Workers deserve to be paid their salaries on time

If the situation does not change soon, COTU should take up the matter and urge the government to pay its workers on time. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Most civil servants did not enjoy the Easter holiday as a result of delayed payment of their March salaries.

There have been threats of a go-slow as a result, and the government should do everything in its power to stop the situation from degenerating into street demonstrations as a way of forcing it to honour its end of the bargain in the employer-employee contracts.

Has the government even considered that this could be fodder for Azimio la Umoja to ramp up its biweekly countrywide demos?

Everything must be done to boost the low morale among workers that could end up slowing their productivity and harm our struggling economy.

If the situation does not change soon, then the Central Organisation of Trade Unions should take up the matter and urge the government to pay its workers delayed salaries that are making life difficult for most of them who do not have other sources of income.

A tweet posted by the President's economic advisor David Ndii implying that workers' remuneration is not a matter of immediate concern is unfortunate and insensitive.

The opposition should join the workers and help pressurise the government to settle their dues.

Letter from Teddy Ernest, Maseno