Question NW531 to the Minister of Basic Education

Reply:

Teachers have a performance management system referred to as the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS) which can be used for the determination of incentives and performance-related pay. Presently, teachers receive a performance-related pay progression of 1% per annum. Collective Agreement 1 of 2008 of the Education Labour Relations Council provided a mechanism whereby teachers would be incentivised to remain teaching by providing them with an accelerated pay progression. However, this was abandoned in Collective Agreement number 4 of 2009.

In order to address the performance-related pay and incentives for teachers as called for in the National Development Plan, the President established the Presidential Remuneration Review Commission in August 2013.

The Commission was appointed to investigate remuneration and conditions of service in the public service and public entities listed in Schedule 3A and 3C of the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act No. 1 of 1999) (PFMA). Priority attention would be on the remuneration of educators, including matters relating to organisational development, job evaluation and grading, recruitment, appointment and promotion, human resource planning and utilisation, and performance management systems, policies and practices.

In order to implement the expectations of the National Development Plan in this regard, the Department has submitted its inputs on these matters to the Presidential Remuneration Review Commission which will release its report to the President in August 2017.