CIVIL SERVANTS TO FACE SALARY DELAY FOR UNKNOWN TIME

Written by on July 26, 2023

Civil servants, including employees at various State agencies, will go without their due salaries for this month for an unknown period.

This is after the government revealed it is experiencing a major technical hitch affecting the processing of State payrolls. The Ministry of Public Service yesterday said the ongoing upgrade to a new payment system for government salaries which seeks to boost the management of government payrolls that have in the past been marred by ghost workers had encountered hitches.

The digital based platform dubbed the Unified Human Resource (UHR) system also seems to avoid double payment of workers at the two levels of governments and eliminate loopholes for corruption.

“This is to inform you all that there has been a delay in processing of salaries for the month of July 2023, due to the logistic challenges occasioned by the migration of the old manual Integrated Payroll and Personnel Database (IPPD) system to the New Online Unified Human Resource (UHR) system,” said a memo announcing the expected salary delays to government staff.

Workers said that the delays come at a bad time when Kenyans are facing high standaards of living.

Financial institutions including commercial banks, microfinance institutions and Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies (Saccos) also raised jitters over the inability of tens of thousaands of civil servants to meet their loan obligations due to the expected delayed salaries.

This is the second time State workers will be facing salary delays this year after another one in April. The government however linked the unprecedented salary delays for civil servants at both the national and county levels to an acute cash crunch.


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