By MAUREEN KAKAHMore by this AuthorThe Employment and Labour Relations Court has granted reprieve for workers of a shoe firm after it ordered that they should be employed on permanent terms. Justice Nderi said that the company violates the workers’ right if it insists on employing the unionsable employees on a fixed term contract. According to the workers, they claimed that they have a genuine CBA hence demanded to be made permanent employees once and for all instead of working on renewable contractual terms. But their employer had argued that they were under probation and also working on fixed term contracts which are renewable. Whilst they argued that this is the justification of employing personnel on fixed term contracts considering that they are remunerated competitively and comparatively for work done, the judge dismissed these claims.

Source: Daily Nation January 24, 2017 17:00 UTC