How Transfer Teachers Can Avoid Payroll Issues

How Transfer Teachers Can Avoid Payroll Issues

Taking transfers to a different school or different district or region is part of the normal processes teachers are supposed to go through once in a while in their career. However, taking transfers can sometimes become an albatross around a worker’s neck at the new work station. We have therefore compiled three major ways teachers can avoid payroll issues after taking transfers to a new school or district or region.

How To Avoid Salary Issues

The very first way to avoid salary issues is to send transfer letters to new stations to demand an assumption of duty letter from the school. Assumption of duty letter is the first evidence that the teacher has actually reported and started work at the new station. In the absence of such a letter, it could be assumed that the teacher did not report at the new station on time and/ or perhaps was using the time lapsed between the old station and new station to do personal things. The teacher could be refused a salary during the gap the teacher was assumed not to be working. The only defense in such matters is the assumption of duty letter.

Secondly, lack of extra responsibility at a new station would deny any financial benefit attached to such a role. The effect of lack of extra responsibility at the new station, especially when the teacher had such a role at the previous school, will mean the teacher will have a reduced salary at the new school. One way to receive the extra responsibility allowance is to beg headmasters to grant extra responsibility to the teacher to continue receiving the extra responsibility allowance and avoid a reduced salary.

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The third and probably the most important action to take is to ensure salary validation is transferred from the previous management unit to the new school as early as possible. Transfer letters will normally indicate the time period the previous school would stop salary validation of the teacher. As though the transfer of salary validation to the new school is automatic or as if it is smooth. It is therefore the extra duty of the teacher to follow up on the processes of the salary transfer to avoid payroll issues.

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