REVEALED: How State House, DP’s Office Violated Employment Laws – Auditor General
According to a recent report by the Office of the Auditor General, the State House and the Office of the Deputy President are being investigated for violations of many employment rules during the fiscal year 2023/2024.
According to the report, members of staff at the State House and the Office of the Deputy President earned a net compensation of less than one-third of their basic salary during that time, violating the Employment Act of 2007.
According to the report, 78 State House staff members and 42 members of the Deputy President’s Office received a net wage that was less than one-third of their base income.
Section 19 of the Employment Act of 2007 says that an employer’s deductions from employees’ pay or salaries must not exceed two-thirds of their total wages or salaries at any time.
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“Analysis of the payroll records for the year under review revealed that seventy-eight (78) members of staff earned a net salary of less than a third of their basic salary. This was contrary to Section 19(3) of the Employment Act, 2007 (Revised 2012),” the report stated.
“It provides that the total amount of all deductions that may be made by an employer from the wages of an employee at any one time shall not exceed two-thirds of such wages or such additional or other amount as may be prescribed by the minister, either generally or in relation to a specified employer or employee, class of employees or class of employers, or any trade or industry,” it added.
Furthermore, the research indicated that the Office of the Deputy President violated the statute on ethnic diversity.
According to the Auditor General, 249 of the 542 employees in the Office of the Deputy President were from a single ethnic group, which violates the National Cohesion and Integration Act of 2008.
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The Act requires that no public establishment employ more than one-third of its workforce from the same ethnic community.
“Review of human resources and personnel records provided for audit revealed that the Office of the Deputy President had five hundred and forty-two (542), employees, out of which 249, or 46% of the total number of employees, were from one ethnic community,” the report stated.
“This was contrary to Section 7(1) and 7(2) of the National Cohesion and Integration Act, 2008, which provides that all public establishments shall seek to represent the diversity of the people of Kenya in the employment of staff,” it added.
The Office of the President and the Office of the Deputy President were each allocated Ksh 3.58 billion and Ksh 2.60 billion for the fiscal year 2023/2024, respectively.
REVEALED: How State House, DP’s Office Violated Employment Laws – Auditor General
