The Kenya Union of Civil Servants has moved to court seeking to quash a decision by the Salary and Remuneration Commissions (SRC) freezing their members salary hike.....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
SRC issued a circular on July 18, 2024 freezing the salary implementation for all public officers for the year 2024/2025 .
According to the SRC chair, the decision was informed by the lack of budget for implementation of the advised remuneration and benefits for all other public officers for the year.
However ,the unions Secretary General Tom Odege argues that the circular goes against the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) signed on September 11 last year.
The CBA according to his affidavit was in respect to all civil servants who fall within job groups CSG 17- CSG 8 of the national government whether deployed at the national or county government level excluding national police service, prison warders, national intelligence service, teachers under the teachers service commission and any other categories of staff agreed between the government and the union.
The negotiated salary was to be implemented in two phases. The first phase was to cover the period of July 1 2023, to 30 June 2024. The second phase was to cover July 1 2024 to June 2025.
“In that agreement we undertook to ensure that employees in service shall receive an annual salary increment as contained in the basic structure for the respective grades,”
The union has faulted the state agency for deciding to freeze implementation of its members salary review despite the existence of the CBA….CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ARTICLE>>>
