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Jamaica’s Minister of Education has announced that an out-of-cycle payment will be made this month to ensure the 1,155 new teachers who joined the education sector recently receive their salaries in September, The Gleaner reports.
Fayval Williams stated that, following the sudden resignation of scores of teachers together with the subsequent employment of new teachers at very short notice, the ministry has had to implement new mechanisms to ensure the teachers are paid in the month of September.
Under ordinary circumstances, for a teacher to be paid in a particular month, the employment documents must reportedly be submitted by the last working day of the previous month.
“For example, to be paid in September, all relevant employment documents must be submitted to the ministry by the last working day in the month of August. However, given that many of the new teachers were employed this month, the ministry extended the deadline for submission to September 12 and deployed the accounting staff to work overtime and on weekends to process the submissions," Ms Williams explained.
She said the ministry received a total of 782 new teachers' files on or before the September 12, 2023 deadline.
The minister added that, of this total, 624 new teachers' files were processed and 158 new teachers' files were deemed incomplete because they did not meet the required standard to enable payment.
Ms Williams reportedly highlighted that 373 new teachers' files were submitted after the extended deadline of September 12.
“Given the importance of salary payment to our teachers, the ministry will do an out-of-cycle payroll during the last week of September to ensure that the 373 new teachers' files that were received late (after September 12), the 158 new teachers with incomplete files and any other submissions that are sent to the Ministry by September 25 are processed once all required payment documents are submitted,” she said.
The minister said that the Accountant General's office had confirmed that the payroll process has begun, with $2 billion already released into the accounts of bursar-paid schools.
Source: The Gleaner
(Quotes via original reporting)
Jamaica’s Minister of Education has announced that an out-of-cycle payment will be made this month to ensure the 1,155 new teachers who joined the education sector recently receive their salaries in September, The Gleaner reports.
Fayval Williams stated that, following the sudden resignation of scores of teachers together with the subsequent employment of new teachers at very short notice, the ministry has had to implement new mechanisms to ensure the teachers are paid in the month of September.
Under ordinary circumstances, for a teacher to be paid in a particular month, the employment documents must reportedly be submitted by the last working day of the previous month.
“For example, to be paid in September, all relevant employment documents must be submitted to the ministry by the last working day in the month of August. However, given that many of the new teachers were employed this month, the ministry extended the deadline for submission to September 12 and deployed the accounting staff to work overtime and on weekends to process the submissions," Ms Williams explained.
She said the ministry received a total of 782 new teachers' files on or before the September 12, 2023 deadline.
The minister added that, of this total, 624 new teachers' files were processed and 158 new teachers' files were deemed incomplete because they did not meet the required standard to enable payment.
Ms Williams reportedly highlighted that 373 new teachers' files were submitted after the extended deadline of September 12.
“Given the importance of salary payment to our teachers, the ministry will do an out-of-cycle payroll during the last week of September to ensure that the 373 new teachers' files that were received late (after September 12), the 158 new teachers with incomplete files and any other submissions that are sent to the Ministry by September 25 are processed once all required payment documents are submitted,” she said.
The minister said that the Accountant General's office had confirmed that the payroll process has begun, with $2 billion already released into the accounts of bursar-paid schools.
Source: The Gleaner
(Quotes via original reporting)