Time is of essence in fixing discrepancies in teachers’ earnings

Five years after a landmark court battle between the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) and the Teachers Service Commission, teachers are still suffering losses in an unfair pay regime that allows for unjustifiable discrepancies in the pay for various cadres of Teachers Service Commission (TSC) employees.

The protracted negotiations and the subsequent strike by Kuppet in 2015 were based on the fact that the TSC’s grading systems, while similar for secretariat and teaching staff, give the secretariat staff salaries of between 50 and 60 per cent above that of teachers.