The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion says teach­ers are still with­out a clear time­line for re­ceiv­ing salary ar­rears and back­pay for the 2020-2023 pe­ri­od, de­spite as­sur­ances from the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion that cal­cu­la­tions are al­most com­plete.

In a state­ment is­sued to­day fol­low­ing a meet­ing with the Min­istry on Thurs­day, TTUTA pres­i­dent Crys­tal Ashe said the union raised sev­er­al ur­gent con­cerns af­fect­ing ed­u­ca­tors, in­clud­ing de­lays in back­pay, con­tract re­newals, leave clas­si­fi­ca­tion is­sues and what it de­scribed as a non-func­tion­al Em­ploy­ee As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (EAP).

Ac­cord­ing to TTUTA, Min­istry of­fi­cials said they had com­plet­ed “100 per cent cal­cu­lat­ing” of back­pay and were “40 per cent check­ing and au­dit­ing,” with the process ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed by the sec­ond week in June.