Education Unions to protest against Teachers’ salary anomalies, arrears
View(s):The JVP-backed Ceylon Teachers Services Union [(Lanka Guruseva Sangamaya) CTSU] and the Principal Services Union have called for a protest opposite the Ministry of Education (MoE) in Battaramulla next Thursday (28), demanding that the Government clears salary anomalies of teachers, pays arrears and stops asking teachers to carry out work they should not be doing.
CTSU General Secretary Mahinda Jayasinghe said that, since 1997, issues regarding salary anomalies had not been cleared and therefore, they had decided to call for a protest first and thereafter, go for a strike, if the demands were not met.
The Union claims that the teachers are also being assigned duties which do not come within their purview and therefore, the MoE should act to stop such actions.
Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said the Finance Ministry has been informed of the anomaly and it is they who should make the adjustment. “The Unions should be demanding this from the Finance Ministry about clearing the anomalies,” he said.
However, the Unions said the MoE should make the adjustment, as the teachers come within the purview of the MoE and not the Treasury or the Finance Ministry. - DW