County told to employ ESP health workers

Murang'a County ESP health workers celebrate with the chairman of the National Nurses Association of Kenya, Jeremiah Maina, after the Industrial court ordered the County Public Service Board to absorb them on permanent and pensionable terms. May 8, 2015. PHOTO: DENNIS MBAE/STANDARD]

The Murang’a County Public Service Board (CPSB) has been ordered to permanently absorb 177 health workers previously hired under the Economic Stimulus Program (ESP).

The workers, whose three-year contract expired May last year, had gone to court after CPSB failed to employ them on pensionable and permanent terms as agreed at the commencement of the contracts.