Wage Determination In The Domestic Services Sector In Kahawa And Githurai Estates In Kiambu County, Kenya

Determination and compensation of wages are concepts whose determinants may not necessarily be the same. Different sectors have a stipulated system of pay whereby workers are paid depending on their ranks or job grades, while others use individual characteristics such as education level, sex and work experience. In Kenya, minimum wage determination and fixing form an integral approach of wage setting in the domestic services sector aimed at protecting the domestic workers from exploitation. Despite the Government’s regulations and guidelines on minimum wage, domestic services sector workers wh…