CoG chairman Josphat Nanok at a past function. [Photo/The Star]
Nurses who are yet to report to work after their strike was declared illegal and unprotected risk sacking, the Council of Governors (C0G) has said.
According to council’s chairman, Josphat Nanok nurses are expected to report to work with immediate effect the Employment and Labour Relations Court, on September 1, dismissed their case.
Nanok has now asked the Kenya National Union of Nurses (Knun) to officially end the strike for the sake of the suffering Kenyans.
The new demands from the governors come at a time when health care services have been paralyzed in different hospitals across the nation of the stalemate on Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). Nanok said that the counties will have no choice but to fire all the nurses and replace them with willing ones.
“Our consultative meeting reiterated the resolution of the council meeting of August 31, 2017, that all nurses who have not returned to work stand sacked and thereafter, the counties advertise their positions,” said Mr Nanok, as quoted by Nation after a consultative meeting in Nairobi on Friday where different stakeholders attended to discuss nurses and clinical officers’ strikes.
On his part, Knun secretary-general Seth Panyako faulted the governors of not listening to the plight of the nurses and other medical practitioners before making a decision.