Kenya: Employee Rights/ Labour Relations

Kenya's Court of Appeal has clarified when successive short-term employment contracts cross the line into permanent employment, examining cases where workers performed essential duties for up to 20 years under rolling temporary arrangements. The ruling establishes that courts will look beyond contract expiry dates to assess whether the underlying work is genuinely temporary or permanent in substance, creating new compliance obligations for employers using fixed-term contracts.

Recently, the chairperson and 6 members of the National Land Commission (the NLC) were sworn in by the Chief Justice, Justice Maraga. This follows the latest suit filed in the Employment and..