UASU leaders. [Photo/File]

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The order issued on Wednesday by Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies while meeting university managers have not gone down well with UASU which has strongly condemned the regulations which are to take effect from January 2018.

In a statement, UASU Secretary General Constantine Wasonga questioned the timing of the directive by Matiangi terming it suspicious and meant to shift focus from the failure by the government to honor the 2013-2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

“This is yet another attempt by the government to divert attention from the current crisis facing the university sector, the failure by the

 government and university councils to pay academic staff at the rates in the 2013-2017 CBA,” read part of the statement.

Wasonga said Matiangi’s remarks is an assault on university workers rights and added that the implementation of the directive would amount to an illegality and would be a breach of employment laws.