Salaries and Remuneration Commission warns of looming financial crisis

President Uhuru Kenyatta flanked by the Chairperson, Salaries and Remuneration Commission, Ms. Sarah Serem officially launches the Public Sector Remuneration and Benefits Policy and Job Evaluation Exercise at K.I.C.C, Nairobi. Looking on from left are Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning, Anne Waiguru, Deputy Chief Justice, Justice Kalpana Rawal and Deputy Governor Kiambu County, Gerald Githinji.PHOTO: BEVERLYNE MUSILI/STANDARD]

Kenya is courting a fiscal crisis caused by a rapid growth of the public sector wage bill, a report by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has warned.

The report titled ‘Public Sector Remuneration and Benefits Policy Framework” dated June 2015, points out that the problem stems from non-compliance with the principles for determination of remuneration and benefits as stipulated in the 2010 Constitution.