30 billion through the Budget for the financial year 2022 to resolve the teacher-principal salary anomaly issue, the Teachers’ and Principals’ Trade Union Alliance (TPTUA) has decided to suspend the trade unions actions initiated by them demanding a solution to said salary anomaly issue until 20 January 2022, according to the Ceylon Teachers’ Union (CTU) and the Ceylon Teachers’ Service Union (CTSU). However, he said the ultimate victory in the struggle to resolve the salary anomaly issue would be the implementation of the recommendations of the Subodhini Committee, which previously looked into the teacher-principal salary anomaly issue. If the Government fails to do so, we will definitely take action to get our trade union actions back on track,” he said. Accordingly, Minister of Education Dinesh Gunawardena at the time announced that through the budget proposal for 2022, the relevant salary revisions would be given to resolve the teachers’ and principals’ salary anomalies. They then relaxed some of these trade union actions, including by returning to physical teaching in schools, under a work-to-rule campaign.

Source: The Nation November 14, 2021 19:36 UTC