Salaries Commission alarmed by duplication of roles at county level

POKOT, KENYA: The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has advised county governments to recruit optimum number of employees that will give efficient service delivery rather than have more staff performing similar duties.
SRC Chairperson Sarah Serem noted that most counties were still employing more staff who perform similar or related functions contributing to burgeoning public service sector wage bill which the government is keen to control.
She said the commission has no say in the number of employees counties wish to recruit but rather looks at the wage bill limited to the values.
However, she noted that whereas the commission is trying to bring the wage bill down, recruitment of more staff by county governments was shooting it up again.
But notably, she added, some of the positions created by the county public service boards tend to have almost similar functions which meant employees performed similar functions.