THE Teaching Service Commission (TSC) will begin a review of teachers’ pay increments, allowances and other issues concerning the welfare of teachers in the country. TSC said this comes after receiving documentation on teachers’ welfare issues from the Papua New Guinea Teachers Association (PNGTA) recently. This would be the first round of negotiations by both organisations in addressing teachers’ issues in the country, according to TSC. PNGTA vice-president Shenell Kou said some of the issues captured in the document included teachers’ housing allowances, salary fixation, training and other important issues. “The document that we have given you is a working document, once this meeting is over, we can take the suggestions from you, take into consideration and change whatever you want to change so that other meetings will be called for discussions going forward,” Kou said.
“If a teacher is committed that means he is satisfied, if the teacher is secured, he knows that his position is properly done and he is paid at a proper salary level, then he knows that his job is secured.” Kou said quality education meant quality teachers. “In this negotiation we are saying whatever agreements we had in 2016 to 2017, we leave them as that, we do not want to increase any percentage. However, we have calculated from 2020 -2025 based on the figures we have for 2016 and 2017, these are contained in the document,” he said. TSC chairman Samson Wangihomie said TSC would look at highlighted issues before commenting. He said after the comments, TSC and PNGTA would continue discussions until an agreement was reached. The National / PNG Education News Also read Comments are closed.
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