When will this ageless issue be addressed? Teachers in the country must be given special treatment. They are the engine room of all the human resources. It is very easy to commit K200 000 to the recently gold medalist but taking years to pay teachers dues. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 2000 new teacher graduates still unpaid Sally Pokiton of PNG LOOP, Aug 5, 2014 Almost 2000 new graduate teachers from the teachers colleges around the country have not been paid for the past seven months. According to the PNG Teachers Association President Ugwalubu Mowana, these teachers who graduated last year and are in their first year of teaching , have not been paid as they don’t have file numbers with the payroll. He says their registration forms are still somewhere in Education Department and the process is taking too long for them to be given their file numbers. “Only when they receive their file numbers and these are given to the pay roll then they will get paid. At the moment that process is very slow. “Those 2000 new graduates teaching in the schools, they haven’t been paid yet. “We cannot tolerate this anymore. They haven’t been paid and we want them all paid.” This is one of the four main problems within the Education Department prompting industrial action through a strike. Mowana says ignorance by the department on these issues is forcing them to take action that will have an impact on the education of children in the country. “Everything that we are talking about is possible for the Teaching Service Commission, the Education Department and the Finance Department to do the right thing.” “I am going to call on the Department of Education that if industrial action comes about it is their fault,” says Mowana. - See more at: pngloop/2014/08/05/2000-new-teacher-graduates-still-unpaid/#sthash.4MPxFUYR.dpuf
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:29:06 +0000
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