Teachers’ increment overdue: Singh

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FTU general secretary Agni Deo Singh. Picture: FT FILE

TEACHERS around the country are still waiting for their increment pay, claims Fiji Teachers Union general secretary Agni Deo Singh.

Mr Singh claimed that the morale of the teachers was low and this was a result of an announcement that was made by Government.

He said the first one was the increment pay that was to have been paid out to teachers after the annual performance appraisal that was supposed to be completed and submitted on April 30 last year.

Mr Singh said teachers were required to complete individual assessments by April 30 last year so that a budget could include an allocation for the increment pay.

He said it was announced publicly last year that all civil servants would receive their pay increment by August 1 last year.

“August came and no increment. We inquired and they said the exercise is yet to be completed. We were advised by the Ministry for Civil Service that the increment would be paid in January this year,” Mr Singh claimed.

He claimed the ministry said the exercise would be completed by December.

“After December, you ask anybody in the ministry including the new minister, they will say ‘I don’t know’.”

Mr Singh said the union had meetings with the director of Civil Service and also the minister, who he claimed were not aware of this pay increment.

“Our question is who knows and what happened.”

A copy of Mr Singh’s letter regarding this issue has been forwarded to the Education Minister, Rosy Akbar, who is yet to respond.

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