All employees to be paid70% Injury salary compensation as follows

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Going forward, all the employees will start  receiving a 70% of Salary compensation incase of getting involved in Work-related injury.

According to the new Proposal ,any  employee who is injured during period of work will get  compensated 70 per cent of their monthly salary at the time of getting involved in an accident.

The details of this new proposal are contained in the Worker’s Injury Compensation Bill of 2024, which has been proposed by the Ministry of Labour .

The proposal bill is currently  under the public participation stage and if it sails through, it will become a law.

The highlights in the new bill will be applicable to those workers who at a time of accident get temporary or total disablement where ones becomes unable to perform the work at which the employee was employed  to do.

The proposed bill additionally indicates that it will also be applied when an employee is unable to work a similar job to the one where one contracted temporary total disablement due to an injury.

Sources of funds for compensation 

As contained in the proposed Bill,  compensation of this will be drawn from a government-controlled Workers Compensation Fund.

The workers compensation fund is a new entry or body that will be  receiving employers’ mandatory contributions.

It provides that  the employer under where the employee got injury  shall be held responsible for the immediate payment of the compensation of the first month from the date of the accident.

However, upon fulfilling the injury salary payment, later the employer will then get a refund or compensation of the paid money amounts from the then firmed and working Director General of the Workers Compensation Fund.

In an event  the employer decides not to  not pay the required amount, then he or she  will be held accountable for committing an offence.

The employer may then be held  liable to a fine not exceeding one million shillings.

Employees in a factory sharing work

Employees in a factory sharing work ,Image/Courtesy

Alternatively

The employer may face an  imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years.

Should the bill see the light of the day, all workers in both private and public sectors will be included.

In addition, workers in clubs , cooperatives, groups or as well as other formal association will be part of this .

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