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Teachers demand pay details
07/12/2006 17:57 - (SA)
Johannesburg - The department of education must give teachers detailed salary advices so they know what money is owed them and what the money is for, says the National Professional Teachers' Organisation of SA (Naptosa).
Naptosa director Dave Balt said on Thursday: "What adds to the confusion is that when payments are made, there is no explanation of what the payment is for or for which period."
He was speaking at a meeting in Pretoria where teacher unions were gathering to declare a dispute with the department about outstanding payments.
Naptosa also called on all provincial education departments to meet their commitments regarding salary increases and grade progression.
'Owed money since 2005'
Grade progression was a project undertaken to remunerate teachers ranked as "good" or above, for their service.
Balt said some teachers had been owed money since 2005.
However the department slammed the unions for "misinformed and inflammatory" remarks about the alleged defaulting of wage increases and payouts.
Spokesperson Lunga Ngqengelele said the department had fulfilled a settlement agreement for wage increases.
The SA Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) said increases and incentives that had been agreed on in April had been paid out to only three provinces. About 200 000 teachers were affected, it said.
Ngqengelele said: "There is really no basis for Sadtu to make such misinformed and inflammatory statements."
He said payments for wage increases in the Free State, Western Cape and Northern Cape had been made by July as in the settlement agreement signed by Sadtu.
Payments being done is stages
Mpumalanga, Gauteng, North-West and KwaZulu-Natal had until the end of December to make the payments.
Limpopo and the Eastern Cape had until March 31 next year to comply.
"Therefore all terms of the agreement have been fulfilled by the department," said Ngqengelele.
- SAPA
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