Abstract:
Remuneration is key to any economic sustenance both to
the governments and individuals thus a means to
economic growth and development for a state. This study
seeks to contribute to the many ongoing debates on
remuneration policies and inequalities resulting from
such and make recommendations for mitigations realizing
their link to labour wars. When world leaders adopted the
Millennium Declaration in 2000, they pledged to create a
more equitable world. Yet in many countries, the ladder of
opportunity has become much harder to climb.
Recognizing that there exists in Kenya huge disparities in
the remuneration of public workers since independence;
this has led to frequent industrial wars between the
workers’ unions and the government. Even though the
highest paid worker and the lowest paid worker need to
portray some equity in public service if the economy has
to experience a robust growth and development. This has
become hard to achieve in Kenya as in many economies of
developing world. This study sought to; 1. Find out the
origins of inequalities in public service remunerations’ in
Kenya, 2. Assess the effectiveness of public service
remunerations’ policy in Kenya, and 3. Examine the
relationship between public service remunerations’ policy
and inequalities and labour wars in Kenya. In actualizing
the article, the authors used extensively written work by
other scholars while relying on relevant international and
Kenya’s policy instruments. In the final analysis, the
paper finds that there is necessity for quality interventions
unlike what has been witnessed in the Public service
compensation in Kenya
