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The Finance Act, 2023 (the Act) was signed into law by the President on 26 June 2023. Unless specifically mentioned, the changes highlighted in this Tax Alert were meant to take effect on 1 July 2023. However, on 30 June 2023, the High Court of Kenya iss
The delivery of clean cooking access to the 1.2 billion people who cook with charcoal, kerosene, and firewood may have a strong localized employment impact. With the challenge of a rapidly expanding youth population and growing job scarcity in sub-S
There are also cases in which employees have alleged discrimination by employers where the court has placed more emphasis on the Constitution as opposed to the Employment Act. The author analyses these cases by focusing on the following issues: the definition of discrimination; prohibited grounds of...
Applications are now open for the2024Government of Kenya Presidential Digital Talent Programme.The objective of the programme is to develop and prepare young ICT graduates to take up employment opportunities that come up in the ICT as well as other sectors. The program provides participants an excel...
The Kenyan Employment Act doesn’t cater for employees in newer platforms brought about by technology or the pandemic times which have necessitated for working from home or virtually. “The law did not foresee a structure where we have this kind of workers and their relationship being different ...
The Appeals challenged the finding of the High Court that Sections 84 of the Act was unconstitutional because it introduced the housing levy as an amendment to the Employment Act without a comprehensive legal framework and was discriminatory to the extent that it only focused on persons in formal...
July 1, 2016 By Sarah Kiarie-Muia The Employment and Labour Relations Courts (the“Courts“) have, in recent cases, introduced additional requirements to the redundancy procedure. Download Article View Article Online
The Public Benefits Organizations (PBO) Act, passed into law in 2013, was meant to fulfil this need. It aimed to establish transparent and efficient regulation of civil space in Kenya, with clear rules on registration and incentives for organisations engaged in public ...
Section 5 of the Employment Act, 2007 mandates employers to eradicate discrimination in all aspects of employment, meaning no one gets sidelined based on factors like race, gender, or disability. However, the Act allows preferences based on job requirements. ...