End of permanent and pensionable State jobs

Kenyans at a past public rally. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The Public Service Commission (PSC) has stopped employing entry-level State workers on permanent and pensionable terms in a radical policy shift aimed at taming the runaway government wage bill.

Fresh university graduates, diploma holders and other professionals getting jobs in ministries will now be deployed on renewable three-year contracts based on “satisfactory performance,” PSC chairman Stephen Kirogo said Tuesday.

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