It is a major win for classroom teachers as a new job evaluation finally recognises their huge role in school, setting stage for higher pay in July when their current Sh54 billion pay deal lapses.
A report by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has disclosed that the last job evaluation was skewed, favouring school heads while leaving classroom teachers broke.
The report shows the present job descriptions of the classrooms teachers, based on the 2016/2017 evaluation, grossly undervalued their worth, resulting in poor pay.
It discloses that the present Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), implemented based on the last job evaluation, heavily favoured head teachers as it did not aptly capture classroom teachers’ job descriptions.
“There were significant disparities in the compensation and career progression between the institutional administrators and classroom teachers in the teaching profession as the job evaluation results for 2016/2017 did not adequately cater for the remuneration of classroom teachers. This might be attributed to poor development of job descriptions in 2016,” reads the report.
