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Boom for civil servants as states announces new salaries

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L-R:Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi with Kenya Civil Servants Secretary-General Tom Mboya Odenge, the CS says government committed to undertake win-win dialogue with Union of Kenya Civil Servants to avert a looming strike. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The government has splashed a Sh1.5 billion salary increment for civil servants, ending a looming strike that would have paralysed service delivery.

Calming the strike threat, the government offered a salary raise of a minimum of Sh1,300 for lower job groups to about Sh5,000 for higher job groups and also rolled out improved house allowances of a maximum of up to Sh80,000.

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