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Kenya's Employment Court ruled that a time-bar defence based on disputed promises to pay must be proven with evidence at trial, not struck o

Kenya's Employment Court confirmed it cannot extend the three-year deadline for filing employment contract claims, even where criminal charg

Kenya's Employment Court ruled that whether someone was truly your employer must be decided at trial, not thrown out early on a technicality

Kenya's Employment Court refused to reopen a Kshs. 35 million judgment against Golden Lion International, ruling that disagreements with a d

Kenya's Employment Court dismissed a Kshs. 5.3 million claim because the claimant was a consultant, not an employee, so the court had no jur

Kenya's Employment Court ruled that an employer's HR manual is not law, so claims about breaching it must be decided at a full hearing with

Kenya's Employment Court ruled that embassy staff hired locally can sue their embassy employer despite diplomatic immunity claims.

A Kenyan bank lawfully dismissed a treasury employee for negligence, and she must now repay her staff loan at commercial rates.

The Employment Court declined to ban nurses' strikes, ruling that a negotiated Return-to-Work Formula—not a blanket injunction—governs the h

A Kenyan employment court dismissed a review application because the applicant claimed new evidence existed but never actually showed it to

A Kenyan court ruled that quitting over a difficult co-worker is not constructive dismissal, so the employee got nothing except his certific

A Kenyan court threw out a union's application because it was never anchored on a properly filed petition, so no injunctions protecting coun

A Kenyan employment appeal failed because the worker couldn't prove his former employer actually held the original documents he wanted produ

A Kenyan court allowed an employee's pension claim against Postal Corporation of Kenya to proceed, rejecting arguments that insolvency proce

A Kenyan court ruled that secretly recorded work conversations can be used as evidence if the recorder took part in the conversation.

Kenya's Employment Court ruled that a missing written authority for an affidavit is a fixable mistake, not grounds to strike it out.

A Kenyan court dismissed a decades-old employment claim because filing a constitutional petition cannot escape the Employment Act's strict t

Kenya's Employment Court dismissed 11 Prisons officers' claims to higher rank and Kshs. 26.4 million in arrears because their appointments l

Kenya's Employment Court ruled that a union election dispute raised as a constitutional petition cannot be thrown out just for missing stric

Kenya's Employment Court refused to review its earlier ruling because the applicant had already appealed, so the recruitment process continu

Kenya's Employment Court dismissed meat inspectors' bid to register a new union because their application lacked signatures and a constituti