Government to initiate employees’ compensation kitty
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Government to initiate employees’ compensation kitty for work-related injuries according to Labour PS Geoffrey Kaituko
Government to initiate employees’ compensation kitty for work-related injuries according to Labour PS Geoffrey Kaituko.
To provide employee compensation for injuries sustained at work, the government will establish the Workers Compensation Fund Authority.
Geoffrey Kaituko, principal secretary for labor, announced that the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA) 2007 and other labor regulations will be examined to simplify worker compensation.
Currently a division of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, OSHA will become an autonomous body as a result of the change, according to the PS.
According to the idea, employers would pay the OSHA a specific proportion on a monthly basis.
If the legislation changes, businesses will only be required to notify the accidents or fatalities at the workplace to the authority, which will then provide compensation.
“Currently the process of compensating workers is unnecessarily tedious and involves even going to court. This will be changed soon,” PS said.
He also revealed that they have written to the Attorney General’s office and Kenya Law Reform Commission to draft proposed amendments to be forwarded to Parliament for consideration.
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Other than OSHA law, four other pieces of legislation including the Employment Relations Act will be reviewed to be aligned with the Constitution.
PS Kaituko spoke on Sunday after returning from Tanzania where he was on a four-day benchmarking.
During the trip, the PS, who was accompanied by the head of the Directorate of OSHA Dr Musa Nyandusi, met his counterpart Prof Jamal Katundu. During the meeting, the two signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to address the welfare of thousands of Kenyan workers in Tanzania.
“There are over, 240,000 Kenyan workers in Tanzania; far much bigger than those in Saudi Arabia yet we have never had an MoU. However now that has been addressed,” he said.
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