Salaries and Remuneration Commission has stopped the annual salary reviews for all civil servants.
In a statement, the SRC on Thursday said it will not review salaries for civil servants for the next two years in a bid to stabilize the economy, citing Covid-19 constraints to the budget.
The commission in March 2021 said it will harmonise allowances paid to various cadres of state officers adding that allowances paid for similar purposes will be merged and renamed while those whose rates are not equal to purpose will be changed.
SRC said it was aiming at minimizing disparities in gross remuneration package with the ultimate purpose being to cap allowances at 40 per cent of basic pay.
In 2020 the Lyn-Mengich led commission petitioned President Uhuru Kenyatta to reject the Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Bill, proposing that MPs who retired between 1984 and 2001 receive a monthly pension of Ksh100,000 shillings for life.
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Last month it emerged that President Kenyatta will get Ksh72 million as his send-off package when his term ends in 2022 August.
Retired presidents are entitled to fuel, entertainment, house allowances, and a taxpayer's monthly pension. Taxpayers further cater for his four cars, medical cover, an office, two personal assistants, secretaries, messengers, drivers and bodyguards.
Additionally, the deputy president and other selected state officials will receive a package that will see the budget increase by Ksh150 million.
Members of Parliament will also benefit from this arrangement with the budget for the financial year 2021-22 showing that the bill will increase by Ksh844 million.
