The Salaries and Remuneration Commission has introduced new regulations to improve transparency, link pay to performance and help control Kenya’s rising public wage bill.
The SRC had reviewed and proposed new hardship allowance rates and was expected to advise the public service once hardship areas were officially gazetted.
The wage-bill-to-revenue ratio in county governments remains above the 35 per cent threshold but shows a gradual improvement.
Ali Abdullahi Surraw sworn-in as the new SRC Commission Secretary and CEO, ceremony administered by Chief Justice Martha Koome