Teachers and other civil servants have a 55-year retirement age.
The National Assembly has proposed a reform to the law that would cut the retirement age from 60 to 55 years old.
In conclusion, Parliament has been presented with a legislative proposal to lower the statutory retirement age to 55.
The SRC chairwoman, Lyn Mengich, declared on Tuesday that 60 should remain the country’s obligatory retirement age.
The Salaries and Remunerations Commission (SRC) has opposed a proposal to lower the retirement age to 55.
Currently, public employees and teachers must be sixty years old to retire, while people with disabilities must be sixty-five years old.
Nonetheless, a bill to lower the mandatory retirement age to 55 has been submitted to Parliament.
The proposal’s supporters claim that the objective is to give more young people opportunities to grow professionally in the service sector.
Nonetheless, 60 should remain the country’s statutory retirement age, according to SRC Chairperson Lyn Mengich’s Tuesday statement.
She argued that a lower retirement age would result in a greater number of pension recipients since a larger pension obligation would fall on taxpayers.
“It’s true that some countries have no retirement age, but it’s also important to consider the global norm as it gives us a reference point,” she said on Spice FM.
55 is the current retirement age.
“The conversation should center on what functions well for Kenya. When you say that people retire at age 55, you are implying that they are still productive and capable of making significant contributions to the country at that age, even though they are eligible for a pension.
She continued by saying that it would be impractical to fire employees when they are still relatively young and have a plethora of expertise that benefits Kenya’s labor force.
The purpose of the Public Service Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2023 is to lower the retirement age to 55.
In 2009, the government awarded all Kenyans with disabilities who worked in the public sector an extra five years of employment and raised the retirement age from 55 to 60 years old.
The pretext for the study at the time was that the government was experiencing problems covering its massive pension debt as more people were quitting the service.
Embakasi Central MP Benjamin Gathiru submitted a Bill that sought to amend the current Act by forbidding any officer from working as an official for more than six months.
For the six months ending in December 2021, pension and gratuity payments totaling Sh69.22 billion were paid out by the National Treasury.
An audit conducted in 2016 found that 35% of national government employees were between the ages of 51 and 60.
As per the Financial Year 2021/2022 annual report of the Public Service Commission (PSC), 3,958 officers from 47 ministries, departments, and organizations left the service.
Teachers and other civil servants have a 55-year retirement age.
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