The Education Ministry says payments to teachers and affected staff in schools should be paid no later than next week Friday, October 29.

The Ministry is reassuring school administrators that it is taking all the necessary steps to ensure that new staff, as well as existing staff with new contracts, are compensated as per their employment agreements.

The Ministry says its 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  October 21.

In an effort to resolve this situation, the ministry is appealing to the affected schools to provide all outstanding documents by Thursday, October 21.

The Education Ministry adds that steps have also been taken to process two other payrolls, one on October 26  and the other on October 28. In light of this, all affected staff should be paid by October 29.

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