Security guards belonging to KK Security are set to receive a handsome pay increment following signing of a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the firm and Kenya National Private Security Workers’ Union.
The lucrative deal was inked by security worker's union boss Isaac Andabwa and KK Security managing director Chris Manning after years of negotiations.
The new agreement will see at least 1000 KK Security workers take home more than KSh 30,000 as minimum basic salary and maximum of KSh 75,000, which is well above what majority of Kenyan employees earn.
The deal, the Standard reported, will however only affect security men and women working with the United States (US) embassy in Nairobi.
We understand negotiations for the CBA that culminated in a pay rise for the KK Security guards kicked off about six years ago and was initially expected to be signed in 2017, which did not happen.
“The CBA was negotiated in 2013. It was to be effected in 2017 but was delayed due to some misunderstandings between the union and previous KK Security management," Andabwa said.
Under the deal, the least paid watchman who previously earned KSh 14,000 will now pocket KSh 21,500 basic salary, KSh 5,000 house allowance, KSh 3,000 leave allowance and KSh 2,500 transport allowance.
Add these to KSh 200 cleaning allowance, KSh 120 night allowance and KSh 150 for daily launch and the total monthly gross pay rises to over KSh 30,000.
The security workers' union boss further clarified the rest of the more than 10,000 guards in the country would have to wait for another CBA after a fresh round of negotiations.
He cited difference in the terms of employment as the main reason why not all men and women working as security guards across the country were involved in the deal the union signed with KK Security.