The SRC released a new job structure for the country’s over 600,000 public servants which seeks to, among other things, bridge the gap between the highest and lowest pay earners.
“SRC has been lying to us for 17 months using the job evaluation thing to delay our CBA and pay increase. Yesterday, they released a report full of nonsense with no figures of what exactly a doctor should earn,” KMPDU Secretary General Ouma Oluga said at the Nairobi Public Service Club.
“We are tired of waiting and are today issuing a 21-day strike notice to start on December 5 if we do not get the agreed 300 per cent pay increase.”
In the pay increase, the highest paid doctor will earn Sh946,000 while the lowest paid will take home Sh342,770.
Currently, the lowest paid doctor earns a basic salary of Sh40,000 that the union Saturday said was too little for their hard work.
“Doctors work 450 hours a month, earning a paltry Sh70 per hour. That is after spending six years in undergraduate, five in Masters education and then on day offs, no holidays and losing a life because of the demands of the job. How then do you pay them Sh70 per hour?” asked KMPDU chair Samwel Oroko.
In Kisumu, the nurses led by the secretary General Seth Panyako said that the SRC, the national and county governments had negated on their promise of a CBA.
Mr Panyako accused SRC chair Sarah Serem of "duplicating job the newly advertised job groups from previous documents".
He said the advertised job groups have been in existence.
"On December 5, services in all public hospitals will be paralysed should the government fail to heed to our demands. The salaries commission has misled the public,” said Mr Panyako during the union's national governing council meeting at the Tom Mboya Labour College in Kisumu on Saturday.
“The CBA we agreed on was never signed, concluded with proper financial allocation made.
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