The salaries team is set to conduct a fresh job
evaluation for State officers in county governments to address
discontent among employees in the devolved units.
Salaries
and Remuneration Commission chairperson Sarah Serem said the work, to
start in October, would help analyse factors affecting productivity at
the county level, which were not captured during the job evaluation
carried out in March.
“The commission agreed to
commence the exercise not later than July 2013 to find out what it was
not privy to in the first evaluation. But the procurement process
delayed us,” said Mrs Serem.
She said the evaluation
would cover all employees in county governments who include governors
and their deputies, county executive members, county secretary, the
speaker, members of the county assembly and Public Service Boards.
In a statement to the media, Mrs Serem said the results of the job evaluation would be ready for execution by November 30.
“The
field work and analysis of the information gathered would take five
weeks. Thereafter, stakeholders will be consulted on the findings before
they are released,” said Mrs Serem, who was accompanied by her fellow
commissioners.
She, however, maintained that the
evaluation was not meant to endorse the calls for higher salaries from
some of the State officers in the counties.
The
salaries team boss said the public wage bill must be sustainable as they
respond to challenges facing members of the county assemblies.
She
said in the meantime the commission had approved sitting allowances for
members of the county assembly as it pursues the other concerns raised.
“The sitting allowance for each member is Sh96,000
per month. This is besides a transport allowance of Sh20,000 per month
and airtime allowance of Sh 5,000 a month,” she said.
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