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Come Again on Commuting Allowance?
posted (November 1, 2018)

Another issue of contention is the commuting allowance - which the teachers union says its members are not getting as required.  

Here are both sides of that DISPUTE:

Keisha Young - General Secretary, BNTU
"I know that the ministry if saying that commuting allowances that were not paid beyond 2017 would now not be honored. The BNTU is saying, that our teachers have gone out of pocket, some of them for several years not receiving their commuting allowances and it is not their fault that those monies did not come on time and so the BNTU will work earnestly and even if we have to go the legal route, we're putting the ministry on notice that if we have to go through the courts, we will ensure that our teachers get what they justly deserve."

Deborah Domingo - CEO, Education
"I am not aware that commuting allowances aren't being paid. There is an obligation of teachers to apply for commuting allowance every year. There is also an obligation on the applicant to show proof that they are indeed living where they are living and it goes through approval at the management level locally, at the district education center level and finally at the general manager's level. So having those approvals, the application forms are submitted to the teacher administrative service unit and they would process. So there is no position not to pay commuting allowance or otherwise, that is normally done from one year to the other and the deadline is normally mid-September to get the form in."

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