Politics and policy
Education secretary Jacob Kaimenyi. PHOTO | FILE
By OLOO WINNIE and SANDRA CHAO-BLASTO
The Ministry of Education says it will challenge the
ruling of the Industrial Court to increase the basic pay of teachers by
up to 60 per cent.
Education CS Jacob Kaimenyi has said that the ministry is
considering going to the Court of Appeal to challenge the Industrial
Court's decision citing the "current economic status of the country".
“We cannot be forced to pay money that we do have
with us right now, we will go to the courts of appeal, and we too are
entitled to take such legal actions,” Prof Kaimenyi.
“The ruling today is something we will keenly
investigate and where we are not satisfied we will take it to the court
of appeal,” he added, underlining the ministry's dissatisfaction with
the ruling.
He was speaking to journalists after attending to a parliamentary committee Tuesday.
The Industrial Court had earlier in the day awarded
teachers a 50 to 60 per cent basic pay increase effective immediately.
The pay rise will be backdated to July 2013 and is payable over four
years.
Industrial Court Judge Justice Nduma Nderi ordered
that the pay increase agreement between the teachers' union Kenya
National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Teachers Service Commission
should be registered with the court within 30 days.
Teachers and the TSC had taken their remuneration
battle to the employment and labour relations court after the January
2015 strike that paralysed education around the country.
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