NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 290
DATE OF PUBLICATION OF INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 05/08/2011
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 19/2011
Mr M P Jacobs (ANC-FS) to ask the Minister of Basic Education:
(1) Why the (a) School Managerial and Governance Developers and (b)
Circuit Managers of the Free State are being remunerated at a
lower salary as compared to their counterparts in other
provinces, while they are (i) performing the same duties and
(ii) in the same rank;
(2) whether the Central Bargaining Chamber will ensure uniformity of
salary structures in all spheres of the education sector in all
provinces; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant
details;
(3) whether financial redress will be considered where there has
been under-payments to these educators; if not, why not; if so,
what are the relevant details? CW354E
RESPONSE TO NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES QUESTION 290
1) According to the Persal records of May 2011 there is no evidence that
these categories are paid at a lower salary level in the Free State
compared to other provinces. The Persal data indicates that these
categories are paid within the required salary range between R280 431
and to the maximum salary level of R549 153.
2) The Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC), through the signing of
Collective Agreement 1 of 2008, which is the Occupation Specific
Dispensation (OSD), has developed a customized remuneration
dispensation for educators. This dispensation has ensured uniformity
of salary structures in all spheres of the education sector in all
provinces emphasizing a fair, equitable and competitive remuneration
salary structure in education. The Employment of Educators Act, 1998
also stipulates the roles and responsibilities of educators together
with the levels in which they should be remunerated.
3) There is no need for a financial redress since no underpayments have
occured.
