Primary and secondary school teachers will have to wait for another year — or even more financial years — before getting a salary enhancement as had been hoped for.
In order to improve service delivery and end the challenge of strikes over low pay, President Museveni’s government had proposed huge salary increments for teachers, doctors and other employees starting July 2022. (Read Story Here)
The proposed increments have left many people wondering if government will really fulfill this pledge and increase salaries by very high amounts.
For example, opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye has argued that the promise of salary increment is just ‘another lie.’ (Read Story Here).
Finance Minister Matia Kasaija recently said the money for increasing teachers’, doctors’ and other civil servants’ salaries was available. (Read Story Here).
But the reality has set in.
An economy battered by the Covid19 pandemic, rising public debt and competing priorities have meant that government has had to adopt a phased model of salary enhancement. (Read Story Here).
And as we have since reported, the Ministry of Public Service has confirmed that Shs400bn will be set aside for the enhancement of health workers’ salaries in the 2022-2023 financial year. (Read Story Here).
What this means for teachers, who are among the least paid government employees, is that they will now have to wait for consideration in the 2023-24 and subsequent financial years.
