{"id":98233,"date":"2024-10-03T15:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T15:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/kisumu-county-workers-to-stage-march-over-arrears-dating-back-to-august\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T15:03:18","slug":"kisumu-county-workers-to-stage-march-over-arrears-dating-back-to-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kisumu-county-workers-to-stage-march-over-arrears-dating-back-to-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Kisumu county workers to stage march over arrears dating back to August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KISUMU, Kenya, Oct 3 \u2014<\/strong> <strong>Kisumu county workers are set to paralyse activities on Friday as they demand two months\u2019 salary arrears.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kenya County Government Workers Union, Kisumu branch Chairman Boaz Opiyo said the delayed salary payment is by design.<\/p>\n<p>Opiyo said workers will take a salary parade at the employers\u2019 door step on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not strike but will parade to compel the county government to pay us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that in the recent past, the executive heaped blame on the delay in failure by the exchequer to release funds to the counties.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said, they have reliable information that the Treasury released funds to the county on Wednesday, September 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the reason why we are going on a parade. Why not pay us yet the national government has released funds to the counties?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Opiyo noted that workers are undergoing a lot of frustrations pegged to payments of house rents, school fees and food to their families as a result of no salary.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mounting penalties <\/h2>\n<p>Addressing the press at the Union offices in Kisumu on Thursday, Opiyo said non-payment of bank loans has brought more misery to the workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorkers are staring at hefty penalties imposed on them by the banks owing to non-remittance on time to their active loans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He accused the county government for caring less about the welfare of workers who have dedicated their time to offer quality services to the citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Opiyo wondered why the county government has continued to ignore the existence of a Collective Bargaining Agreement, which has remained un-implemented for several years.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the workers not to report to work on Friday, but converge at Prosperity House for the salary parade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe parade will spill into next week if there are no payments of salary to the employees,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The parade will affect key functions including revenue, inspectorate, fire brigade and environment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISUMU, Kenya, Oct 3 \u2014 Kisumu county workers are set to paralyse activities on Friday as they demand two months\u2019 salary arrears. Kenya County Government Workers Union, Kisumu branch Chairman Boaz Opiyo said the delayed salary payment is by design. Opiyo said workers will take a salary parade at the employers\u2019 door step on Friday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}