THE PNG Teachers Association branch in the Highlands will follow up on the payment of leaves fares to 40 teachers by the Jiwaka provincial administration as the seven-day notice lapses today.
Association’s Highlands regional office secretary John Melson will travel to Jiwaka this morning to see if the provincial administration had paid the teachers. Melson said the Finance Department had released the leave fares to the provincial administration to pay teachers two months before the Christmas holidays but failed to do so. Melson said under the Teaching Service Commission Act, a teacher posted to another province for more than two years was entitled to be paid leave fares at the end of a school year to visit their home provinces. He said the provincial administration should have paid the teachers before the holidays. “Teachers leave fares problems is an on-going problem in Jiwaka. In 2014, the same thing happened - 72 teachers didn’t receive their leave fares,” he said. Melon said the association would pursue the matter until the teachers received their leave fares– even though the holidays were over and classes had resumed for the new year. The National
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