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Rs.1,600 m for teachers' pay hike

Cabinet nod to rectify salary anomalies of principals, teachers :

COLOMBO: The Treasury has pledged Rs.1,600 million to implement the recommendations of the Salaries and Cadre Commission to rectify the salary anomalies of teachers' and principals' services, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha disclosed yesterday.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has approved the recommendations of the Salaries and Cadre Commission to remove the salary anomalies of the 200,000 teachers and 16,000 principals, Minister Premajayantha told the weekly Cabinet press briefing yesterday.

The Government as a policy has accepted the Cabinet memorandum submitted for the rectification of salary anomalies in the Sri Lanka Teacher's Service and the Sri Lanka Principals' Service.

The Cabinet has also given its approval to allocate Rs.1,600 million to implement these recommendations made by the Salaries and Cadre Commission.

There are five salary scales in the teachers' and principals' services. After these salary scales are formulated, the circular will be released. Before this circular is issued, the Ministry will release a circular outlining the policy decision taken on this issue. It will further ensure that these recommendations have been approved by the Cabinet.

The Minister said the Salaries and Cadre Commission has made these recommendations considering the salary scales of the parallel services in all other state sectors.

"Teacher trade unions may not agree to these recommendations. But the Ministry is going to rectify the salary anomalies of teachers and principals. If the trade unions demand, there is no possibility of addressing all these salary anomalies at once."

The Ministry has requested trade unions to accept this recommendation as an interim solution and move to the next stage in keeping with the pay hike of state sector employees.

This Government for the first time has accepted as a policy that there is a salary anomaly in the teachers' and principals' services, the Minister said.

"It is our responsibility to implement these recommendations. The salaries of all teachers and principals will be increased based on their grades."

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