The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) is pushing to incorporate allowances into basic salaries of civil servants as a way of improving retirement benefits for workers.
SRC will also review the glaring disparity between low-cadre and the highest ranked civil servants since the gap between the salary scale is more than 100 percent.
Speaking in Nyamira County where he led officials of the SRC Commission and human resources experts in a job evaluation sensitisation workshop, a commissioner with SRC, Peter Oloo Aringo, said it was deceitful for the government to continue giving its workers meagre basic salaries with huge allowances which never counted in their pension schemes.
Nyamira County Secretary Eric Onchana who facilitated the forum lauded the move saying by reviewing salaries, the commission was acting for the good of low-cadre staff that are often underpaid.
Aringo also noted that the commission was seeking to review all the allowances that are paid to workers in a view of incorporating them into a lump sum package of basic salary which will be more beneficial to government employees especially in saving for the retirement benefits.
“We will have to review all these allowances paid to the country’s labour force. It is better for employees to get a lump-sum amount as basic salary and contribute a reasonable amount to old-age fund for an assured good future,” said Aringo.
The commissioner said the first step which the remuneration body was embarking on was sensitisation of all civil servants on the looming changes in their perks before technical implementation.
Already, SRC has been to 33 counties.