Bank Ordered to Pay Ex-Employee Ksh38 Million
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A former employee of a Kenyan Bank will be smiling all the way to another bank after her former employer was ordered to pay her Ksh38 million.
Minnie Mbue, who was an executive at the Bank, was awarded the money by the Court of Appeal after suing for unfair dismissal.
The bank had made an application seeking to have a directive to make the payment frozen until it files a suit challenging the award at the Supreme Court.
The Appellate, however, dismissed the suit noting that the case did not meet the threshold of a Supreme Court hearing.
Court upholds Sh38m award in Jamii Bora boss unfair sacking suit
Monday April 05 2021
By JOSEPH WANGUI
Former Jamii Bora Bank executive director Minnie Mbue is now Sh38 million richer after the Court of Appeal rejected a request by the microfinance to suspend a judgment in which she was awarded the amount as compensation for unfair sacking.
The lender, which is now known as Kingdom Bank after its acquisition by the Co-operative Bank, wanted Ms Mbue to be barred from demanding the money pending determination of its request to challenge the award at the Supreme Court.
But the three-judge bench said nothing in the bank’s case constitute matters of public interest to warrant a move to the Supreme Court.