Most teachers not on payroll yet

By PHOEBE GWANGILO
ONLY about 12,000 teachers out of 56,000 have submitted their resumption forms to the payroll division of the Education Department, Teaching Service Commission Chairman Baran Sori says.
Sori provided this number to provincial education advisers attending a week-long teachers’ management meeting in Central.
“As of Monday, the report I get from payroll is that a little over 12,000 have been registered at the payroll, so if we are anticipating 56,000 and only 12,000 are being registered, what happened with the rest?” he asked.
“Have they resumed? If they resumed on the first day then who is at fault for not submitting the Resumption of Duty Summary Sheet (RODSS)?
“You sign on the RODSS, you make sure they are issued and if the RODSS has been picked up. This is the fifth week now.
“If we are strict, we will take it as these teachers have not resumed on day one.”
He said teachers who did not start on time according to the payroll record would not get full leave entitlements.
“Remember, the biggest amount of public service money in the provinces is for teachers,” he said.
“You manage teachers, you manage that amount for and on behalf of the provincial government.
“This is one area we can look at saving money rather than approving wastages.”
He warned that RODSS must be submitted before March or the positions would be regarded as dormant until the beginning of the next academic year.
He explained that the Teaching Service Act allowed for 100 per cent leave entitlements for teachers who started work on the first day and finished on the last day of the school year.