The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is advising that all outstanding payments to teachers and affected school staff will be disbursed no later than October 29, 2021. 

In a press release on Wednesday (October 20) the ministry emphasised that all necessary steps are being taken to ensure that new staff employed at the island’s schools as well as existing staff with new contracts are compensated as per their employment agreements.  

The ministry noted that an audit of the submission of employment contracts indicates that in some cases supporting documents such as banking information and letters of assumption have still not reached the Central Ministry.

As such, some staff members will not be paid through the early payroll due on Thursday, October 21.

In an effort to resolve this situation, the ministry is issuing an appeal to all affected schools to provide outstanding documentation by October 21, 2021.

Steps have also been taken to process two other payrolls, one on October 26 and the other on October 28.

The ministry has expressed its regrets for any inconvenience that this delay may cause and is reassuring school staff that these problems will be significantly eliminated with the implementation of the MyHR(Plus) electronic human resource management system by 2022.