TSC Chief executive officer Nancy Macharia (Photo / nation.co.ke)
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has said that about 100,000 Teachers will not get their leave allowances at the end of January due to a technical hitch at the Commissions system.However, TSC has said that the allowances will be paid in February.The Head of Communication at the Commission Kihumba Kamotho, apologized to the 102,619 teachers in a statement saying that the Commission is working to correct the errors and they will be paid in due course.He said that the software malfunctioned making Teachers to be underpaid between sh 2000 and sh 5000."TSC will rectify this in next month’s salaries," Kamotho said.The allowances was a key part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that was to be paid beginning this January."It is regrettable that leave allowance for 102,619 teachers has been underpaid as we implemented new pay grades created after the 2017-2021 CBA," he stated, "We want to align their earlier leave allowance with the new teachers pay grades."He assures Teachers that the Commission is working to correct the anomaly.“The commission undertakes to correct the anomaly in the February payroll and pay the correct rates together with arrears accruing from the underpayment in January. We sincerely apologise the affected teachers for any inconveniences caused.” the statement notes.