CS Warns Civil Servants of Salary Freeze for Ignoring New Directives
The CS reiterates that the country's employment sector is in jeopardy, with the government flagging various malpractices that it seeks to put an end to...
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Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Geoffrey Ruku, has warned that state agencies failing to adopt the new Human Resource Information System (HRIS) risk having their salary payments frozen.
- Only 47 out of 575 state agencies are currently onboarded onto the HRIS platform.
- The directive impacts institutions including the National Police Service and Kenya Defence Forces.
- CS Ruku cited examples of payroll fraud, including ghost workers and irregular allowance payments, which the new HRIS aims to curb.
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