Top news items in major Kenyan media outlets

The following are news highlights in Kenyan media outlets on Monday.

-- Health workers start work boycott Monday to push the government to implement a Collective Bargaining Agreement they signed in June 2013. The strike follows a 21-day notice they issued on November 14, which has expired.

Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union officials said that their members are keeping off hospitals because the government had dishonoured the agreement for three years. The medics are pushing for review of job groups, promotions, deployment and transfer of medical officers, as well as good remuneration. Their strike, however, is in defiance of pleas from the government and a temporary order by the Employment and Labour Relations Court on Friday stopping the industrial action. (Daily Nation)

-- Kenya's education system 8-4-4 is set to be replaced Thursday with a new curriculum whose implementation would start on a pilot basis early next year. The current system that is characterized by cutthroat national exams will be substituted with continuous assessment tests that will run throughout the learning process. (The Standard)

-- Opposition leader Raila Odinga warns that he will not accept results of a rigged election in next year's poll and accused the electoral commission of scheming to steal in favour of the ruling Jubilee coalition. Odinga said any decisions made by the current commissioners are null and void because they are in office illegally. (The Star)

-- Shilling is set to stabilize this month after volatility in November as U.S. dollar demand from corporates eases with December diaspora inflows set to rise. (Business Daily)

-- One of the outcomes of the Second High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation held in Nairobi last week was a commitment by the European Union to step up efforts to meet its financial obligations to the developing countries and poor nations. (People Daily) Endit