The government has publicized a plan to increase salaries for public servants in the next hundred days.
Gender service cabinet secretary, public service, and affirmative action said that a technical committee would form to make recommendations and review of the appropriate pay rise. Plans for salary increment.
The CS said that if civil servants are well compensated, there will be no corruption cases like before.
There are at least 923,000 civil servants in the country whose remuneration bill stands at more than 890 billion annually.
Plans for salary increment.
National Treasury has been besieged to raise funds to cater for the overstuffed wage bill that consumes more than half of the budget, hindering the completion of development projects.
Aisha Jumwa CS, Gender Service pledge comes at a time when IMF is pushing the government for job slashes and a decrease in the wage bill. Plans for salary increment.
But Aisha upheld the country’s wage bill is controllable and that there is money to provide for the salary increment.
The government last studied the minimum wage for public servants in May 2018 at the rate of five percent.
The latest move is expected to recommence teachers’ efforts to revise the non-monetary CBA it signed with the TSC.
Teachers through their union Knut are demanding a 60% salary increase to be granted to teachers.
Collins Oyuu, the Knut secretary general said the high cost of living has strapped for a rethink of teachers’ salaries.
Oyuu said that they have begun structured cooperation with the employer to see to it that a 60% salary rise is given to teachers.
He called for a review of the 2021-2025 CBA which was sighed with non-monetary benefits.
He added that the 2021-2025 CBA had non-monetary benefits including extended paid paternity leave for male teachers and maternity leave for female teachers.
