Image by Noor Islam Kazi from Pixabay.How labor is used in the East African country of Kenya has not changed much in decades besides increased mechanization. For example, today, like in the British colonial days, large farm owners still use day laborers to clear the land, plant, weed, harvest the crop, and any other task requiring many pairs of hands. Usually, these day laborers come into the farm once or twice a month. On the other days, they go to other farms in their locality to do similar menial jobs. They, therefore, expect to be paid at the end of each day they work. In the cities and towns, similar work arrangements can be found in construction and manufacturing.However, what has drastically changed over the years is how the payrolls for this category of employees are created and managed. The most significant change to this aspect of management happened in the last two decades. To really appreciate what has been achieved in that time, one has to go back and explore how day laborers were paid before this period and why the change had to happen the way it did.It had always been near impossible to payday laborers through the bank. Indeed, it was a common practice before 2000 even for permanent employees in both the public and private sector to queue outside their employer\u2019s office at the end of each month to receive their salary in bills and coins.The first reason that it was difficult to payday laborers in particular through the bank is that often there were far too few days in a month that they showed up for work. And even when they show up a couple of days, they always expect to be paid at the end of the day because they are not sure they\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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