Salary increments of teachers and principals: Govt. should grant salary increments as promised: General Secretary CTU

By Ranjith Rajapakse  

General Secretary of Ceylon Teachers’ Union claims that the decision to appoint committees to increase salaries of teachers and principals at this stage was absurd and that the government should grant the salary increase with effect from January 2024 as promised.   

General Secretary of the union Joseph Stalin told the media yesterday in Hatton that the employees in state establishments and the public sector institutions expected a salary increase in January.   

“We launched a massive campaign on this demand. A minister of the present government recently said that a committee should be appointed to make recommendations. It is not what we expected. A committee appointed by the previous government had granted 1/3 of the increase and 2/3 of it is due now. Our present demand is for it. It is not required to appoint another committee since it has already been recommended,” he said.  

He further said the ministers of the present government were part and parcel to the protests on the demand of a salary increase of Rs.20,000 to the estate sector and that they must focus attention on it now.