Kenya Government targets 26,000 ‘unskilled’ workers in wage bill purge

Public Service Commission chairperson Margaret Kobia during the launch of a wealth declaration and capacity building programme in Nairobi yesterday. [PHOTO: EDWARD KIPLIMO/STANDARD]

The Government, through the Public Service Commission (PSC) will not succumb to pressure and retrench workers in a bid to ease the ballooning public wage bill.

Instead, there will be a Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) exercise, which is part of the employee audit in the capacity assessment and rationalisation of the PSC targeting 26,000 civil servants who are said to be unskilled. Most of these workers are those absorbed into the public service from the municipal councils when devolution came into play.