The Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Kenya official Wilson Sossion addresses journalists on January 30, 2015. With him are other TUC officials. PHOTO | FILE |
Jubilee Government identified the Salaries and Remuneration Commission as the ideal agency to quell all industrial unrest in the public sector.
The Salaries and Remuneration Commission is currently involved in a process of setting the pay and benefits of all public officers.
Unless trade unions move to court to seek an interpretation of the SRC mandate of setting State Officers’ pay and “advising” on the pay of all other public officers, from July this year they will be reduced to welfare associations.
The employers will claim their hands are tied and they cannot vary the figures without further “advice” from the SRC.
Recent events indicate that the Jubilee Government has and will continue to have a rocky relationship with unions representing public officers.
From the outset it would appear the government had no intentions of engaging unions in any way. Many in government appear to have resolved engaging with trade unions is a waste of time, and needs to be outsourced in order to allow government a free hand in running its affairs.
