By GEORGE OMONDIMore by this AuthorStaff providing essential services will continue reporting to work during strikes under a raft of legal changes fronted by the government. Others are providers of air navigational services, meteorologists, fire fighters, fuel distributors and port workers. Under an elaborate section to be added in the Labour Relations Act, union officials face a Sh500,000 fine each or three-month imprisonment if the strike disrupts delivery of such services. In the form that the then president Mwai Kibaki assented to the law in 2007, Labour Relations Act expressly prohibited essential service providers from engaging in strikes or industrial lockouts. The proposed changes say union and employees will be deemed to have breached employment contract in case a strike disrupts delivery of essential services.

Source: Daily Nation April 19, 2018 18:33 UTC