Head of the Public Service Francis Kinyua. [Photo/ businessfaily.co.ke]
The government has said that staff in the state corporations that are to be merged will be deemed to be automatic employees of the new entity with some being deployed to other areas.
The government is planning to merge six corporations; Kenya Industrial Estates, Youth Enterprise Development Fund, Women Enterprise Development fund, Development Bank of Kenya and IDB Capital Limited in to one major unit to avoid overlapping of service delivery to the public.
In a report developed by a taskforce that is advising on the merger says that the employees will still be accommodated.
“All the staff serving in state agencies being merge shall be presumed to be the staff of the new government owned entity,” the report reads in part.
“Any staff found not to be fitting in the establishment structure maybe redeployed elsewhere in the public service or offloaded in the normal manner,” the report further reads.
The government’s intention is to have the said corporations together in order to increase efficiency, reduce overlaps and make good use of state resources to achieve economies of scale thus improving service delivery.