NGO Board Director Fazul Mohamed says that there exists a huge salary difference between Kenyan and foreign working in the same organization and have equal qualification and skills.
Addressing press Fazul Mohamed says a huge salary disparity also exists between Kenyan and foreign staff leading to a trend of career expatriates hoping from organization to organization.
With nearly 80,000 people employed in the NGOs based in Kenya, the inside politics and mischief have gotten the attention of the government.
“You only employ expatriates where there are no skills available locally; and there is differential treatment between international and local staff. International staff earns 4 times what a Kenyan earns for the same job, with comparable skills and qualifications,” said Fazul.
"The NGO board has issued a circular to all HRMs of international and local NGOs to harmonize the salaries between local and international staff,” said the NGO Board Director, Failure to which the NGO and the Human Resource Managers involved will face legal sanctions. Will these bear fruit to Kenyans working in non-governmental organization?
Apart from the normal salaries which four times more than their Kenyan peers, foreigners are apparently enjoying house allowances in suburban estates, they would be allocated a car and their children would learn in high-end international schools at the expense of the NGOs, that would not have the same granted to Kenyan staff.