TSC New C1 Teachers salary increment and latest promotions updates
TSC New C1 Teachers salary increment, For wage changes, teachers in job group C1 must wait for a compensation agreement or, if they’re lucky, a promotion.
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This is because the last yearly compensation increase for teachers was implemented by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in July 2024.
Like their colleagues in secondary schools, primary school teachers in work group C1 are not automatically promoted to job group C2.
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When the Commission paid the yearly wage rise in July, the teachers’ basic pay increased from sh. 32,149 to sh. 33,994 per month.
TSC 2017 signed CBA
After the CBA was signed in 2017, it provided for six notch wage increases through the year 2021. For the fiscal years 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021, 2021, 2022, 2023 and this most recent one, 2023 to 2024, they received a pay rise in July.
Teachers currently endure job stagnation. After being deployed, several people who were qualified to teach in junior secondary schools are now employed in job group C2.
Others who were fortunate enough became senior teachers in their schools after being promoted to job group C2 after participating in promotion interviews.
Nevertheless, there is light at the end of the tunnel because instructors will receive pay increases every year in July, even if the anticipated salary increase is paid in August with a late fee.
President William Ruto had stated that TSC had paid teachers’ salaries with an increase in July, however it has since been revealed that salaries will now be paid in arrears in August.
This is due to the fact that the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) had not finished the review procedure to take the payrise into account.
President Ruto declared on June 30 that starting this month, teachers and other civil servants would start receiving their raises in pay.
TSC New C1 Teachers salary increment
Ruto instructed SRC to begin the process of calculating the salary increase and submitting the results to the appropriate agencies for payment.
The wage increase, which will take effect on July 1, will range between 7% and 10%.
After ending the public involvement exercise three weeks ago, SRC is currently working on the evaluation.
The government departments in charge of paying teachers and other civil officials would then be able to implement the raise after the commission publishes the new salary in the gazette.
The amount that teachers and government employees will receive following the hike is unknown.
“The implementation date of the increase is crucial. Even if they don’t receive the rise this month, they will still receive it in the future, after July, according to one source.
Because the 2024 Finance Act was stopped by the courts, teachers did not have a 1.5% housing fund deduction from their pay in July.
If the High Court lifts the freeze order, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has stated that it intends to backdate the taxes it hasn’t collected while the contentious Finance Act 2024 has been suspended.
This will be a double blow to teachers and other salaried workers who were exempt from the July deductions.
Following an appeal by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung’u to have the orders blocking execution of the revenue-raising bill overturned, the Court of Appeal is scheduled to render its decision.
The lifting of the orders would result in the implementation and retroactive application of provisions with an effective date of July 1, 2024, such as the introduction of a housing tax deduction at 1.5 percent of gross income, matched by another 1.5 percent from the employer.