The Secretary, Public Service Commission, Nairobi. The Principal Secretary, Ministry of Health, Nairobi. Dear Madam and Sir, STRIKE NOTICE The Union has learnt with great shock and disappointment on how the government is flipping with the welfare of nurses and other health workers without any regard to their constitutional, legal, and the rule of natural justice rights. It is dumfounding to nurses and indeed all health workers that the government has illegally altered their terms and conditions of service to their detriment without consulting the union and the members nor giving them reasons in writing as required by the constitution of Kenya article 47. In relations to this the government has unilaterally removed:- 1. uniform allowance, 2. hardship allowance, 3. medical risk allowance, and 4. a drastic reduced and or removed extraneous allowance, 5. Removed non-practice allowance for doctors. 6. Deliberately refusing to complete the Collective Bargaining Agreement The National government has also proceeded and terminated and or dismissed all health workers without following due process. The county governments on the other hand are busy purporting to be employers of the health workers by producing fake and illegal pay slips. These activities by the government are clearly a violation of any law in existence in Kenya or internationally. As far as nurses and all health workers are concerned and know professionally, level 2, 3, 4 5, and 6 National health facilities belong to the national government, hence, health workers discharging their mandate within these facilities are employees of the national government. Any opinion held to the contrary can only be termed pedestrian, professionally scanty, and mediocrity. County governments cannot purport to produce pay slips for people who are not their employees. It appears that the Public Service Boards are composed of incompetent people who don’t know what they are doing. We therefore call upon the government to reverse these parsimonious attempts to evade their obligation to health sector in Kenya immediately. We cannot procrastinate and wish for manna from heaven when our people are suffering. We warn the government that within 7 days commencing Saturday if the government would not have released all the salary and allowances earned by all health workers across the country, all health workers shall report at government offices to ask for their dues and the pay slips from the Ministry of Health. Those in Nairobi and it’s environ shall report to the office of the president at Harambee house every day at 7:30 am. SETH PANYAKO GENERAL SECRETARY CC Francis Atwoli, COTU Secretary General, NAIROBI.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 07:43:11 +0000
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