PAYROLL issues affecting teachers are administrative matters between them and the Education Department, according to Finance Secretary Dr Ken Ngangan. Ngangan told The National last night that the Alesco pay system had nothing to do with the current situation involving teachers’ pay. The PNG Teachers Association claimed that the Alesco pay system was “not fit” to process teachers’ salaries and entitlements. “Alesco is a large enterprise payroll system used by a large number of public bodies and private companies in PNG and throughout the Pacific region,” Ngangan said. “The current payroll issues affecting teachers are mostly related to administrative matters between teachers and the Department of Education, rather than the Alesco system problems.” PNG Teachers Association general secretary Ugwalubu Mowana, in a media conference yesterday, said: “Teachers entitlements and transitions are not configured well in the Alesco pay system.” He said 10,000 teachers were put off payroll last week when an auto-suspension was effected and teachers missed out on their eighth pay of the year. Mowana said usually auto suspense catered for deceased teachers, those on maternity leave, teachers who had resigned and teachers not in service but the figure 10,000 indicated teachers who were also teaching for the last four months and were put off pay as well. “At the moment, Alesco doesn’t configure a lot of entitlements for teachers in the system,” he said. “It only runs the normal public service matters and in the public service the way things happen when it comes to entitlement of workers is totally different from the teaching service. “I voiced that in the parliament referral committee in 2014 when Robert Ganim was chairman. “I raised that in the parliamentary office when the Education Department and the Teaching Service Commission were making their submissions. “That is why this Alesco pay system is not appropriate for teaching service payroll and human resource matters in the teaching service.” According to Teaching Service Commission chairman Baran Sori, it was a normal process due to teachers’ resumption of duty summary sheets not received. The National
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