Siaya,
Thursday, May 2, 2024
KNA by Philip Onyango
Junior secondary teachers in Siaya today vowed to down their tools next week, accusing the government of failing to implement a court ruling that ordered their employer to compensate them for wrongfully engaging them as interns.
Led by their secretary Andrew Omondi Ochanyo, the teachers lamented that the Teachers Service Commission has been quiet over the issue despite the Employment and Labour Relations Court pronouncing itself on the matter.
He was addressing the media after leading his colleagues in a demonstration along Siaya town streets to demand action from the government.
Ochanyo said that JSS teachers from across Siaya county would engage in demonstrations and give classrooms a wide berth until such a time that the TSC will honour and implement the court ruling.
Teachers Irene Onyango and Brian Mainya said the court was clear that they ought to have been engaged on Permanent and Pensionable terms like the rest of the teachers being employed by the TSC.
They said that no amount of intimidation would force them back to the classrooms.
Addressing the teachers, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Siaya branch chairman Robert Ouko and his branch Assistant Executive Secretary, Omondi K’omondi urged the government to implement court directivesOuko said it was inhumane for the government to engage and underpay the teachers a paltry Sh17,000/= monthly salary.
Courtesy; KNA
