Teachers and their employer will on Wednesday return to the Labour Court where a conciliator appointed by the Ministry of labour is expected to file a report on progress of their talks.

Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) have held negotiations since late December in a bid to get an understanding on various issues in dispute.

The parties will appear before Justice Maureen Onyango who has been hearing the matter.

Mr Charles Maranga, the conciliator, has been racing against time in the last few days to get the warring parties strike a deal.

The conciliator was appointed in order to avert a teacher’s strike which had been called by Knut over promotion, transfers, performance appraisal and teacher professional development programme.