Nairobi, April 29 -- More than 400 workers at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) took home less than a third of their salaries in the financial year to June 2025, after deductions consumed the bulk of their pay.

Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu revealed that 410 affected workers each lost more than two-thirds of their earnings to deductions, leaving them with less than a third of a combined basic salary of Sh38.2 million, in breach of the law.

The Employment Act of 2007 prohibits employers from deducting more than two-thirds of the basic pay of an employee to safeguard their rightful gains from employment.

"In the circumstances, management was in breach of the law," Ms Gathungu said in her report for the year ending June 30, 2025.

The aud...