The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) is committed to cutting down the country's bloated wage bill which is among the highest in Africa.
Commission chairperson Sarah Serem has says the exercise will bear in mind public participation which is a critical requirement in the Constitution to ensure that all stakeholders are involved.
Modalities of how, when and where to engage members of the public will be disclosed once SRC makes a decision on the matter, she said.
“We are going to conclude public participation in the next one month,” she said, adding that the commission will decide on whether to go round or have a central point to engage with the public.
Speaking in Nairobi on Friday, Serem reiterated that the country’s wage bill is unmanageable and unsustainable, citing that Africa, only South Africa, Tunisia and Nigeria have higher wage bills than Kenya.
“The structure of salaries and allowances for public servants consumes up to 50 per cent of the total revenues collected by the government.
We must reduce this to a desired rate of 30 per cent or below for it to make sense,” she said during the press conference. Serem noted that the goodwill from the political class should be nurtured for the commission to attain its mandate.
“The salaries and allowances set by the commission will be final and will not be subject to discussion or debate. There will be nobody to vary what SRC has set,” she added.
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