Gov’t to End Permanent Employment for Civil Servants.
Gov’t to End Permanent Employment for Civil Servants: Speaking during a press conference on Tuesday, Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria confirmed that the plan has Kicked off and is set to be presented to the cabinet on Friday.
Upon approval, all government workers will now be renewed on a contractual basis. Kuria raised alarm about how one million civil servants gobbled up almost half of the country’s tax revenues, contributing to the country’s high public wage bill.
He stated,”Last week, we were in the wage bill conference and pointed out that one million consuming 50 per cent of our tax revenue means there’s something wrong. That is why if the doctors think we are against them, this week on Friday, I will be moving to Cabinet to present a proposal which if Cabinet approves, all government workers from drivers to cleaners to everyone will be converted to contract. No one will be on permanent terms,”
“If you want to be permanent, show me that even your tenure on earth is permanent, we are all on a contract basis even on this earth,” Kuria added.
On matters doctors’ strike, Kuria questioned why the union declined to respect court orders directing the strike be suspended, because of this, CS Kuria ordered the union’s salaries to be suspended forthwith.
He stated, “This circus is over. 14 per cent of the Cabinet and governors have been coming here for three days. The amount of humiliation that we have been taken through by the union is unimaginable,”
“All good things must have a sacrifice. I have instructed my payroll people not to remit the dues for this union because I will be abetting crime and disrespecting court orders. Enough is enough! He added.
Further, he posed why the focus had shifted from the doctors’ strike to personal attacks on Health CS Susan Nakhumicha.
He stated, “I have been around several CSs for Health and in those regimes there were industrial actions but matters were restricted to the issues at hand. But for my sister, there has been a lot of personalisation of matters. The women’s association has not been speaking up about it.
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