Remuneration Policy and Inequalities in Kenya, a Source of Labour Wars: Borrowing From Global Lessons

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