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Kenya's Industrial Court ordered Kenya Airways to reinstate a pilot it had fired, because his disciplinary hearing was unfair.
Kenya's Industrial Court turned a union-employer settlement into a binding award, granting two 5% wage increases and a house allowance.
An employer who skips a labour court hearing cannot later dodge the award by asking the court to 'interpret' it in their favour.
Kenya's Industrial Court ordered a state water corporation to recognise its workers' union after finding seconded civil servants count as em
Kenya's Industrial Court ruled that workers hired for specific jobs and periods have no dismissal or redundancy claims when that work ends.
Kenya's High Court granted a woman a divorce on unchallenged evidence of cruelty, showing uncontested petitions can succeed where allegation
Kenya's Industrial Court approved a wage settlement but refused to backdate it, ruling employers cannot be forced into arrears that could de
Kenyan employers can discipline employees while criminal cases are ongoing, but must count all continuous service years when calculating pen
A Kenyan court awarded three sacked Gopitex workers full terminal benefits because the employer never filed its defence in time, so the work
A Kenyan school that skipped a labour court hearing was ordered to pay a former teacher Kshs. 84,365 in terminal benefits anyway.
Kenya's Industrial Court ruled that forcing workers to retire before the contractual retirement age is wrongful termination, entitling them
Kenya's Industrial Court ruled that firing an employee without stating the reasons in writing is wrongful, and awarded him over Kshs.569,000
Kenya's Industrial Court ruled an employee cannot be summarily dismissed for intending misconduct that was never actually completed.
A Kenyan employer that ignored a labour dispute lost automatically, ordered to pay Kshs. 52,507.50 after its advocate falsely claimed a sett
A Kenyan labour court allowed a union to withdraw its redundancy case by consent, while keeping the door open to file a fresh claim about un
Kenya's Industrial Court approved a negotiated settlement giving shoe factory workers two 8.5% pay rises, housing and medical benefits, and
Kenya's Industrial Court approved a Kshs.50,000 settlement between a union and Spin-Knit Ltd, ending three workers' wrongful dismissal claim
Kenya's Industrial Court confirmed that employers and unions can settle disputes privately and have the settlement become a binding court aw
Kenya's Industrial Court turned a union-employer wage settlement into a binding award but refused to hear complaints never included in the o
Kenya's Industrial Court turned a signed union recognition settlement into a binding award, requiring a fresh check-off and recognition once
A Kenyan labour court reinstated a sacked tea worker but limited his back pay to 10 months' wages because the case itself took over four yea
A Kenyan union lost its recognition bid because it never served check-off forms proving most workers had joined it.