month-end. Under the pay-out, the lowest paid teachers will pocket up to Sh37,000 on top of their monthly salary, and the highest will rake in as much as Sh100,000. Teachers secured additional rates for commuter allowance, special school allowance, responsibility allowance and readers allowance after a protracted strike in July. The Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) signed the Sh16 billion pay deal. It’s unclear what fraction of this will be paid out as arrears. “We have no figures until the payroll is generated,” TSC officials told The Standard. But the monthly payroll for teachers is about Sh12 billion. Under the new deal, commuter allowance for the lowest paid teacher in Job Group G will rise from Sh1, 001 to Sh2, 501 starting this month. The arrears total Sh4, 500. The commuter allowance for this group will be eventually revised to Sh4, 000 by 2014.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:04:17 +0000
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