Employment and Labour Relations court has temporarily stopped Kenya Airways company from laying off its pilots in anything related to redundancy. In a ruling delivered on Wednesday by Justice Onesmus Makau, he found that Kenya Airline Pilots Association had satisfied the court that their case was not frivolous because of the impugned redundancy pending trial. The judge also restrained KQ from bypassing the Association and directly engaging the pilots regarding any of the issues contained in its redundancy notice of August 7,2020. In court documents, Kenya Airline Pilots Association(KALPA) had moved to court seeking orders to stop KQ from effecting or implementing the redundancy notice issued to the pilots pending the hearing of the suit. Pilots have however on several occasions argued that laying off pilots would not solve KQ troubles, noting that the airlines' main woes are in expensive aircraft leases that are bleeding the company.

Source: The Star August 27, 2020 00:56 UTC