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Did you know that your employer is liable to pay you one million shillings as a fine for wrongfully withholding or deducting your salary?  This is according to the new Employment Amendment Act 2019 that raised the penalty from 100,000 shillings with the law also setting gratuity pay for during termination of a contract at not less than 15 days per year. The new Employment Amendment Act of 2019 amended the Employment Act of 2007, in measures aimed at introducing fairly progressive labor practices in line with current global trends. Among other major amendments, the new law stipulates that an employer who wrongfully withholds or deducts a worker’s salary is liable to be fined up to a million shillings. The amended law also delegalizes non-compete laws which are in some instances termed restrictive covenants. This will give employees rights to work for any other company or venture into businesses with similar undertakings with their previous employer. An employee who resigns or whose cont

  Francis Atwoli Retains His Seat as COTU Secretary-General  COTU delegates unanimously endorsed Atwoli unopposed after his challenger Kenya National Union of Nurses’ secretary-general Seth Panyako pulled out - Taking to his official Twitter account on Friday, April 9, Atwoli thanked all Kenyan workers for rallying behind his candidacy - Before his election to COTU, Atwoli previously served as General Secretary of the Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union. Seasoned trade unionist Francis Atwoli has retained his seat as Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary-General after he was re-elected unopposed for the 5th term in office. Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary-General Francis Atwoli.