After 56 days, the government and the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists, and Dentists Union (KMPDU) signed a return-to-work formula, ending the protracted doctors' strike.
This follows an order from the Employment and Labour Relations Court for the government and the union to devise a workable plan for returning employees to the workplace by Wednesday.
The judge gave the deadline of Wednesday because KMPDU brought a document to the court on Tuesday that was different from what the government had. If KMPDU misses this deadline, the court must decide the case.
For most of Tuesday night, the union and the government bodies the Ministry of Health and the Council of Governors (CoG)—were huddled in a meeting to break the impasse.
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To facilitate the talks, KMPDU Secretary General Dr. Davji Atellah had, in the interim, moved the doctors' nonviolent protests to an undisclosed date.
Doctors have been protesting the government's refusal to post medical interns and to follow a 2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) on doctors' employment terms by leaving their duty stations since March 14.
They have been in long-term talks with the Ministry of Health, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission, and the Head of Public Service through a committee called the "Whole of the Nation Approach."
However, the negotiations were mainly fruitless after the government offered Ksh.70,000 for the medical interns instead of Ksh.206,000 as stipulated in the 2017 CBA. After 56 days, the government and the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists, and Dentists Union (KMPDU) signed a return-to-work formula, ending the protracted doctors' strike.
This follows an order from the Employment and Labour Relations Court for the government and the union to devise a workable plan for returning employees to the workplace by Wednesday.
The judge gave the deadline of Wednesday because KMPDU brought a document to the court on Tuesday that was different from what the government had. If KMPDU misses this deadline, the court must decide the case.
For most of Tuesday night, the union and the government bodies the Ministry of Health and the Council of Governors (CoG)—were huddled in a meeting to break the impasse.
In order to facilitate the talks, KMPDU Secretary General Dr. Davji Atellah had, in the interim, moved the doctors' nonviolent protests to an undisclosed date.
Doctors have been protesting the government's refusal to post medical interns and to follow a 2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) on doctors' employment terms by leaving their duty stations since March 14.
They have been in long-term talks with the Ministry of Health, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission, and the Head of Public Service through a committee called the "Whole of the Nation Approach."
However, the negotiations were mainly fruitless after the government offered Ksh.70,000 for the medical interns instead of Ksh.206,000 as stipulated in the 2017 CBA.
