The Salaries and Remuneration Commission has laid out a new plan that seeks to check ballooning public wage bill.
In the proposed structure outlined on Monday in Nairobi, State officers are set to lose some of their fat allowances and pay cuts.
WAGE BILL
The plan, according to SCR boss Sarah Serem, is to slash the public wage bill by 35 percent and save Kenya over Sh8 billion a year.
Some of the perks SRC scrapped are mileage and special responsibility allowances that SRC said were prone to abuse.
Instead of mileage allowances, SRC has created zones for which State Officers will get a one-month allowance.
“There were claims of up to Sh2 million per month,” Ms Serem said of the abuse of mileage allowance .
Others are governors’ and deputy governors’ allowances.
MPs will also not be paid a sitting allowance for plenary sessions while House leaders, such as the Majority and Minority Leaders and committee chairmen, have lost special responsibility allowances
“We should strive towards being a producing country as opposed to being a consuming one,” she said. -Nation
