Heart Trust/NTA head office in Kingston - file photo
Instructors at the HEART Trust/ NTA are reportedly restive.
The instructors are demanding that the agency’s management and their bargaining unit, the Jamaica Teachers Association (JTA) address several work-related and salary issues.
In a two page letter, a copy of which was obtained by RJR News, the instructors highlighted what they said was the reported refusal by the management to honour a salary agreement.
It's understood that, under the agreement, instructors are to be paid a 22.5% differential in salary over their colleagues in the regular school system.
It's understood that this differential is predicated, in part, on the fact that instructors do not get a summer break and work longer hours than teachers in the regular school system.
In the meantime, it was revealed that a reclassification exercise, affecting the instructors, was conducted in 2007. It is being claimed, however, that neither the JTA nor the instructors were informed about this.
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