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TSC withdraws pay appeal from Supreme Court

By BRIAN WASUNA September 9th, 2015 1 min read

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has moved to withdraw an appeal filed at the Supreme Court in the ongoing pay dispute, drawing the ire of the tutors’ union.

TSC has written to the Supreme Court seeking to terminate the appeal filed last week after the highest court in the land ruled that the government should raise teachers’ pay by between 50 to 60 per cent pending determination of yet another ongoing case at the court of appeal.

TSC claims in the letter that the Supreme Court does not intend to hear its application and is bent on ruling in favour of teachers, a position that the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) has objected to.

The teachers’ employer holds that the Supreme Court back-tracked on its own directions to set the application for hearing and instead wants the parties to argue on whether the request for review is admissible in court.

The Supreme Court on August 24 ruled that it had no authority to entertain TSC’s appeal against the pay increment. TSC filed for a review of the decision one week later.

The teachers’ employer argued in its application for review that the Supreme Court had erroneously struck out its appeal.

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SOURCE: Business Daily