The Following Government Employees Set to Lose Three Allowances
The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has tabled a move that seeks to scrap three allowances payable to government employees.
According to SRC ,the scrap for these allowances is a bid to cut down the wage bill.
Following ba circular that was released by SRC chair Lyn Mengich there is need to have the retreat allowance paid to public officers as well as the sitting allowances for members of institutional internal committees be scrapped.
In addition, the Taskforce allowance is also expected to be removed for members of such internal institutional task forces .
The move will be implemented upon recommendations by the Commission becoming accepted .
The SRC Mengich argues that payment of the retreat allowances is to be avoided since basic salary amounts to double compensation.
Mengich argues further that job responsibility that is factored in determining the relative worth of a job during a job evaluation hence the results of which inform the remuneration of a job.
Mengich’s letter was addressed to the Attorney General, the Controller of budget,the Auditor General as well as various state agencies in national and counties.
Mengich says that the retreat allowance is paid to public officers participating in special assignments meant to review, to ensure development and production of policy documents away from their workstations.
Henceforth , the members who have been earning the taskforce allowance, as per to Mengich shall not be paid for more than one taskforce for the same period of time and will only be paid for a maximum period of 15 days in a month.
The Following Government Employees Set to Lose Three Allowances