Blow Public Servants As SRC Stops Salary Increment

No Salary Increment For Public Servants

The salaries and remuneration commission (SRC) has cited high government wage bill, something that has made them to make a decision not to revise salaries of public servants upwards.

In order to tame the high government wage bill, Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has Advised employers not to review salaries of its employees under the advised otherwise.

“Affordability and fiscal sustainability are a key consideration in any collective bargaining negotiations. Employers are therefore advised not to consider any review of financial items where there is no demonstration of the ability to afford and sustain a review among other considerations,” she stated.

The Salaries and Remuneration Commission chair, Lyn Mengich while addressing the 3rd wage Bill Conference at the Bomas of Kenya, highlighted that this move will aid in achieving sustainability and harmonization in the country.

Mengich warned employers against making a review to employees’ salaries in situation they see thy can not afford to pay and sustain such a review in the long run.

The chair further urged institutions to work with 50% of their budget which is the midpoint within which they need to offer salaries.

She urged to working with over 50% should put in measures to achieve the set mark. She also urged those who are above the 50% mark should not reduce but maintain the salaries.

She also asked those institutions that are below the set mark to progressively move to meet the set mark.

“Institutions above this positioning will retain their salary structures whereas those below will progressively be moved towards the 50th percentile,” she added.

Mengich further said the 50% payment mode was devised to ensure that streamlined remuneration is achieved. She Clarified that salary points are determined and developed by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC).

The SRC Chair further said that if there is an employee being paid below the midpoint, the employer should effect the salary increments as set by the Commission to the mark or near the mark.

“We urge all the employers and employees of the unions to realise the state of the economy that this country has, the measures that the government has taken to turn around the economy and also consider that at this time it is not possible to look for additional of salaries,” he said.

This comes even as the doctors are still on strike and have vowed not to end their strike any soon until their salary needs are met and other demands.

No Salary Increment For Public Servants