PNG Provincial Education Boards Urged to conduct Teachers’ Appointments And Posting.
Papa Department of Education experiences a significantly high rate of staff movement or turnover at the year’s end and beginning compared to other government departments and state-owned enterprises, primarily due to the annual appointment of teachers.
The auto suspension process is a crucial step taken by the Department in ensuring payroll accuracy by removing teachers who haven’t resumed duties after the Christmas and New Year break or who have retired or resigned. Thus ensures only actively teaching staff are paid salaries.
The primary aim of auto suspension is to identify and remove individuals who are no longer actively teaching, including those who have not resumed duties after holidays, retired, resigned, or even those who were fraudulently listed on the payroll (“ghost names”). This ensures that public funds allocated for teacher salaries are used appropriately and not lost to fraudulent claims.
Assuming teachers will return to their posts after the Christmas and New Year holidays, the Department of Education keeps them on the payroll until Pay 7, after which the auto suspension system automatically takes effect.
However, for the first time in history this year, all provinces have managed to enter all their teachers’ Resumption of Duty Summary Sheets (RODSS) from their locations except for Southern Highlands Province.
The Department has extended the auto suspension to Pay 11 on May 30. Provinces that are still collecting or entering their teachers’ data are now being informed that the deadline for auto suspension is Wednesday, May 14, 2025.
Teachers whose data are received and entered after this deadline and are affected by the auto suspension will always be restored on payroll and their pays will be backdated.
Provinces and their Provincial Education Boards are urged to conduct their teachers’ appointments and inform their teachers of their postings well before the academic year closes. This gives teachers plenty of time to move to the locations where they will be teaching.
Approved for release by
DR. UKE KOMBRA Ph.D, OBE. Secretary
