The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has filed a petition challenging a court order directing them not to penalize teachers who were engaged in the 5-week strike, which was suspended by the Employment and Labour Relations Court.
The Labour court, through Justice Nelson Abuodha, had instructed the teachers' employer not to victimize any tutor involved in the industrial action and also to pay them their September salaries.
TSC, however, refuted the court's ruling and released a payroll which indicated that over 245,000 teachers would miss their September salaries.
According to TSC, only 42, 973 teachers would receive their pay, majority on the list being principals, their deputies and heads of department who were in schools despite the nationwide industrial action.
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Last week, Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary General Wilson Sossion alluded that he had information incriminating the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) on the issue of hiring the 70,000 relief teachers despite a court directive obstructing them to do so.
Sossion said that TSC had been instructed to hire the tutors in preparation for the lapse of the 90 day suspension of the strike that was ordered by the court.
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