Kenyan President implement increase in Workers Wages
Kenyan President Ruto instructed the Cabinet Secretary for Labour to "put in place the necessary machinery" to examine raising the statutory minimum wage
Quick overview
- Kenyan President William Ruto has directed the Labour Cabinet Secretary to explore raising the minimum wage by at least 6%.
- During Labour Day celebrations, Ruto emphasized that many employers have not complied with last year's wage increase directive.
- He instructed the Ministry of Labor to work with the Head of Public Service to ensure compliance and to draft the next wage agreement.
- Ruto also mandated that outsourced workers should have the right to join national trade unions and benefit from collective bargaining.
Kenyan President William Ruto instructed the Cabinet Secretary for Labour to “put in place the necessary machinery” to examine raising the statutory minimum wage by at least 6%. According to the Labour Institutions Act of 2007, this directive was made with due process and tripartite labor relations.
Speaking to workers at the Uhuru Gardens Grounds during this year’s national Labour Day celebrations, the president pointed out that many employers nationwide have not followed his directive.
President Ruto instructed the Ministry of Labor to collaborate with Felix Koskei, the Head of Public Service, to guarantee that all employers follow the directive. He alluded to raising the minimum wage after the “next agreement is put in place.”
There was discussion after we decided to raise wages by 6% last year, and some employers haven’t used the agreed-upon 6%.
Ruto declared, “It is not right; it is not acceptable.. “I am instructing the ministry to collaborate with the Head of Public Service to guarantee that all employers implement the 6 percent pay increase that we decided upon last year and to promptly start drafting the next agreement so that we can move it along in the future.”
Ruto also declared that he had instructed the Labor Ministry and all other pertinent organizations to guarantee that even workers with outsourced contracts can freely join national trade unions and take advantage of collective bargaining frameworks.
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