EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAWS

The Firm offers advice to business employers, employees, trade unions, and governmental organizations regarding their rights and obligations under employment laws.

Our services include:

  • Offering effective representation where workplace disputes arise and valuable insight into the best way to establish and implement realistic and reliable employment and labour practices
  • Engaging in employment and labour civil court cases and tribunal advocacy, as well as Providing advice on delicate severance issues and boardroom disputes, class and collective actions, corporate governance, whistle blower claims, and more common disciplinary and grievance issues.
  • We also have a strong track record of handling high-profile disputes.
  • Managing the employment and labour law issues of multi-jurisdictional company reorganizations, mergers, and acquisitions for clients in both the private and public sectors
  • Advising on writing letters of engagement, dismissal and layoffs, pay and benefits, dealing with unions and collective bargaining agreements, separation policies, succession policies, restructuring solutions, strikes, lockouts, workplace investigations, and occupational health and safety
  • Advising on all developments and deduction in the employment and labour law sector, including Taxation, Employee Share Ownership Plans, Loans, Sacco deductions amongst others

  • Consultancy services on the new labour laws and other related labour legislation.

Our work highlights include:

  • Handling over 560 employment cases  led in court.
  • Negotiating with stakeholders and advising on a Collective Bargaining Agreement formed with respect to our client’s unionisable staff.
  • Facilitating the creation of an Employee Share Ownership Scheme from part of the authorized share capital of our client’s company of KES. 100 Million.
  • Negotiating a favourable settlement agreement to the tune of KES.
  • 15 Million for our client who had been wrongfully terminated.
  • Drafting Letters of Engagement/Employment Contracts for several of our corporate clients.