Kemsa extends staff leave days awaiting ruling on sacking case
By Anthony.Mwangi, December 21, 2021The troubled Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) has extended the compulsory leave for staff for a further 45 days following a court order that stopped the sacking of the 900 employees.
The Employment and Labour Relations Court last month barred the authority from declaring redundant or terminating the services of its staff.
Justice Ocharo Kebira issued the orders pending the hearing and determination of a petition challenging Kemsa’s plan to retrench employees.
The notice will remain in force up to January 26 next year but is likely to be extended since the hearing of the case is not expected to start until February.
Kemsa board had in October sent its workers on a 30 days compulsory leave as the agency mulled their fate.
But the plans were abandoned after the court’s ruling prompting the authority chief executive Edward Njoroge to extend the leave days pending the hearing and determination of the case.
Staff who talked to People Daily said they had resumed work and normalcy had returned at all the depots.