Laikipia governor Joshua Irungu signs return-to-work agreement with medics
Laikipia County governor Joshua Irungu yesterday signed an agreement with sacked doctors on terms and conditions of resuming duties from today. The governor successfully agreed with the medics that they return to work as the government look for funds to compensate them as the previous administration was ordered by the court. Addressing journalists after hours of meeting with the doctors representatives at the county offices in Nanyuki Town, the governor said his government would embark on working on a law that will safeguard the interests of medics and other workers. He said they agreed that the medics will be paid arrears for 27 months out of the 40 months that they have been out of the county government’s payroll. He said some of the medics will report to duty from today while others will be joining them in a month's time after officially clearing with their current employers. He noted that they had also agreed that the nine different cases pending in various courts will be withdrawn after the agreement is deposited in the concerned courts. Some of the details in the agreement that was signed by the county Public Service Board chairperson Mumbi Mwago and the Secretary General of Kenya Medical Practitioners Doctors Union (KMPDU) Davji Attelah states that the arrears amounting to millions of shillings will be cleared by February next year. Further, the board chairperson said they will recruit more medics to address the shortage experienced in the county. Yesterday's move comes from an address the governor made during his swearing-in where he said those medics sacked by the former governor Nderitu Muriithi administration will be reinstated from today. They were sacked after they differed with the administration over implementation of Collective Bargaining Agreement, a move that prompted them to move to court.
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Laikipia County governor Joshua Irungu yesterday signed an agreement with sacked doctors on terms and conditions of resuming duties from today.
The governor successfully agreed with the medics that they return to work as the government look for funds to compensate them as the previous administration was ordered by the court.
Addressing journalists after hours of meeting with the doctors representatives at the county offices in Nanyuki Town, the governor said his government would embark on working on a law that will safeguard the interests of medics and other workers.
He said they agreed that the medics will be paid arrears for 27 months out of the 40 months that they have been out of the county government’s payroll.
He said some of the medics will report to duty from today while others will be joining them in a month’s time after officially clearing with their current employers.
He noted that they had also agreed that the nine different cases pending in various courts will be withdrawn after the agreement is deposited in the concerned courts.
Some of the details in the agreement that was signed by the county Public Service Board chairperson Mumbi Mwago and the Secretary General of Kenya Medical Practitioners Doctors Union (KMPDU) Davji Attelah states that the arrears amounting to millions of shillings will be cleared by February next year.
Further, the board chairperson said they will recruit more medics to address the shortage experienced in the county.
Yesterday’s move comes from an address the governor made during his swearing-in where he said those medics sacked by the former governor Nderitu Muriithi administration will be reinstated from today.
They were sacked after they differed with the administration over implementation of Collective Bargaining Agreement, a move that prompted them to move to court.
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