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Job grade drama has evolved after the Kenya Magistrates and Judges Association(KMJA) has filed an application in the labor court protesting the salaries and remuneration commission(SRC) decision to put them in the same job grade as MCAs.
The Magistrates want the SRC to review their salaries upwards claiming they do more work than the MCAs.
Despite academic qualifications for an MCA being far below that of a magistrate, the legislators earn more.
“That notwithstanding, MCAs earn an amount for higher bands like the principal magistrate including earning allowances for sitting in committees and assembly sessions whereas resident magistrates, in the same bands, earn less than this and do not earn sitting allowances,” KMJA stated in court papers.
According to KMJA, the job of a magistrate is full time while that of an MCA or MP is regarded to be part-time. Thus the judicial officers are prohibited from getting any other gainful employment, unlike the MCAs or MP.
“Despite this glaring evidence against the order of logic, the SRC has remunerated part-time State officers such as MPs and MCAs better than full-time judicial officers,” read the court papers.