Nurses Threatened With Disciplinary Action as CoG Demands Return to Work

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Abdullahi said the Council of Governors was willing to engage nurses on the outstanding issues, but maintained that the ongoing strike was complicating efforts to reach an agreement.

The CoG chair further added that the CBA dates back to discussions held ahead of the 2017 General Election but has never been fully implemented, with the two sides now seeking to resolve the matter through negotiations.

“We’ve tried to negotiate with the nurses and while negotiations were still ongoing they called a strike," he revealed.

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He said the Council had been engaging nurses and was hopeful that an agreement could be reached despite previous positions taken by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) on some of the demands.

Abdullahi also raised concern over the continued strike despite a court ruling declaring the industrial action illegal, saying disobedience of court orders was creating additional challenges for county governments.

The remarks come days after the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) gave the SRC seven days to resolve the dispute, warning that the strike could be extended to national referral hospitals if the commission failed to act.

KNUN Secretary-General Seth Panyako said the union was not seeking fresh negotiations, arguing that some counties had already reached and signed CBAs with nurses and that the outstanding issue was for the SRC to issue letters of no objection required for implementation.

Panyako cited counties including Marakwet, where agreements had reportedly been reached, but said nurses had remained on strike because the required approval from SRC had not been issued.

Abdullahi, on the other hand, said the Council had taken a position that governors and county public service boards should handle cases of employees who continued to remain absent from work in line with established human resource procedures.

📰 Source: Kenyans.co.ke

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