Aden Sugow

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: (b) It has been difficult to harmonise salaries in the Public Service due to many factors. Among these are:- view
• 6 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: (i) Existence of multiple pay setting bodies, for example, Parliamentary Service Commission, Judicial Service Commission, and the Teachers Service Commission amongst others, that review salaries for different sub-sectors in the Public Service, thereby creating disparities. view
• 6 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: (ii) Unco-ordinated awards where labour force sourced from outside the Public Service is paid higher salaries than that of the officers in the same positions that are bound in the Civil Service. view
• 6 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: (iii) Lack of proper guidelines to ensure that collective bargaining agreement awards are agreed within the harmonization policy. view
• 6 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: (iv) Due to poor economic performance in the country, it is always difficult to undertake salary review for all the various public sectors at the same time, thereby always creating that disparity. view
• 6 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: To address all these problems and the above obstacles permanently and ensure complete harmonization of salaries in the public service and thus, equity, a Remuneration Commission of Kenya has been proposed to be created in the new Constitution. view
• 6 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I had explained earlier, most of the sectors have independent statutes that actually set their salaries and terms of service. Over the years, we have been working on this. As I indicated, it is always very difficult to get the same level of remuneration. I feel the creation of that particular body, through the Constitution, will actually bring under one umbrella all sectors in the public view
• 6 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not comfortable with it. A review has been done. The contract of the current Director of KACC ends in September. A new package will be negotiated with the incoming Director of KACC. view
• 6 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with the Member with regard to the Commissioner-General of Kenya Revenue Authority. He is doing a commendable job. This is one of the reasons for the renewal of his contract. However, the circumstances under which these terms were arrived at were different for the two officers. In the case of the Director of KACC, the private sector and international community were involved in determination of how much he would earn. In other words, outside players were involved in the determination of this. It is for this reason that this particular figure is high. ... view
• 6 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, a review has been done for these particular officers. New terms and conditions of service have already been recommended. For example, once the contract of the current Director-General ends, new terms of service and conditions will be negotiated with the person who will take over. The same will apply to the Director of the KACC. As for the general harmonization of all the sectors, the only solution is to establish one body to manage this matter. That is why we have put these recommendations into the Constitution, so that we have one Constitutional Commission that will ... view