Four education districts honour retroactive payment to promoted teachers

Oct 21, 2017 News

…Teachers’ union vocalises disappointment

Although a court ruling instructed that the Teaching Service Commission [TSC] review and complete senior promotions outstanding since 2015, reports suggest that some of the promoted teachers are yet to reap the associated financial benefits.
This information was recently shared by President of the Guyana Teachers Union [GTU], Mr. Mark Lyte.
The promotions, he explained, should have seen teachers receiving retroactive payment from September 1, 2015.
According to Lyte, a mere four regions have honoured payment to teachers whose promotions were delayed since 2015. The promotions became effective this year.
The regions that have honoured promotions are: Two, Three, Four and Georgetown.
All other regions including Regions One, Five, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine have failed to make the relevant payments, Lyte informed and, according to him, “there has been no word forthcoming from Region Ten.”
Although a court ruling was handed down last year by Chief Justice, Yonette Cummings-Edwards, instructing the TSC to review its preliminary list of promotions, the promotions only became effective at the start of this school year.
Like the TSC, the Schools Board Secretariat was mandated by a court ruling, to review its preliminary list of promotions.
Based on the information this publication was privy to, a total of 22 changes were made to the preliminary list of promotions that was completed in 2015. It was revealed that the Schools Board list contained a total of 35 appointments. These included promotions for head teachers, deputy head teachers, senior masters/mistresses, heads of department, administrators, senior lecturers and Vice Principals.
The reviewed list revealed 26 appointments reducing the number of appointees by nine. These changes were necessary, Lyte said, due to the fact that some appointees did not satisfy the criteria as set out in the advertisement. In fact, he noted that applicants were awarded points for qualifications that attach no points.
“Generally, GTU is extremely satisfied with the review process, since it indicates that the School Boards were doing their own thing much to the detriment of the system,” Lyte had informed following the review.
He added then, “We are ready to move forward and it is hoped that with the move to have TSC do all senior promotions, employment and discipline in the next phase and onwards that the system will allow for fairer treatment of all applicants.”
The TSC review on the other hand, according to Lyte, revealed over 70 changes. It was found that the TSC found several teachers who were identified for promotions on the previous preliminary list of senior promotions.
It was deduced that these teachers following the court-mandated review were found to not be suitably qualified for positions for which they had applied.
According to Lyte, “The union feels vindicated that its call for a review has yielded substantial changes. I have perused the document [new promotion list] and found that there are 73 changes and that includes people changing in terms of the names that were on the previous list.”
All of the eventually promoted teachers should have seen upward adjustments to their salaries but, according to Lyte, this has not been the case.
This issue has been listed among several other concerns that the GTU has been vocalising its concern about. In fact the GTU has threatened strike action if its concerns are not swiftly addressed with action.

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