Queries as firms pay bosses huge salaries while junior staff struggle

NSE-listed bank shareholders at a past AGM in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG

It’s that time of the year when listed companies have to file information about what they pay their chief executive officers — and critics are questioning the hefty amounts.

This has seen the ever contentious debate of the expanding gap between top executives of Kenya’s listed companies and the lower ranks of workers rear its head again with a section of union leaders and shareholders calling for harmonisation of the pay scales.

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