THE STANDARD By
Kamau Muthoni |
February 5th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Pastor James Ng’ang’a in the dock at a Limuru court where he was acquitted of charges of causing death by dangerous driving. [File, Standard]
The Labour Court in Nairobi has awarded a former Neno Evangelism Church employee Sh300,000 as compensation for unfair dismissal.
Christopher Kinama, a church caretaker, was fired by Pastor James Ng’ang’a in 2017 over an alleged car park fees collection dispute.
Justice Maureen Onyango dismissed Ng’ang’a’s explanation as to why Kinama was fired, noting that it was contradictory. The judge also ruled that the church’s management did not give him an opportunity to argue his side of the story before firing him.
THE STANDARD By
Kamau Muthoni |
January 29th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Kenya Airways (KQ) will have to go back to the drawing board after the Labour Court ordered the airline to pay pilots their full salaries during the period they were on leave due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the alternative, Justice Maureen Onyango ordered that KQ should assign the leave taken proportionately to the salary earned during the period, and should not punish pilots who defied a directive to work for more than 12 hours.
The judge, however, dismissed the pilots’ application to punish KQ management for failing to obey orders.
The court apportioned blame for last year’s stalemate to the airline and its employees, finding that the decision by the KQ management to punish pilots who refused to work beyond 12 hours was insensitive, but also that pilots ought to have cooperated with the airline owing to the harsh effects of the pandemic on business.