The TSC has served 5,000 schoolheads with show-cause letters following their participation in the teachers' strike over a salary increment.
Chairperson Lydia Nzomo said the headteachers and deputies have 14 days to respond, and that they will face disciplinary action for absconding duty.
"Teachers have a duty to teach, they ought to be working as we wait for the court to determine the appeal we filed," Nzomo said.
Speaking during a press conference on Wednesday, she added that teachers cannot earn salaries without working.
This comes hours after Knut secretary general Wilson Sossion said the state should prepare to write more than 200,000 dismissal letters, if it does not honour the pay hike order.
"We are ready to direct teachers to go back to school but only when they have been paid," he said during a Cotu rally on the matter at Uhuru Park Nairobi county on Wednesday.
"This is not a struggle for teachers only; it is for all workers. We will use all means to secure the 50 to 60 per cent pay rise awarded to us by the Labour court".
Cotu Secretary general Francis Atwoli insisted that the government must grant teachers their higher salaries.
"How come the government always seems to have money to put into other projects but not the teachers’ welfare?" he posed during a Cotu rally on the matter.
"How can the President be away when we have a crisis on teachers’ pay?" he added, saying unions are championing social justice, not fighting the government.
On Tuesday Atwoli said President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration faces the nightmare of mass protests by the public sector workforce.
The umbrella body gave the government a seven-day strike notice upon which it said it will ask its members to join the industrial action by teachers and nurses.
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